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#DownersGroveSouthHighSchool teacher previously charged with s-xually assaulting her 15-year-old student is now facing 52 more charges related to that boy.
#ChristinaFormella, 30, was charged with criminal s-xual abuse, criminal s-xual assault and aggravated criminal s-xual abuse in March after the teenager and his mother reported alleged “inappropriate s-xual conduct.”
She was granted pre-trial release but was banned from entering Downers Grove South High School, where she was both a teacher and soccer coach, and is not allowed to have any contact with anyone under the age of 18.
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#DuPageCounty State’s Attorney announced 52 additional charges involving alleged previously unknown s-xual abuse and assault of the same student.
Formella is now facing 20 counts of criminal s-xual assault, 20 counts of aggravated criminal s-xual abuse, six counts of indecent solicitation of a child and six counts of grooming, all felonies.
Prosecutors said an interview with the victim in April le...