Tennesse teacher who kidnaped 15-year-old is girl captured as girl reunites with family

The teenager was kidnapped by her 50-year-old former school teacher Tad Cummins on March 13th and since then, no one saw her again. After 5 weeks on the run she and Cummins were spotted at a remote cabin located in northern California near the Oregon border where they were arrested and the girl was released to her family.

After Elizabeth was found, police disclosed her condition as "healthy and unharmed, but their main concern is the state of her emotional and mental well-being.

Meanwhile when Elizabeth was asked to see her father upon her final return to Tennessee, he said. "It was really great to have her tell her she loved me," he said.

He said his daughter had told authorities that she was curious and scared that her father will be extremely angry with her and will be scolding her for disappearing. Because according to her , the alleged crazy teacher told her so too. 'There’s no way you can go home because your dad is just going to be mad at you,'" Thomas said.

The father added that he believes the said Cummins was fully aware of the search for him and his daughter, but he wasn’t sure if his teenage daughter knew before she was found the  long search effort to people made to find them. "Tad was apparently aware of all the flyers and all the things he saw," the father said. "I’m not sure of the extent he let her be exposed to that."

Her father Anthony Thomas “my 15-year-old daughter has changed physically and she has lost a lot of weight unlike before What we want to see when we look at her is the child we knew, she may not be exactly the person she was because there’s a lot of experiences she’s had because she has now had experiences that may have changed her”

According to the police, the arrested Cummins who gave in without much drama, he is now facing charges of aggravated kidnapping and sexual contact with a minor. Besides that, he also faces a federal charge of transportation of a minor across state lines with the intent of having sexual intercourse, which has been filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee and is expected to make his first court appearance at 2 p.m. Monday in federal court in Sacramento. This charge carries a minimum sentence of 10 years imprisonment with no compensation.