Special Ed Teacher Charged After Sex With Student | Crime Alert Recap Saturday

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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3.9 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Downers Grove police take a report from the South High student and his mother. The texts were sent between the victim and his teacher and soccer coach Christina Formella on a December morning in 2023, seemingly about a sexual encounter. The victim tells police after weeks of flirting, Formella slammed the door to her classroom, and the two had sex during what should have been a tutoring session.

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0:00.0	Crime alert, hourly update, breaking crime news now.
0:04.0	I'm Jackie Howard.
0:05.0	You don't have anything on you?
0:06.0	You can't grab whatever you need.
0:08.0	Whatever I need?
0:09.0	Yeah, whatever you need.
0:10.0	If you're phone, your person, you can grab it.
0:12.0	Christina Formella is visibly confused when she's put into the back of a police car as part of an investigation, but an investigation into what?
0:20.0	As a Downers Grove, Illinois mom sets up her 15-year-old
0:23.5	son's new iPhone using his iCloud account, she comes across a hidden text conversation and drags her son
0:30.4	straight to the police station. The conversation is a discussion of a sexual encounter with his love
0:35.8	interest, his married 30-year-old special ed
0:38.8	teacher Christina Formella.
0:40.5	The victim tells the police, after weeks of flirting, Formella slammed the door to her
0:44.9	classroom and the two had sex during what was supposed to have been a tutoring session.
0:50.4	Formella is arrested with her husband of just eight months in the car.
0:54.6	Is she going somewhere?
0:55.9	Yeah, we're going to explain everything to you guys.
0:57.3	So go ahead and turn around for me.
0:58.5	Excuse me.
0:59.2	Is my husband coming with?
1:00.7	Yes.
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