Coach Launched Sexual Relationship With Scholar Over Faculty App, Cops Say

An Illinois coach accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old scholar she tutored allegedly began messaging him using a digital faculty platform, which prosecutors say ramped up into flirtatious texts … and a sexual encounter inside a classroom.

Christina Formella first acquired together with the scholar in 2023 when she was his freshman soccer coach at Downers Grove South Extreme Faculty … this in step with courtroom paperwork, obtained by TMZ.

The docs say Formella started privately tutoring the alleged sufferer after he broke his collarbone. Prosecutors say Formella then gave him her amount so they could play “8-Ball Pool” on their telephones. The pair then allegedly exchanged provocative texts, adopted by a FaceTime meeting between the scholar and Formella.

Based mostly on the docs, the coach and her scholar began having feelings for each other, which acquired right here to a head sooner or later in December 2023, as soon as they met in a classroom on the faculty sooner than programs began.  Prosecutors say Formella shut the door, and commenced kissing the sufferer, who reportedly fondled her, and she or he eradicated his clothes. They every allegedly took off her leggings, and he positioned 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 every later acknowledged to at least one one other what they did was flawed, and they also on no account had intercourse as soon as extra, and spoke for the ultimate time in February 2024.

Cops say the scholar’s mom found the lurid textual content material messages on her son’s phone and reported them to the police division, which started the jail investigation that led to Formella’s arrest the following day, on March 16, 2025.