A married Illinois particular training instructor accused of molesting a 15-year-old pupil informed police that she’s being arrange by the teenager — and that she was focused for being “good wanting.”
Christina Formella, 30, a instructor and soccer coach at Downers Grove South Excessive Faculty, insisted to cops she’s a “good individual,” however that “everyone” comes after her due to her seems, based on paperwork obtained by WGN9.
The sporty soiled blonde denied having intercourse with the teenage pupil, and mentioned that he accused her of getting an inappropriate relationship with him as a result of she “cared an excessive amount of about him,” the paperwork present.
Formella — who married her faculty sweetheart in August final yr — allegedly sexually assaulted the boy earlier than the beginning of the varsity day in December 2023, DuPage County prosecutors mentioned.
She claimed that the scholar had damaged into her telephone and used her quantity to ship the inappropriate messages to her as a “blackmail” plot, investigators mentioned.
“She claimed that in the future, [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,” the courtroom paperwork learn.
The messages had been found final month by the sufferer’s mom after she purchased him a brand new telephone and linked it to his iCloud account, DuPage County prosecutors mentioned.
Formella allegedly informed the sufferer, “I really like having intercourse with you,” in messages reportedly despatched in 2023 when she was 28, courtroom paperwork present.
“I do know child I find it irresistible a lot … It feels so good … It’s so passionate … It’s so intimate … It’s so excellent,” the boy reportedly responded to Formella. “I really like you so a lot mama.”
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The connection continued till the scholar broke it off, based on prosecutors.
When the messages had been found, the mom took her son to Downers Grove police station and reported the alleged abuse.
Formella was charged with two counts of aggravated felony sexual abuse and one rely of felony sexual assault, and was launched on the situation that she not enter the varsity grounds or have contact with anyone underneath 18.
She has additionally been positioned on paid depart from her job.
College students have been urged to come back ahead to police or the varsity in the event that they noticed something harmful or uncommon, and authorities will take “all studies severely,” Board of Schooling President Don Renner mentioned on Monday in an announcement to the board.
Formella has denied the allegations in opposition to her and insisted she by no means had intercourse with the scholar.
She earned her educating license in 2017, shortly after leaving Concordia College Chicago, the place she and her husband met as pupil athletes. He performed baseball, she performed soccer.
Formella had been educating at Downers Grove Excessive since 2020, based on her LinkedIn.
New bodycam footage exhibits Formella breaking down in tears throughout her arrest on March 16, based on a video revealed by the YouTube channel Ape Huncho.
“I really feel like I’m gonna throw up,” she mentioned, as she sobbed into her cuffed arms and pulled her knees as much as her chest.
Formella’s subsequent courtroom look is scheduled for April 14.
