A married Illinois particular schooling trainer accused of molesting a 15-year-old scholar informed police that she’s being arrange by the teenager — and that she was focused for being “good looking.”
Christina Formella, 30, a trainer and soccer coach at Downers Grove South Excessive Faculty, insisted to cops she’s a “good person,” however that “everybody” comes after her due to her seems, in keeping with paperwork obtained by WGN9.
The sporty soiled blonde denied having intercourse with the teenage scholar, and stated that he accused her of getting an inappropriate relationship with him as a result of she “cared too much about him,” the paperwork present.
Formella — who married her school sweetheart in August final yr — allegedly sexually assaulted the boy earlier than the beginning of the varsity day in December 2023, DuPage County prosecutors stated.
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 stated.
“She claimed that one day, [the boy] had grabbed her phone unattended, had entered her passcode … had sent the message to his phone, had then deleted the message from her phone, and had saved it to his phone as blackmail,” the court docket paperwork learn.
The messages have 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 stated.
Formella allegedly informed the sufferer, “I love having sex with you,” in messages reportedly despatched in 2023 when she was 28, court docket paperwork present.
“I know baby I love it so much … It feels so good … It’s so passionate … It’s so intimate … It’s so perfect,” the boy reportedly responded to Formella. “I love you so so much mama.”
The connection continued till the scholar broke it off, in keeping with prosecutors.
When the messages have 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 legal sexual abuse and one rely of legal sexual assault, and was launched on the situation that she not enter the varsity grounds or have contact with anyone beneath 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 reports seriously,” Board of Training President Don Renner stated on Monday in an announcement to the board.
Formella has denied the allegations towards her and insisted she by no means had intercourse with the scholar.
She earned her instructing license in 2017, shortly after leaving Concordia College Chicago, the place she and her husband met as scholar athletes. He performed baseball, she performed soccer.
Formella had been instructing at Downers Grove Excessive since 2020, in keeping with her LinkedIn.
New bodycam footage reveals Formella breaking down in tears throughout her arrest on March 16, in keeping with a video revealed by the YouTube channel Ape Huncho.
“I feel like I’m gonna throw up,” she stated, as she sobbed into her cuffed fingers and pulled her knees as much as her chest.
Formella’s subsequent court docket look is scheduled for April 14.
