Newly revealed texts show skin-crawling messages married Illinois teacher allegedly sent 15-year-old student shes accused of raping: Love having sex with you
Skin-crawling text messages allegedly sent by a married Illinois high school teacher to a 15-year-old student show her professing love and pining about having sex with him — and police say it’s proof she sexually assaulted the boy.Christina Formella — a 30-year-old special ed.teacher and soccer coach at Downers Grove South High School — allegedly told the victim “I love having sex with you” and other lurid lines in 2023 text messages found on the boy’s phone Friday, court documents obtained by WGN9 show.“I love you so so much mama,” the boy sent Formella in one text.“I love you sooooo much baby… Even though this morning was short, it was perfect,” the teacher, then 28, allegedly responded.“I know baby it was perfect baby so perfect,” the boy replied back, before Formella opined about how much she loved having sex with him.
“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 said.Police took those messages as evidence that Formella was engaged in an inappropriate relationship with her student and was molesting him over two years ago — a protracted assault that allegedly began during a classroom tutoring session in December 2023 and continued until the boy eventually ended it.After police arrested Formella in her Chicago suburb Sunday, they allegedly found writings in her phone’s “Notes” app that further suggested a sexual relationship with her underage student, the court documents showed.But Formella claimed the material in that app was just an “outlet for her anxiety,” and that any sexual material was only about her husband.The now-former teacher has flat-out denied the allegations, instead insisting she’s the victim of a frame job and “blackmail” from the boy she tutored and coached — and that people are targeting her because she’s “good-looking.”“She claimed that one day, [the boy] had grabbed her phone unattended, had entered ...