The married Illinois particular schooling instructor accused of molesting one in all her teen college students broke down in heaving sobs after studying the costs she confronted, intense new bodycam footage of her arrest reveals.
Christina Formella, 30, gasped for air and cried as she was positioned at the back of a Downers Grove Police automotive on March 16, based on arrest footage printed by the YouTube channel Ape Huncho.
“Oh my God. What the f–ok?” Formella repeated, sobbing into her cuffed palms along with her knees pulled as much as her chest.
“I really feel like I’m gonna throw up,” she mentioned, and officers rushed off to seek out her a bag and towels in case she obtained sick.
Formella, a particular schooling instructor at Downers Grove South Excessive College, had simply been detained over allegations that she molested a 15-year-old scholar she tutored and coached in soccer two years earlier.
The 2 allegedly exchanged texts professing love for each other — and speaking explicitly about intercourse that they had in a campus classroom.
“I really like you sooooo a lot child… Despite the fact that this morning was quick, it was excellent,” Formella, who was 28 on the time, allegedly texted the boy.
Their texts have been found days earlier than her arrest because the boy’s mom was organising a brand new telephone for him — prompting him to admit the alleged relationship that he says he ended, and report it to police.
Formella was pulled over by police in her Chicago suburb as she was driving along with her husband, and appeared confused when she was requested to step out of the automotive.
“You may simply seize no matter you want,” a police officer mentioned after confirming her identification.
“No matter I want?” she requested, whereas her husband requested, “Is she going someplace?”
“Yeah, we’re going to clarify all the things to you,” the officer responded, telling Formella that she was the topic of an investigation and wanted to be taken to the station in handcuffs.
“I’m, like, so scared,” a clearly shocked Formella mentioned as she was cuffed after which put at the back of a squad automotive.
“Is my husband coming with?” she mentioned because the automotive drove off. “Am I in bother? I’m so misplaced proper now,” she added, whereas officers instructed her they might solely say she was being detained for an investigation and that she’d be taught extra when she obtained to the station.
Throughout her interview with police, Formella claimed she was being blackmailed by her accuser — and insisted she was being focused as a result of she was “handsome.”
“She claimed that at some point, [the boy] had grabbed her telephone unattended, had entered her passcode … had despatched the message to his telephone, had then deleted the message from her telephone, and had saved it to his telephone as blackmail,” based on court docket paperwork from her arrest.
“[Formella said] everyone comes after her as a result of she is sweet trying and he or she is only a good one who cared an excessive amount of about [the boy],” they added.
She was charged with two counts of aggravated felony sexual assault and was launched on the situation that she not enter college grounds or have contact with anyone below 18.
Formella was additionally positioned on paid depart from her job.
Wedding ceremony photographs on social media present she and her husband — who was a scholar athlete along with her at Concordia College — have been married as not too long ago as August.
She had been educating at Downers Grove Excessive since 2020 and earned her educating license in 2017.
