A teacher has been banned from the profession after being released from prison for having sex with two teenage students, including one who gave birth to his child.
Rebecca Joynes, 31, is serving a six-and-a-half-year sentence after being found guilty of six counts of sexual activity with a child related to the two boys.
Now the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) has published a sentence that prohibits her from working in the classroom again.
A TRA panel heard that maths teacher Joynes had “groomed” the two children from the age of 15 and showed “little regard for the seriousness of her actions”.
Joynes was dismissed for gross misconduct in July 2022 after her first court appearance.
During her trial in 2024, Manchester Crown Court heard that she was 28 when she began exchanging flirtatious messages on social media with a 15-year-old boy called Boy A.
The Court heard Joynes “laughing” at the inappropriate comments instead of shutting down the behavior, and eventually arranged to meet in secret.
Joynes was jailed at Manchester Crown Court in July 2024 [PA Media]
One evening Boy A told his mother he was staying at a friend’s house after school but instead Joynes picked him up and took him to the Trafford Centre, where she bought him a £350 Gucci belt.
That night they had sex in her flat in Salford, and the next day the boy’s mother noticed a love bite on her son’s neck.
Boy A’s mother then walked into his school reception and called the police, which led to Joynes’ arrest.
It was while she was on police bail for the first set of offenses that Joynes began grooming Boy B, who is also 15, despite being ordered to have no contact with anyone under 18.
Joynes started messaging the boy on Snapchat and they eventually had regular unprotected sex in her apartment, which led to her becoming pregnant.
Boy B, whose child Joynes gave birth to, said he was “forced, controlled, manipulated, sexually abused, and mentally abused”, adding: “I will forever be Rebecca’s victim and forever linked to her through our child.”
She showed “breathtaking gall” for giving birth to a second child while on police bail for abusing the first victim, her trial heard [GMP]
The Court heard that Joynes’ baby was taken from her within 24 hours of her birth in early 2024.
The TRA referred to Judge Kate Cornell’s sentencing remarks on 4 July 2024, which said: “You have shown wonderful gall when you deliberately and knowingly breached the conditions of your police bail with almost identical offensive behavior as you were on bail.”
The TRA recommended to the Secretary of State for Education that Joynes be removed.
Marc Cavey, who takes the decisions on behalf of the Secretary of State, confirmed the decision and described Joynes’ behavior as “fundamentally incompatible with the work of a teacher”.
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