A paedophile teacher, Rebecca Joynes, 30, has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail for having sex with two teenage boys, one of whom she had a baby with. Joynes, a disgraced maths teacher, was convicted of six counts of sexual activity with children after cultivating relationships with the boys through flirty Snapchat messages. She groomed them with attention and gifts, including a £350 Gucci belt, before having sex with them. Joynes became pregnant by one of the boys and gave birth earlier this year, but the child was taken away from her within 24 hours. The trial revealed that Joynes had joined the school in 2018 through the Teach First teacher recruitment scheme, but struggled emotionally after a messy break-up and during the Covid pandemic, leading her to seek attention from teenage schoolboys.
Rebecca Joynes: Predator teacher weeps as she is jailed for having sex with two teenager boys
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A paedophile teacher who had sex with two teenage boys, having a baby with one, has been jailed for six-and-a-half years.
Disgraced maths teacher Rebecca Joynes, 30, was convicted in April of six counts of sexual activity with children after sleeping with one pupil before falling pregnant by a second while on police bail.
The boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were 15 and 16 at the time.
Joynes wept as she was sentenced on Thursday morning at Manchester Crown Court following a two-week trial when a jury heard she had cultivated relationships with the boys over flirty Snapchat messages.
She had groomed them with attention and bought one, called Boy A, a £350 Gucci belt during a trip to the Trafford Centre.
Teacher Rebecca Joynes groomed the two boys before having sex with them (PA Wire)
She then took the boy back to her flat in Salford Quays, where they had sex twice before Joynes told the teeanger: “No-one had better find out”. But the next day the boy spotted a love-bite on her son’s neck and the police were called.
Joynes was suspended pending a police investigation, but that did not stop her Joynes inviting the second boy, Boy B, to her apartment for a “date night” that involved an Ann Summers scratchcard of sexual activities.
In a letter to the teenager, Joynes wrote: “Every inch of you is perfect. You are all I ever dream about.”
She became pregnant with the boy and gave birth earlier this year, but the child was taken away from her within 24 hours.
Rebecca Joynes became “flattered” by attention of teenage schoolboys after a messy break-up (PA)
Joynes was convicted of six counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child, including two while being a person in a position of trust.
The trial heard how Joynes joined the school in 2018, as part of the Teach First teacher recruitment scheme after studying for a sports and exercise science degree at university in Liverpool.
But at the age of 28, the former childhood gymnast had undergone a messy break-up after a nine-year relationship, struggled during the Covid pandemic, and was lonely when she became “flattered” by the attention of teenage schoolboys.
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