Tennessee teacher Alissa McCommon who raped student, 12, inside her home and got pregnant, sentenced to 25 years in prison
A former Tennessee teacher who raped a 12-year-old boy inside her home and became pregnant was sentenced to 25 years in prison for her heinous sex crimes on Friday as one of her victim’s families told the once-trusted educator to “burn in hell.”Alissa McCommon, a fourth-grade teacher in Tipton County, pleaded guilty to a slew of sex charges related to five of her possible 21 potential victims.McCommon, previously accused of assaulting a former student of hers in 2021, pleaded guilty to one count of rape of a child, statutory rape, sexual exploitation of minors and solicitation of minors.McCommon was sentenced to 25 years in prison after Circuit Court Judge Blake Neill ordered all sentences to run concurrently with each other without the possibility of parole.McCommon will have to register as a Violent Sex Offender after her sentence and was ordered to not have contact with any of her victims.Her teaching license was also revoked.The ex-Charger Academy educator formed relationships with the preteens she met while in her class before playing video games, following them on social media and befriending their mothers to exploit her position of authority, WREG reported.McCommon was fond of one student, a 12-year-old, whom she called over 200 times and sent explicit photos to over Snapchat.In one message, McCommon threatened the boy that she would kill herself if he broke off the relationship, the outlet reported.An investigation opened into McCommon in 2021 and a mother reported inappropriate texts from the teacher to her son in 2023.McCommon was suspended from the school without pay on Aug.24, 2023.She was arrested on Sept.
8, 2023, on a 23-count indictment with multiple sexual offenses against several students, Tipton County District Attorney Mark Davidson said Friday,She bonded out but was back behind bars less than a month later after she violated her release conditions by communicating with one of her victims.At the same time, McCommon claimed to one of the bo...