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Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: CLOSE The search for a missing 15-year-old Tennessee girl ended Thursday after she was located in northern California, authorities said. Ayrika Whitney/USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee 
  
 A cabin near tiny Cecilville, Calif., where authorities say Tad Cummins, 50, of Columbia, Tenn., held Elizabeth Thomas, 15, of Culleoka, Tenn., before authorities discovered them. (Photo: Greg Barnette, Redding (Calif.) Record Searchlight) 
  
 BLACK BEAR RANCH, Calif. — For more than 10 days, a remote California commune unknowingly played host to a Tennessee teen and the man accused of abducting her. 
  
 Now the 40 or so members of the Black Bear Ranch intentional community in Siskiyou County are reeling from the deception and looking at ways to prevent repeat incidents, spokeswoman Karuna Greenberg said in a statement. 
  
 Missing teen Elizabeth Thomas, 15, of Culleoka, Tenn., and her one-time health science teacher, Tad Cummins, 50, of Columbia, Tenn., showed up unexpectedly April 6 calling themselves Joanna and John, ages 22 and 44. Greenberg said the ranch welcomed the couple though unexpected visitors are discouraged. 
  
 "While at the ranch they spun a convincing story that we now know to be false," Greenburg said. 
  
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 The ranch has no newspaper delivery nor Internet service, so residents didn't know about the manhunt for Cummins nor the Amber alert issued March 13 for Elizabeth, the ranch spokeswoman said. The two disappeared as the Maury County school board were conducting an investigation into their relationship after a student spotted the two kissing at Culleoka Unit School, about 10 miles southeast of Columbia. 
  
 By April 17, "these two visitors were told they were not a fit with the ranch and were asked to leave," Greenburg said. 
  
 Elizabeth Thomas, 15, of Culleoka, Tenn., was found almost 2,000 miles from home April 20, 2017, after leaving with her 50-year-old teacher more than a month before. (Photo: Tennessee Bureau of Investigation) 
  
 Siskiyou County sheriff's deputies found Cummins and Elizabeth three days later after a tip from Cecilville, Calif. The caretaker of a remote cabin and his neighbor thought Cummins, who said he lost everything in a fire in Colorado and needed a place to stay, was acting a bit strange, so they told the sheriff; they had seen an article on the Internet about the search. 
  
  
  
 Cecilville is less than 10 miles southeast of the ranch as the crow files, but the mountain roads are so winding that it would take more than an hour to get to the community, which has fewer than two dozen residents. Black Bear Ranch is also less than 10 miles east of Forks of Salmon, Calif., its official mailing address and nearest post office, but residents need more than an hour to get to that town of fewer than 200 people. 
  
  
  
 Tad Cummins, 50, of Columbia, Tenn., was arrested April 20, 2017, in Siskiyou County, Calif., after more than a monthlong manhunt and charged with transportation of a minor across state lines for the purpose of criminal sexual intercourse, a federal crime. (Photo: Siskiyou County (Calif.) Sheriff's Office) 
  
 Cellphone service at both the ranch and the remote cabin where Cummins and Elizabeth were found is spotty at best and generally nonexistent, authorities say. 
  
 "We were shocked to learn they were actually a fugitive teacher from Tennessee and his allegedly captive student, on the run from law enforcement," Greenberg said. "We are extremely glad that Cummins was caught, and hope that Elizabeth Thomas can begin to heal from this terrible incident." 
  
 Black Bear Ranch is evaluating its open-door policy and has decided to stop accepting visitors until it makes a thorough review of its practices, Greenburg said. 
  
 "Black Bear is committed to equality, safety, and nonviolence," Greenberg said. "We stand firmly and explicitly against all forms of exploitation. We do not harbor fugitives, runaways or known criminals." 
  
 The commune was established in 1968 when Richard Marley came from San Francisco with 30 friends and converted a former gold mine into an off-the-grid community. 
  
 Investigators have not said how Cummins came to know about Black Bear Ranch, but another longtime commune called The Farm is located less than 30 miles from Columbia near Summertown, Tenn. It was established in 1971. 
  
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 Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/04/28/black-bear-ranch-commune-fugitives/307308001/ ||||| Friday marks one week since Elizabeth Thomas was reunited with her family after her alleged abduction at the hands of former teacher Tad Cummins. 
  
 Now, as the 15-year-old receives counseling and Cummins, 50, sits in jail awaiting extradition, details are emerging on her experience when she was missing for 38 days. 
  
 Elizabeth and Cummins were allegedly in Northern California for a week and a half, authorities believe, spending a few days and nights in Berkley and Black Bear Ranch Commune before ending up in a cabin in rural Cecilville, more than 2,000 miles from Tennessee. 
  
 Family attorney Jason Whatley says the cabin could be described as a four-walled shelter without running water or electricity or heat piping. Elizabeth and Cummins at times ate wildflowers to survive, which led to Elizabeth losing a significant amount of weight. 
  
