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A teacher has been permanently removed from the teaching profession after being imprisoned for engaging in sexual activities with two underage students, one of whom bore her child. Rebecca Joynes, aged 31, is currently serving a six-and-a-half year prison sentence following her conviction on six counts of sexual activity with a child, involving two teenage boys.
The Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) has officially declared that Joynes is prohibited from any future classroom roles. During a hearing, the TRA panel revealed that Joynes, who was a maths teacher, had groomed both boys starting when they were just 15 years old. The panel also emphasized her blatant disregard for the gravity of her offenses. Joynes was dismissed from her teaching position in July 2022 due to gross misconduct, shortly after her initial court appearance.
At her trial held in 2024 at Manchester Crown Court, it was disclosed that Joynes began communicating flirtatiously on social media with the first boy, referred to as Boy A, when she was 28, and he was 15. Instead of discouraging the inappropriate exchanges, she often responded by laughing off his comments before arranging secret meetings. One night, she misled the boy’s mother by claiming he was staying at a friend’s house, but instead took him to a shopping center where she bought him an expensive Gucci belt worth £350. The same evening, they engaged in sexual activity at her apartment in Salford. The following day, Boy A’s mother noticed a love bite on her son’s neck, leading her to confront the school and notify the police, which resulted in Joynes’ arrest.
Even while on police bail for these initial offenses, Joynes began grooming another 15-year-old boy, known as Boy B, despite explicit bail conditions forbidding contact with minors. She initiated contact through Snapchat, and their relationship progressed to regular unprotected sex at her home. This relationship culminated in her pregnancy, and the baby was born early in 2024 but promptly removed from her care within 24 hours. Boy B described his experience with Joynes by saying he was “coerced, controlled, manipulated, sexually abused, and mentally abused,” and added, “I will forever be Rebecca’s victim and forever linked to her through our child.” Judge Kate Cornell, during sentencing remarks in July 2024, highlighted Joynes’ “breathtaking gall” for knowingly violating her bail conditions by repeating similar offending behavior. Following these events, the TRA recommended that Joynes be fully struck off from teaching, a decision upheld by Marc Cavey, acting on behalf of the Secretary of State for Education, who stated that her conduct was “fundamentally incompatible with working as a teacher.”
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