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“You need to delete everything,” a Latin teacher at Abington Senior High School in Abington Township, Pa., allegedly texted to a teen female student when he realized police were investigating him. “I’ve fallen in love with you,” he had said earlier, police say; “I think you should move in with me.” The teacher, Thomas Kummer, 55, has allegedly been in a sexual relationship with the student for months, starting with a summer field trip to Italy, which Kummer chaperoned. Police say they have recovered 290 text messages between Kummer and the girl, and Kummer has been arrested, charged with multiple felony charges, including corruption of minors, unlawful contact with a minor, photographing, filming, or depicting a sexual act on a computer, endangering the welfare of a child, and institutional sexual assault of a minor. Kummer is being held on $250,000 bail, and has been suspended from his job. (RC/WPVI Philadelphia, WCAU Philadelphia) ...Nothing goes here: you’ve already written your own tagline in your head.Story Update: The criminal case took nearly a year to crawl through the court system, but Kummer eventually pleaded guilty to two counts: institutional sexual assault, and corruption of a minor. He was sentenced to a whopping 11.5 to 23 months in county jail. When the case went public, another woman stepped forward to say Kummer had similarly preyed on her, but the statute of limitations had expired and that case didn’t figure in at his trial.
Original Publication Date: 28 October 2018
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 25.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 25.
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