Alissa McCommon, Covington, Tennessee teacher who got pregnant raping 12 year old boy & having his baby sentenced to 25 years jail. Educator had previously threatened killing herself if then 12 year old boy broke off the relationship.
An elementary teacher who got pregnant after raping a 12 year old student in Tennessee, then going on to have his baby was on Friday sentenced to 25 years jail.
Alissa McCommon, 38, who is thought to have sexually abused up to up to 21 victims, between the ages of 12 and 17, will also be required to register as a sex offender after taking a plea deal ahead of her upcoming January, 2025, trial where she’d faced a 23 count indictment against her.
The former fourth grade teacher at Charger Academy – an elementary school in Covington, Tennessee, pleaded guilty to one count each of rape of a child and the child protection act, and multiple counts of statutory rape by an authority figure, aggravated statutory rape, sexual exploitation of a minor by electronic means, and solicitation of a minor: aggravated statutory rape.
Teacher, 38, threatened to kill herself if 12 year old boy broke off relationship
The former teacher will also be required to undergo community supervision for life as part of her plea, and she will not be eligible for parole, according to Fox 13 Memphis.
McCommon, who had been initially suspended (without pay) following allegations against her, before ultimately resigning, is also not allowed to have contact with her victims, nor her newborn child, who is in the custody of the grandmother. McCommon’s teaching license has also been revoked.
McCommon’s child was confirmed through DNA testing to belong to one of the victims.
The 38 year old, herself a mother of two young children, had called the father of her child nearly 200 times, played videos games with him, sent sexual photos to him on Snapchat and even threatened to kill herself if he broke off the relationship, according to WREG.
Five of her victims testified against her, with the teacher ‘getting to the children’ by befriending their mothers, according to WREG.
An investigation into McCommon was announced in 2023 after a 16-year-old boy told police she had performed oral sex on him when he was 12, according to ABC 24.
McCommon was arrested on September 8, 2023, but posted her $25,000 bail the next day on the promise she wouldn’t contact the victim or any minors.
Victims on both sides
Weeks later, police were informed she had contacted the baby daddy using a different phone number and she was re-arrested on September 28.
McCommon told the victim he would ‘regret doing this’ and admitted to having a sexual encounter with him.
The threatening phone call to the 12-year-old was recorded, and played aloud in court at a hearing in October 2023.
Her lawyer had insisted the voice was not hers and that the text messages could have come from anyone.
‘It’s not a registered phone, it’s just some random number,’ her lawyer told Fox News prior to her guilty plea.
The educator’s own two children were withdrawn from school last year after they were bullied following their mother’s arrest.
‘There are victims, arguably, on both sides of this case, regardless of her guilt or innocence,’ her attorney Jere Mason said at the time. ‘She’s got two minor children herself.
‘They’ve had to pull them out of school, and they’re experiencing some ridicule.’
