The Illinois instructor accused of molesting a 15-year-old scholar claimed to cops that the boy was a “stalker” and that new her husband knew all about his so-called obsession along with her after she was arrested.
However, Christina Formella’s ex school baseball participant partner stated he was completely at midnight concerning the boy, in line with court docket paperwork.
Formella, 30, of the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove, tried to play off the allegations that she had a months-long relationship with the teenager — which he stated culminated in them having intercourse in a classroom — as a boy obsessive about a instructor as a result of she’s “good wanting,” in line with the docs filed by DuPage County prosecutors.
“All through her interview, [Formella] tried to color [accuser] as her ‘stalker’ and claimed that her husband was conscious,” the paperwork learn.
Nevertheless it was all information to Michael Formella, who married his school sweetheart Christina final summer time about six months after the alleged abuse, in line with the docs.
“Oddly sufficient, her husband instructed detectives that he is aware of nothing about [accuser] past his standing as a soccer participant,” investigators wrote.
In line with torrid diary entries that prosecutors discovered on Formella’s cellphone, she additionally appeared accountable the teenager for “ruining” her marriage, in line with the docs.
“I went again and display screen shotted each, single, time that I stated we must always break up till after the marriage and after you graduated. And each single fking time you got here again and satisfied me it could be fantastic,” she wrote. “YOU ruined us. I warned you we must always by no means have began relationship a protracted lengthy lengthy fking time in the past and also you fuel lit me and satisfied me it was fantastic.”
“I’m fking mad I let a 16 yr previous fk with me like that … in the long run, we each misplaced. You misplaced the woman who would have caught with you thru thick and skinny,” she wrote, later expressing hope in a bit titled “Manifestations” that the boy would attain again out to her to fix their relationship.
“We WILL be in one another’s lives without end. We can love one another whereas additionally residing our personal lives,” she allegedly wrote.
The assault allegedly happened in a Downers Grove Excessive classroom in December 2023 when Formella was a 28-year-old soccer coach and particular training instructor on the faculty.
She had been the boy’s soccer coach and was giving him personal tutoring periods when the pair allegedly started messaging one another — which prosecutors say rapidly escalated into inappropriate conversations, and culminated in a sexual encounter in a classroom one morning, in line with docs.
The alleged affair was found after the boy’s mom not too long ago discovered textual content messages on his cellphone from Formella wherein she professed her love for him and talked about intercourse they’d had — together with one message the place she stated “I like having intercourse with you.”
After her arrest, Formella claimed to police the boy planted the messages on her cellphone to “blackmail” her “as a result of she is nice wanting.”
Regardless of her allegations of stalking, prosecutors famous Formella by no means reported any inappropriate conduct to highschool directors or the boy’s mother and father — and that she additionally had shirtless pictures from his social media on her cellphone, and textual content messages with folks the place she “spontaneously” introduced his identify up, in line with docs.
And whereas she denied ever having intercourse, Formella later fessed as much as having a relationship with the boy, prosecutors stated.
“Defendant admitted that she knew her relationship was improper, however she was unable to cease it as a result of she cares an excessive amount of about him,” paperwork learn.
Formella instructed investigators these writings have been merely an outlet for nervousness, and that any references to intercourse have been about her husband.
Prosecutors requested that Formalla be denied pretrial launch, however she was let go on the situation that she not enter faculty grounds or have contact with anyone underneath 18.
She faces two counts of aggravated felony sexual assault, and is due in court docket on April 14.
Formella started instructing at Downers Grove in 2020, and has been positioned on paid go away from the college.
She performed soccer at Essential South Excessive Faculty in Park Ridge, and went on to play for Concordia College the place she dated her future husband.
Images from their latest marriage ceremony confirmed the pair dancing and kissing lovingly whereas family members regarded on and cheered.
Formella was driving along with her husband when police pulled her over and detained her over the rape allegations — and he appeared baffled by what was taking place.
“Is she going someplace?” he requested cops as they took her away.
