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Elizabeth Thomas was brand new to the Kalioka School in Murray County.

She started as a freshman this year entering the public school system for the very first time.

Investigators say that she is with Tad Commons. TBIOS as a commons was a teacher.

A student reported seeing Cummins kissing Elizabeth in his classroom in late January.

Cummins told two students he's a father figure to Elizabeth.

He stole my daughter from me. She's 15. He's 50.

This is Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

Police arrested Elizabeth's mom Kimberly Thomas last year. They torched her with five counts

of child abuse and neglect. If a person was looking for a teenager that could be easily injured,

I would say two people were killed in the traffic.

It has now been weeks since a schoolgirl was abducted by her 50-year-old pervy schoolteacher.

I'm talking about Tad Cummins that little girl Elizabeth Thomas.

And still he has managed to elude not only local law enforcement but the FBI as well.

There is a national amber alert to find this girl but still nothing.

Our hopes were raised last week when there was an alleged signing in Corpus Christi, Texas.

But since that nothing are they on their way to Mexico to live as a man and wife? That is sick.

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