Former teacher at Hayward Catholic school ordered to trial on child molestation charges

By Malaika Fraley
San Jose Mercury News
September 09, 2014

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_26501172/former-teacher-at-hayward-catholic-school-ordered-trial

HAYWARD -- A former staff member at a Hayward private school was order to trial Tuesday on 10 felony sex crime charges for allegedly sexually abusing a student over a two-year period.

Oakland resident Mia Cummings, who turns 30 Thursday, had been an after-school care assistant at All Saints Catholic School since 2005 when she was arrested late last year and jailed in lieu of $800,000 bail.

Alameda County deputy district attorney Samantha Kim said that Cummings first began being inappropriate with the male victim through Facebook contact.

Cummings is accused of sexually abusing the child beginning in December 2011 when he was 12 through 2013. Police began investigating her based on a report from another staff member.

At a preliminary hearing in Hayward on Tuesday, judge found there was enough evidence to try Cummings on five counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 14, three counts of oral copulation on a child under 16, and one count each of continuous sexual abuse of a child and contacting a minor for sex, Kim said.