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

Christina Formella first obtained along with the scholar in 2023 when she was his freshman soccer coach at Downers Grove South Excessive Faculty … this based on court docket paperwork, obtained by TMZ.

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

In line with the docs, the trainer and her pupil started having emotions for one another, which got here to a head in the future in December 2023, after they met in a classroom on the faculty earlier than lessons started.  Prosecutors say Formella shut the door, and began kissing the sufferer, who reportedly fondled her, and he or she eliminated his garments. They each allegedly took off her leggings, and he placed on a condom and had intercourse with Formella. He was 15 and he or she was 28 on the time, prosecutors allege.

The docs say each later acknowledged to one another what they did was mistaken, and so they by no means had intercourse once more, and spoke for the final time in February 2024.

Cops say the scholar’s mother discovered the lurid textual content messages on her son’s telephone and reported them to the police division, which began the legal investigation that led to Formella’s arrest the following day, on March 16, 2025.