1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 1: Crime al Art, hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 1: Sidney Sumner. On Wednesday, an Illinois judge in DuPage County 3 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: denied former teacher Christina Formella's request to decrease the distance 4 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,320 Speaker 1: she's required to maintain from the student she's accused of 5 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 1: sexually abusing. Formela, thirty, faces fifty five charges, including criminal 6 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:25,119 Speaker 1: sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual abuse, in decent solicitation of 7 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 1: a child, and grooming. Prosecutors say she engaged in sexual 8 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: relations with the student over fifty times, with at least 9 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: forty five incidents occurring at Downers Grove South High School, 10 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:39,200 Speaker 1: where she worked as a special education teacher. Last month, 11 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: Judge Mia McPherson denied the prosecution's request to keep Formla 12 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: behind bars until trial. However, the judge did impose several 13 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: conditions for her release, including GPS monitoring, which prevents Formella 14 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: from coming within five thousand feet of the alleged victim's school, 15 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 1: residence or place of employment. Formela's defense attorney, Todd Pugh, 16 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 1: requested the distance be reduced to twenty five hundred feet, 17 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 1: arguing that Formla's home falls within the exclusionary zone. Since June, 18 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: Formila has been living at her parents five hundred and 19 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 1: sixty thousand dollars home on a golf course, which is 20 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 1: reportedly within a mile of where the teen works. McPherson 21 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:18,559 Speaker 1: denied the defense's request and said she's keeping the teen's 22 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 1: protection in mind. Body Can captured Formella's clear confusion as 23 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: she was arrested on March sixteenth in the driveway of 24 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:27,679 Speaker 1: the home she shared with her husband as they returned 25 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: from running errands together. Am I in trouble, like I'm 26 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 1: so lost right now? I'm right now for investigation, bringing 27 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:40,960 Speaker 1: in that Fifi and once you get this. Formella then 28 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: broke down in tears after hearing the charges against her. 29 00:01:50,600 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 1: What police said the sexual assault began during a January 30 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three tutoring session inside a classroom with the 31 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 1: defendant and the fifteen year old student. The abuse reportedly 32 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 1: continued for more than a year. The student ultimately ended 33 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: the relationship in September twenty twenty four. Formila is also 34 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: accused of sending texts that appeared grooming in nature. 35 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:20,639 Speaker 2: I love you so much, baby. I love you so 36 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:23,359 Speaker 2: so much, mama. Even though this morning was short, it 37 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 2: was perfect, I know, baby. It was perfect, baby, so perfect. 38 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 2: I love having sex with you. I know, baby, I 39 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 2: love it so much. It feels so good, it's so passionate, 40 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:34,079 Speaker 2: it's so intimate, it's so perfect. 41 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: Formla's husband, Michael, accompanied her to the hearing and appeared 42 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 1: to be supportive, holding her hand and smiling at her 43 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 1: as they waited for the hearing to begin. Formela has 44 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 1: pleaded not guilty to the charges. She's due back in 45 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: court on August fourth. More crime and justice news After this, 46 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 1: a Florida teen was arrested after he threatened to shoot 47 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:58,919 Speaker 1: up a Polk County McDonald's over a botched order. Dayton Schaeffer, eighteen, 48 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: told police when he he was arrested that his three 49 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 1: separate calls threatening to shoot this shit up last week 50 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: were just a joke. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd used 51 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: every McDonald's pun in the book announcing the arrest. 52 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 3: This McNutt didn't get his McNuggets from McDonald's, so he 53 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 3: used his mcphone to make a mcthreat his actual phone number. 54 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:25,839 Speaker 3: So it was a slow mcpitch for us to make 55 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:31,239 Speaker 3: a mcrest. Anyway, he's in the mcjail. Oh, the Polk County. 56 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 1: Jail employees called police at about one am Wednesday. They 57 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 1: were so concerned they locked up the restaurant until they 58 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: gotten all clear from police. Shaeffer admitted to making the 59 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: calls because the fast food restaurant didn't put chicken McNuggets 60 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: in his five dollars meal. He was charged with making 61 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 1: a false report concerning use of a firearm against persons 62 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: in misuse of a two way communication device. Judd said 63 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: that the manager told Schaffer when he called he'd given 64 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 1: the nuggets if he returned, but Schaeffer responded with more 65 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 1: vulgarities and threats. Schaeffer is being held without bond with 66 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: an August fifth court date. An Oklahoma pediatrician is behind 67 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: bars after police say she killed her daughter last month 68 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: during a Florida vacation. Doctor Neha Gupta is charged with 69 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 1: first degree murder in connection with her daughter, Aria Talaf's death. 70 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: Miami Dade Police stated the incident happened June twenty seventh 71 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 1: at an el Portal Airbnb rental. Gupta told police that 72 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: Aria drowned while swimming in a pool, but investigators believed 73 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 1: that Gupta intentionally killed the child. Gupta told investigators that 74 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 1: she woke up to a noise at three twenty am, 75 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: then discovered a sliding glass door had been opened. She 76 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: claimed she went outside and discovered her daughter in the pool. 77 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: Gupta called police and said she didn't know how to 78 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 1: swim to retrieve Aria. When first responders arrived at the 79 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:51,600 Speaker 1: rental home, they found the victim unresponsive before performing CPR. 80 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 1: Aria was then rushed to an area hospital, where she 81 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: was pronounced dead. An autopsy on June twenty ninth indicated 82 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:00,919 Speaker 1: that Aria had no water in her life, ungs, or stomach, 83 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,679 Speaker 1: but had cuts inside her mouth and bruising inside her cheeks. 84 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: Doctor said that the injuries were consistent with asphyxiation by smothering. 85 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 1: The child's father and Gupta's former husband, Doctor Sarab Telaffi, 86 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:16,720 Speaker 1: was in Oklahoma at the time. Gupta and Taalafe went 87 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 1: through tumultuous divorce proceedings that lasted two years. A judge 88 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 1: reportedly denied her fight for sole custody. She was also 89 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 1: ordered to pay hefty attorney's fees totaling over seventy nine 90 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:31,040 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Talafi didn't know that the pair had traveled 91 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 1: out of state. Gupta's defense attorney Richard Cooper said that 92 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: the arrest warrant against her was flimsy. In another statement, 93 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: Cooper claimed police acted hastily, adding that the toxicology report 94 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: had not yet been provided. Gupta traveled back to Oklahoma 95 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 1: after the incident. She is awaiting extradition back to Florida. 96 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: For the latest crime and justice breaking news, be sure 97 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:54,840 Speaker 1: to follow the Crime Alert hourly update on your favorite 98 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 1: podcast app with this crime Alert, I'm Sidney Sumner.