The allegations from his ex-wife. https://www.wweek.com/news/2025/04/08/the-oregon-gops-new-chairman-brings-some-baggage-to-his-role/
In 2009, Cummings’ then-wife filed for divorce in Coos County. In court records, which have never been previously reported, Cummings’ ex-wife, a pastor’s daughter, said the couple met in the Portland area when she was 16 and he was 26 and an associate pastor. “On occasion, he would visit [her] when her parents were out of town and take her to hotels,” a trial memo filed by her attorney says. “He persuaded her that her parents did not truly love her as only he did, and that having sex with him at such a young age was appropriate.” The couple married in 2003, when she was 19. “From the beginning of and throughout their marriage, [Cummings] would tell [his then-wife] about his sexual fantasies with young girls while they were having sexual intercourse,” the trial memo says. “He promised not to act on those fantasies so long as [his then-wife] allowed him to do whatever he wanted in their sexual relationship.” But in a handwritten application for a restraining order coinciding with the divorce filing, the woman said her husband’s behavior spun out of control. “I was handcuffed and hit with hangers,” she wrote. “Early in the marriage, he had a whip he hit me with.” She added other allegations, including spousal rape. “He forced me to have sex with him and caused injury,” Cummings’ ex-wife wrote. “He has threatened if I don’t perform sexual activities, he will perform sexual activities on minors and he mentions them by name.” (OJP is not naming Cummings’ ex-wife because of her allegations of sexual violence.) A judge in Douglas County granted the restraining order and would later renew it. Cummings was never arrested or charged for any of the allegations in the restraining order. The court granted Cummings’ ex-wife custody of their children. When he later sought to change the terms of a parenting plan, the court required both parents to undergo psychosexual evaluations. Records show his ex-wife completed her evaluation but Cummings never came up with the payment for his.
