Ex-teacher pleads guilty to sex crimes

COVINGTON, Tenn. (WMC) – A former Tipton County teacher charged with multiple accounts to sex-related charges pleaded guilty in court on Friday.

alisa McCommon was first arrested in September 2023. after police said he had sexual relations with at least one former student and admitted to communicating inappropriately with multiple others.

she got pregnant of one of his victims and has since given birth.

McCommon pleaded guilty to the following charges:

• child rape
• Rape by an authority figure (2 counts)
• Aggravated statutory rape (3 counts)
• Exploitation of a minor by electronic device (3 counts)
• Petition for a minor (2 counts)
• Violation of the Child Protection Law

McCommon was sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to have lifetime community supervision, revocation of her teaching license, no contact with any victim and no contact with her young son.

You will also be required to register as a violent sex offender.

Relatives of the victims spoke after court.

McCommon’s statement comes about two weeks before she stood trial Jan. 7 on the multi-count indictment.

In court, Deputy District Attorney Joni Reagan recounted the events of 2021 and detailed the disturbing sexual relationships McCommon had with five victims. Some were his students, one was a person he met at a party and another he met while playing Fortnite.

ADA Reagan also shared elaborate details about the two-year sexual relationship she had with the first victim, identified as AB, by whom she became pregnant.

“Without a doubt, this was an intense case; it took a team,” Reagan said. “Stephanie Drawn assisted me on this case, along with Assistant Attorney General Amy Weirich. We all work together on this. We work very hard. “It involved a lot of communication with the families of the victims, particularly the family of the child, the child who was identified as AB in the indictment.”

All other charges will be dismissed.

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