Paedophile teacher who had sex with two boys is struck off
A teacher who was convicted of having sexual intercourse with two boys and getting pregnant from one of them was banned from the profession.
Maths teacher Rebecca Joynes, 31, was jailed for six-and-a-half years in July last year after being found guilty of six counts of sexual intercourse with a child after sleeping with a student while on police bail and becoming pregnant for the second time.
The Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) met in a virtual hearing earlier this month to consider Joynes’ professional conduct, but Joynes did not attend. A panel recommended that he be banned from teaching.
Marc Cavey, chief executive of the TRA, concluded: “Rebecca Joynes is prohibited from teaching indefinitely and cannot teach in any school, sixth form college, relevant youth accommodation or children’s hostel in England. I have also determined that, given the seriousness of the allegations against her, Ms Joynes will not be entitled to apply for the restoration of her fitness to teach.”
The jury heard last year that Joynes developed relationships with the boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, over Snapchat messages and carefully groomed them. He bought a £350 Gucci belt for a boy during a trip to the Trafford Centre.
He would take the boy back to his flat in Salford Quays; where they had sex twice before Joynes told the teenager, “It’s better if no one finds out.” However, the next day, the boy’s mother noticed a love bite on her son’s neck and called the police.
Joynes was suspended pending a police investigation. But that didn’t stop Ann Summers from inviting a second boy to her apartment for a “date night” that included a scratch card of their sexual activities.
She became pregnant with the child and gave birth earlier this year, but the child was taken from her.
The TRA panel said they found no evidence that Joynes’ qualifications as a teacher outweighed the seriousness of his conviction, noting the “profound impact” Joynes’ crime had on his victims and that he “showed little regard for the seriousness of his actions.”
Joynes was found to have breached standards, including maintaining public confidence in the teaching profession and having a sense of professional duty.
In his judgment, Mr Cavey wrote: “I attach particular importance to the finding in this case of the conviction of a teacher for offenses involving sexual activity with more than one of his pupils and the very negative impact such a finding could have on the reputation of the profession.
“I have had to take into account that the public has a high expectation of professional standards from all teachers and that the public may view failure to enforce a restraining order as a failure to uphold those high standards.”
