Married fourth-grade teacher is accused of raping a 12-year-old boy by asking his friends for sex

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Tennessee fourth-grade teacher Alissa McCommon was arrested for allegedly raping a 12-year-old boy and attempting to lure others into her web.

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According to police, McCommon, 38, was arrested outside her home by the Covington Police Department. She is accused of sexually abusing her young former student in her home in 2021.

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She allegedly admitted to inappropriate contact with her students. McCommon was suspended without pay in August after a concerned parent came forward.

Afterwards, several other students claimed that the Charger Academy teacher had befriended them online. McCommon even played video games with the kids.

According to police, as an added bonus, the mother-of-two sent her new young friends inappropriate photos – and asked them to have sex with them.

“It’s unbearable. It is unspeakable and 100% preventable. I think that’s why investigators and we are so passionate about making sure the victims are OK,” Police Chief Donna Turner told WREG.

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McCollom is being held in the Tipton County Jail on a $25,000 bond and has maintained her innocence.

Her lawyer Jere Mason said: “We believe this is a witch hunt on social media and that is frustrating for us.”

McCommon is scheduled to appear in court on October 13.

Meanwhile, a school district in Southern California has been ordered to spend an additional $2.25 million to resolve a recent lawsuit involving a teacher who was impregnated by one of the two students she was accused of sexually abusing.

To date, the Redlands Unified School District has donated $8.25 million to the victims of teacher seducer Laura Whitehurst since her arrest in 2013. In 2016, the district paid $6 million to the boy who impregnated Whitehurst.

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In 2013, Whitehurst confessed to police that she had sex with the boy 10 to 15 times in her classroom and apartment.

Now another student claims he was sexually assaulted by Whitehurst at Redlands High School in 2007 and 2008 when he was 14 years old.

The school board declined to comment.

In both cases, the victims claimed the school district was equally aware of their sexual relationships with students but did nothing and failed to warn their families.

Whitehurst taught English and served as a soccer coach at the school. She gave birth to their child in 2014 after the boy was 16 years old for a year of worry.

She served six months in prison and is registered as a sex offender as part of a plea bargain. Redlands paid, but placed all the blame on Whitehurst.

Whitehurst told reporters when she was first arrested that she was “just a well-groomed American girl.”

Since then, two other students have come forward and claimed they also had sexual relations with the teacher.

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