Summerville man pleads guilty to sexual abuse of two teen girls

SUMMERVILLE, Georgia (WDEF) – A man in northwest Georgia has pleaded guilty to numerous sex abuse charges involving a pair of 15 year old girls.

The victims were an adopted daughter of Christopher Mark Tidmore and her friend.

Summerville Police began the investigation when the friend accused Tidmore of sexual abuse during a sleepover at the home.

Investigators say they found Tidmore recorded multiple sexual encounters with the daughter on his cell phone.

He pleaded guilty to Aggravated Sexual Battery, Aggravated Child Molestation, Aggravated Sodomy, Incest, Statutory Rape, and several counts of Sexual Exploitation of Children.

Tidmore was sentenced to 38 years in prison without the possibility of parole.

District Attorney Clayton M. Fuller said “Evil walks among us every day.”

“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist — but this case proved otherwise. This monster stole the innocence of children,
and Detective Josh Strauss hunted him down, pulled evil into the light, and made sure he will spend the majority of his days behind iron bars.”