The married Illinois particular ed trainer accused of molesting a 15-year-old scholar allegedly started messaging the boy on a digital faculty platform – which rapidly escalated to a sexual encounter throughout a tutoring session in a classroom, new court docket paperwork reveal.
Downer Grove Excessive College trainer Christina Formella, who was additionally the alleged sufferer’s soccer coach, began tutoring the boy in personal periods after he broke his collarbone, paperwork obtained by TMZ confirmed.
She began sending him flirtatious messages on a faculty messaging platform, and after giving him her telephone quantity so they may play a recreation collectively, Formella allegedly started sending salacious texts.
The pair allegedly Facetimed one another as they started growing emotions for each other – till one morning in December 2023 they allegedly had intercourse in a classroom earlier than faculty, the paperwork mentioned.
The then-28-year-old trainer shut the door behind them, in accordance with prosecutors, after which they started to undress one another earlier than having intercourse.
That was the one time the 2 had intercourse, in accordance with the paperwork, with each later telling one another that they’d performed one thing mistaken. They didn’t converse after February 2024.
Formella has claimed that she is the sufferer of blackmail – telling police she was being focused for being “handsome.”
“She claimed that someday, [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,” beforehand obtained court docket paperwork confirmed.
“[Formella said] everyone comes after her as a result of she is sweet wanting and he or she is only a good one that cared an excessive amount of about [the boy],” the paperwork added.
The alleged affair was found in mid-March when the boy’s mom was organising a brand new telephone for him and noticed inappropriate texts with Formella.
“I like you sooooo a lot child… Despite the fact that this morning was quick, it was good,” one among Formella’s alleged texts learn, “I like having intercourse with you.”
She was arrested on March 16, simply days after the boy’s mom discovered the messages.
Police bodycam footage from the arrest confirmed Formella visibly shocked after police pulled her automotive over and detained her.
The trainer burst into breathless tears after studying the costs in opposition to her. “Oh my God. What the f–okay?” she mentioned, holding her face in her fingers. “I really feel like I’m gonna throw up.”
Formella was launched after her arrest on the situation that she haven’t any contact with minors. She faces two counts of aggravated prison sexual assault.
She was positioned on paid go away from Downers Grove Excessive, the place she’s taught since 2020.
A yearbook headshot reveals the alleged perv with a large smile years earlier than the sick crime.
Formella performed soccer at Predominant South Excessive College in Park Ridge, after which joined Concordia College’s staff as a defensive participant.
She went on to marry her faculty sweetheart, a star baseball participant on the faculty.
Pictures from their wedding ceremony — simply final summer time — present the pair smooching in a pool surrounded by their family members.
