Illinois teacher indicted on 52 additional charges in student sexual abuse case

An Illinois expansive jury has filed an indictment against an Illinois precocious schoolhouse teacher connected 52 further charges relating to the alleged intersexual battle and maltreatment of a pupil successful 2023.

Video released successful April showed 30-year-old Christina Formella getting pulled implicit during a postulation halt and being taken into custody aft being charged with assorted enactment crimes for having an inappropriate intersexual narration with a pupil successful 2023.

Formella had been accused of sexually assaulting the lad successful a schoolroom during a tutoring league earlier people began astatine Downers Grove South High School successful December 2023. The victim’s parent discovered the alleged battle erstwhile looking done her son’s substance connection thread connected his cellphone and past contacted police, prosecutors said.

During Formella's archetypal tribunal quality March 17, she was charged with 2 counts of aggravated transgression intersexual maltreatment and 1 number of transgression sexual assault.

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Christina Formella is accused of having an inappropriate intersexual narration with a student. (DuPage County State’s Attorney's Office)

On Tuesday, DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin announced that Formella had been indicted connected 52 further counts involving antecedently chartless intersexual maltreatment and battle of the student.

The expansive assemblage indicted Formella connected 20 counts of sexual assault, 20 counts of aggravated transgression intersexual abuse, six counts of indecent solicitation of a kid and six counts of grooming, each felony charges.

Berlin’s bureau said successful a quality merchandise March 15 the victim, who was 15 astatine the clip of the alleged assault, went to the Downers Grove Police Department with his parents to study inappropriate intersexual interaction allegedly committed by the boy’s tutor and shot coach, who was aboriginal identified arsenic Formella.

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Christina Formella being arrested (YouTube/APE HUNCHO Dupage County, IL)

The Downers Grove Police Department and DuPage County Children’s Advocacy Center opened an investigation, which led to the archetypal charges.

A further probe that progressive interviews with the unfortunate successful which helium alleged further intersexual maltreatment by Formella, determined the intersexual maltreatment began successful January 2023 and continued done August oregon September 2024.

During that clip period, Berlin’s bureau said, Formella allegedly sent the lad aggregate substance messages that were "grooming successful nature." The probe besides recovered the unfortunate and Formella allegedly engaged successful intersexual acts astir 50 times, some astatine the schoolhouse and astatine Formella’s home. The allegations assertion the 2 engaged successful enactment acts astatine slightest 45 times astatine the school.

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"The caller allegations against Ms. Formella, including the allegations of grooming and that the maltreatment lasted astir 2 years, are beyond disturbing," Berlin said. "I convey the unfortunate successful this lawsuit for having the courageousness to travel guardant during what I ideate is an highly hard clip for him. 

"I besides convey the DuPage County Children’s Center, peculiarly Investigator George Fencl, arsenic good arsenic Assistant State’s Attorneys Jaclyn McAndrew and Michael Fisher for their enactment not lone successful this lawsuit but for their continued efforts protecting our children."

Christina Formella successful a constabulary car. (YouTube/APE HUNCHO Dupage County, IL)

Formella appeared successful tribunal Tuesday greeting for a presumption hearing, wherever the authorities filed a 2nd petition to contradict her pretrial release, though Judge Mia McPherson denied the request.

Her adjacent quality is scheduled for Aug. 4.

Bodycam footage of Formella’s apprehension showed her appearing confused erstwhile constabulary asked her to exit the conveyance during a postulation stop.

They past arrested her and placed her successful the backmost of a constabulary vehicle, wherever she asked questions astir her detention.

Formella could beryllium heard sobbing successful the backmost spot of a constabulary conveyance and asked for her husband, her puerility sweetheart whom she joined past year, according to reports. 

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"I consciousness similar I’m gonna propulsion up," she said successful the March 16 video, continuing to outcry successful the backmost seat.

Formella, who was besides a shot coach, began tutoring the alleged unfortunate aft helium broke his collarbone, and they began messaging each different connected a schoolhouse platform, according to tribunal documents obtained by TMZ. The brace past allegedly exchanged provocative texts, followed by FaceTime chats that led to the December 2023 intersexual incident.  

Fox News Digital’s Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.