Asheigh Banfield is going to talk to a former student of TC, Destiny Parrish.
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She gave an interview to news channel 4 also she said they use to hang out in his class and that he never had good boundaries with the students. She also felt he may have been grooming her in 2011
http://www.wsmv.com/story/34977042/...udent-discusses-close-friendship-with-teacher
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Destany Parrish says when she was at Culleoka Unit School, her health sciences teacher Tad Cummins was not just an educator and a mentor, she also considered him a close friend.
"I know that I trusted him with everything that I had when I was in school," Parrish said.
Parrish's parents were going through a divorce at the time, and for her, Cummins was always a listening ear.
It was 2011. Parrish was 15 at the time. She said Cummins kept in touch years after she graduated. She had planned to visit his classroom last October, but ended up running into him at a grocery store briefly last fall
Everybody loved Tad," said Parrish, who is now 20. "He put inspirational quotes on his board. He was still doing it when I went back and visited him some time last year. He was always just really friendly. I never thought for a second that it was anything else."
But there was at least one incident which now seems like a red flag. Cummins' classroom had become a popular lunchtime hangout spot for some students. Parrish said a large number of students would go to his class, which they considered a safe place to do whatever they wanted.
"He told us all one day that the office had gotten on to him and that we all had to go back to the lunch room because that's where we're supposed to be anyway," Parrish recalled. "Everybody left and I got my bag and got ready to leave, and he said the office hadn't said anything to him, he just didn't want that many kids in his room. It just ended up being he and I chilling in there. I would go there after school."
Parrish said she would go to Cummins' room after school and he would often take her to services at the Destiny Church in Columbia. Thomas would also attend Destiny Church with the family of Elizabeth Thomas.
Parrish maintains things never got inappropriate with Cummins.
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