A teacher has been jailed for having sex with two teenage students, one of whom she fathered.
Rebecca Joynes, 31, is serving a six-and-a-half-year sentence after being found guilty of six counts of child sex offenses in relation to two boys.
Now the Teaching Regulatory Authority (TRA) has issued a ruling banning her from working in a classroom again.
A TRA team heard maths teacher Joyce had been “grooming” the two children since they were 15 and was “indifferent to the seriousness of her behaviour”.
Joines was sacked for gross misconduct in July 2022 after his first court appearance.
During her trial in 2024, Manchester Crown Court heard that when she was 28 she began exchanging flirtatious messages on social media with a 15-year-old boy known as Boy A.
The court heard that Joynes would “laugh off” inappropriate comments rather than stop the behavior and eventually arranged secret meetings.
Joynes was jailed at Manchester Crown Court in July 2024 [PA Media]
One night, Boy A told his mother he was staying at a friend’s house after school, but instead Jonis picked him up and took him to the Trafford Center, where she bought him a Gucci belt worth £350.
They had sex that night at her flat in Salford and the next day the boy’s mother noticed a love bite mark on her son’s neck.
Boy A’s mother then rushed into the school reception and called the police, who arrested Joynes.
While Joynes was on police bail for her first offence, she began grooming Boy B, also 15, despite being ordered not to have contact with anyone under 18.
Joynes began messaging the boy on Snapchat and they eventually had regular unprotected sex in her apartment, leading to her pregnancy.
Boy B, the child Joynes gave birth to, said he had been “coerced, controlled, manipulated, sexually and emotionally abused”, adding: “I will always be Rebecca’s victim and forever connected to her through our children.”
She showed “amazing bravery” in servicing a second boy while on police bail for abusing the first victim, her trial heard [GMP]
The court heard Joynes’ baby was born in early 2024 and taken away within 24 hours of birth.
TRA referred to Judge Kate Cornell’s sentencing remarks on 4 July 2024, who said: “You showed astonishing audacity in your willful and willful breach of police bail conditions, committing an offense that was virtually identical to that committed when you were released on bail.”
The TRA recommended that the Education Secretary remove Joynes.
Mark Kelvey, the policymaker representing the secretary of state, confirmed the decision and said Joinings’ behavior was “fundamentally inconsistent with the job of a teacher.”
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