 Among some personal possessions found in the cabin were toilet paper, food items and a beer bottle, Siskiyou County Sheriff Jon Lopey previously told PEOPLE. 
  
 The lack of food showed, Whatley says. When he met Elizabeth last week, she was physically and emotionally “fragile.” 
  
 “I was so shocked when I saw her first,” Whatley says. “I didn’t know it but she was even smaller than she was used to be being. She [had] lost a lot [of weight].” 
  
 Whatley also says the teen also appeared to not have shower or bathed the entire time she was gone, asking to take a shower as soon as she was rescued. 
  
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 Griffin Barry, the caretaker of the cabin who called authorities when he recognized the pair from the ongoing AMBER Alert they were the subject of, says he gave the couple food in exchange for manual labor around the property. 
  
 According to Barry, Cummins passed himself and Elizabeth off as a couple named “John” and “Joanna” and said Elizabeth was 24. Whatley says Cummins would do most of the talking, with Elizabeth whispering in his ear. Barry tells PEOPLE he only heard Elizabeth speak once. 
  
 “One time I had given him food that night and [she] was like, ‘Thank you,’ ” Barry recalls about giving Elizabeth rice and clementines. “She got excited over some food.” 
  
 Clothing-Optional Commune and ‘Damaging’ Treatment 
  
 Whatley says that Cummins “treated her like a child at times. I think most people would agree that the combination of treating her like a child and an adult woman in the same relationship, like a light switched [and] turned it on and off, [is] damaging.” 
  
 Before settling at the remote cabin Whatley say Cummins brought Elizabeth to Black Bear Ranch, a clothing-optional commune. Whatley says Elizabeth was for a few days was in the presence of nude men before they pair headed to Cecilville, where they met Barry. 
  
 According to the commune’s website, Elizabeth and Cummins were “asked to leave” by residents after a few days. 
  
 “Residents had no access to national news and had no idea who this couple was, [their] ages or their history in relation to the charges that have now surfaced,” a statement reads. 
  
 The statement adds that the commune “does not condone the acts that Tad Cummins has been charged with.” 
  
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 Whatley says when she reunited with her family, Elizabeth was “quiet,” but he says it was obvious the weeks allegedly with Cummins had taken an emotional toll. 
  
 “She’s had moments of being carefree and fun, but [at the same time] she’s very, very fragile and that’s something the family is watching very carefully.” 
  
 On Monday, Cummins’ public defender, Benjamin Galloway, issued a statement defending his client, claiming he has “no history of violence and no criminal history whatsoever,” and that he didn’t coerce, force or threaten Elizabeth, Cummins’ former student at the Culleoka Unit School in Maury County, Tennessee. 
  
 Cummins — who authorities said faces kidnapping and sex crime charges in California and Tennessee as well as a federal charge — “surrendered without incident and has been cooperative with investigators,” Galloway said. “He looks forward to returning to Tennessee as soon as possible to answer the charges against him.” 
  
 Whatley says any suggestion that Elizabeth might have gone willingly is “amazingly absurd.” 
  
 “This is classic grooming and manipulation,” he adds. “And I predict this case will be studied years in the future about how authority figures like Tad Cummins can mess up young children who believe their lies and are manipulated into doing things they would never do.” 
  
 Cummins appeared in federal court in Sacramento, California, on Monday afternoon. He faces one federal count of transporting a minor with the intent to engage in sexual activity across state lines. 
  
 He has not entered a plea and was detained as a flight risk. 
  
 He will be transported to Tennessee “as soon as possible,” a U.S. Attorney’s Office spokeswoman said. |||||
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One thing seems to have overshadowed Elizabeth Thomas' 38 days spent with her former teacher: hunger. The 15-year-old had resorted to eating wildflowers at times and had lost a significant amount of weight, the family lawyer tells People. "I was so shocked when I saw her," says Jason Whatley, who added that she appeared unshowered as well. The caretaker of the remote cabin in Cecilville, California, where she and Tad Cummins were found by police said the single time he heard the teen talk was when she thanked him for rice and clementines he brought the pair in exchange for manual labor. “She got excited over some food," he said. Police say Cummins, who awaits extradition to Tennessee on kidnapping charges, and Thomas spent 10 days at a nearby remote commune prior to moving into the cabin, which had no electricity or running water. Officials at the commune, Black Bear Ranch, say they're appalled they were duped by Cummins' lies but say they have no access to the internet or newspapers and had seen no stories about the missing teen, reports the Redding Record Searchlight. At any rate, after 10 days, "these two visitors were told they were not a fit with the ranch and were asked to leave," says a spokesperson. The commune is re-evaluating its open-door policy in the wake of the incident. Whatley tells People Elizabeth was exposed to nude men at the clothing-optional commune. (Tad Cummins' sister says he explained his reasoning to her.)