A joined teacher accused of raping a 15-year-old pupil she was tutoring allegedly kept a 'memoir' of their narration successful her Notes app.
Christina Formella, 30, who besides served arsenic a boys' and girls' shot coach, was arrested last period during a postulation halt aft allegedly targeting a young pupil astatine Downers Grove South High School extracurricular of Chicago.
Following the arrest, constabulary searched her telephone and recovered what they described arsenic a 'memoir' she had allegedly written successful her Notes app, according to a petition to contradict pre-trial release obtained by PEOPLE.
In it, she allegedly claimed that the teen 'cheated connected me' and called him 'disgusting' successful what appears to beryllium the aftermath of their relationship.
'We volition ne'er ever beryllium unneurotic again,' Formella allegedly lamented. 'I'm not a 2nd choice. I'm the champion happening you'll ever person adjacent with each of my mistakes.'
In a conception entitled 'Manifestations,' she besides allegedly said she expected the unfortunate to 'reach out' soon to 'try to hole things betwixt us.'
'In the meantime, I'm going to unrecorded my champion beingness knowing he's not the idiosyncratic I thought helium was and that helium is beneath me,' the enactment read, according to the tribunal documents.
When constabulary aboriginal questioned Formella astir the note, she allegedly claimed it was jut an outlet for her anxiousness and that immoderate references to intersexual enactment was referring to her husband.
Christina Formella, 30, is facing intersexual battle and maltreatment charges for allegedly raping a 15-year-old student
Police allegedly recovered what they described arsenic a 'memoir' astir her narration with the teen successful the Notes app connected her phone
But prosecutors person offered a antithetic mentation of events, saying Formella had begun sending the teen flirtatious messages utilizing the school's messaging strategy astatine immoderate constituent erstwhile she was tutoring him - earlier yet giving him her telephone fig truthful that they could play a crippled together.
At that point, their exchanges moved to substance messages, successful which the alleged pedophile told the teen she 'loved' him and that helium was 'perfect,' in messages antecedently revealed successful court.
In 1 exchange, Formella allegedly told the young student: ' I emotion you sooooo overmuch baby… Even though this greeting was short, it was perfect.'
'I cognize babe it was cleanable babe truthful perfect,' the pupil is said to person written back.
'I emotion having enactment with you,' Formella is accused of replying, successful texts archetypal reported by section CW affiliate, WGNTV.
'I cognize babe I emotion it truthful much… It feels truthful good… It's truthful passionate... It's truthful intimate … It's truthful perfect,' the pupil replied.
As their conversations continued, Formella and the pupil transitioned to utilizing FaceTime - which they continued to converse connected up until she allegedly committed an enactment of statutory rape with the underage teen successful a schoolroom earlier the schoolhouse time started successful December 2023.
Formella was taken into custody during a postulation halt past month
She was seen successful assemblage camera footage sitting successful a constabulary conveyance with her caput successful her hands arsenic she learned she was being charged
The student's parent lone recovered retired astir the alleged incidental past month, erstwhile she recovered the disturbing substance messages betwixt them.
Just 1 time aft the parent spoke to the cops, officers tracked Formella down and took her into custody for the alleged rape.
In newly-released assemblage camera footage, Formella is seen being approached by constabulary arsenic she sat successful her car adjacent to her hubby and assemblage sweetheart Michael.
She appeared to beryllium confused arsenic an serviceman walked up to her model and ordered her to get out, saying: 'I cognize you're confused, I'll explicate everything to you.'
'Is she going somewhere?' her hubby asked, starring the bull to inquire her to prime up her belongings and locomotion to the backmost of the vehicle.
Formella turned grey arsenic the serviceman explained she was the taxable of an 'investigation', realizing she had not been pulled implicit for a regular postulation stop.
The teacher looked stunned erstwhile the serviceman ordered her to enactment connected handcuffs and told her she would beryllium interviewed astatine the station, telling the cop: 'I'm truthful frightened close now.'
'You can't adjacent archer maine what this is about?' she questioned.
She was with her husband, Michael, astatine the clip of her arrest
After sitting chromatic faced and soundless successful the backmost of the bull car, Formella was seen successful abstracted footage being led backmost into the conveyance pursuing her interrogation with police.
She had learned that she was being charged with aggravated transgression intersexual maltreatment and transgression intersexual battle against a minor, and sat backmost successful the conveyance with her caput successful her hands.
Formella repeated 'oh my god, ohio my god' to herself arsenic she wept from the backseat of the vehicle.
When she was past questioned astir the substance messages, Formella denied the charges - and alternatively claimed the lad had travel aft her 'because she is bully looking,' according to tribunal documents.
She besides allegedly told officers she 'cared excessively overmuch astir the student,' but claimed that helium had breached into her telephone and sent the substance messages to himself arsenic blackmail.
'She claimed that 1 day, [the boy], had grabbed her telephone unattended, had entered her passcode... had sent the connection to his phone, had past deleted the connection from her phone, and had saved it to his telephone arsenic blackmail,' the tribunal documents say.
Formella besides coached boys' and girls' shot at Downers Grove South High School
She has since been enactment connected paid administrative leave, and was ordered not to person immoderate interaction with minors oregon participate the schoolhouse (pictured)
DuPage County State Attorney Robert Berlin saying the allegations against her were 'extremely disturbing' and promised the assemblage that 'the benignant of maltreatment and behaviour alleged successful this lawsuit volition not beryllium tolerated.'
Still, Formella - who besides coached the shot teams astatine the schoolhouse - was released past period connected conditions including having nary interaction with anyone nether the property of 18 and not being allowed backmost into the schoolhouse wherever she has worked since 2020.
Court documents besides showed that she was a manager to the pupil alleging the intersexual assault, and aft her apprehension she was released connected paid administrative leave.
'We are devastated, and our assemblage is reeling,' Principal Arwen Lyp wrote to students and parents successful a missive aft her arrest.
'An big has been charged with the astir superior of violations, and spot has been broken. Our squad is present to enactment students who are impacted by this unspeakable news.'