Illinois Trainer
Cops Allege Classroom Intercourse With Pupil
Printed April 3, 2025 1:00 AM PDT
An Illinois trainer accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old scholar she tutored allegedly started messaging him utilizing a digital college platform, which prosecutors say ramped up into flirtatious texts … and a sexual encounter inside a classroom.
Christina Formella first acquired along with the coed in 2023 when she was his freshman soccer coach at Downers Grove South Excessive Faculty … this based on court docket paperwork, obtained by TMZ.
The docs say Formella began privately tutoring the alleged sufferer after he broke his collarbone. Prosecutors say Formella then gave him her quantity so they might play “8-Ball Pool” on their telephones. The pair then allegedly exchanged provocative texts, adopted by a FaceTime assembly between the coed and Formella.
In accordance with the docs, the trainer and her scholar started having emotions for one another, which got here to a head at some point in December 2023, after they met in a classroom on the college earlier than lessons started. Prosecutors say Formella shut the door, and began kissing the sufferer, who reportedly fondled her, and she or he eliminated his garments. They each allegedly took off her leggings, and he placed on a condom and had intercourse with Formella. He was 15 and she or he was 28 on the time, prosecutors allege.
The docs say each later acknowledged to one another what they did was incorrect, they usually by no means had intercourse once more, and spoke for the final time in February 2024.
Cops say the coed’s mother discovered the lurid textual content messages on her son’s telephone and reported them to the police division, which began the felony investigation that led to Formella’s arrest the subsequent day, on March 16, 2025.
Prosecutors charged Formella with aggravated felony sexual abuse and felony sexual assault. Formella is at the moment on administrative go away from the college.
