Pores and skin-crawling textual content messages allegedly despatched by a married Illinois highschool instructor to a 15-year-old scholar present her professing love and pining about having intercourse with him — and police say it’s proof she sexually assaulted the boy.
Christina Formella — a 30-year-old particular ed. instructor and soccer coach at Downers Grove South Excessive Faculty — allegedly informed the sufferer “I really like having intercourse with you” and different lurid traces in 2023 textual content messages discovered on the boy’s telephone Friday, court docket paperwork obtained by WGN9 present.
“I really like you so a lot mama,” the boy despatched Formella in a single textual content.
“I really like you sooooo a lot child… Despite the fact that this morning was quick, it was good,” the instructor, then 28, allegedly responded.
“I do know child it was good child so good,” the boy replied again, earlier than Formella opined about how a lot she beloved having intercourse with him.
“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 good,” the boy stated.
Police took these messages as proof that Formella was engaged in an inappropriate relationship along with her scholar and was molesting him over two years in the past — a protracted assault that allegedly started throughout a classroom tutoring session in December 2023 and continued till the boy ultimately ended it.
After police arrested Formella in her Chicago suburb Sunday, they allegedly discovered writings in her telephone’s “Notes” app that additional steered a sexual relationship along with her underage scholar, the court docket paperwork confirmed.
However Formella claimed the fabric in that app was simply an “outlet for her anxiousness,” and that any sexual materials was solely about her husband.
The now-former instructor has flat-out denied the allegations, as an alternative insisting she’s the sufferer of a body job and “blackmail” from the boy she tutored and coached — and that individuals are concentrating on her as a result of she’s “handsome.”
“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,” court docket paperwork learn.
“[Formella said] everyone comes after her as a result of she is nice trying and she or he is only a good one who cared an excessive amount of about [the boy],” the paperwork acknowledged.
The textual content messages had been discovered Friday after the boy’s mom purchased him a brand new telephone. As they had been setting it up, she logged into his iCloud account and found them.
She took her son to the Downer Grove Police station the identical day they usually reported the alleged abuse.
Formella was charged with two counts of aggravated prison sexual abuse and one depend of prison sexual assault, and was launched on the situation that she not enter the college grounds or have contact with anyone below 18.
Marriage ceremony photographs on social media seem to indicate Formella and her husband had been married as not too long ago as August. The faculty sweethearts had been seen smiling and smooching in what seemed to be a cheerful and wholesome relationship within the photographs.
She and her husband had been scholar athletes collectively at Concordia College.
Formella started instructing at Downers Grove Excessive in 2020 after incomes her instructing license in 2017. She has since been positioned on paid depart from her job.
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