Teacher who had sex with two pupils struck off
A teacher has been banned from the profession after being jailed for having sex with two teenage students, including one whose baby she gave birth to.
Rebecca Joynes, 31, is serving a six-and-a-half year prison sentence after being found guilty of six counts of sexual intercourse with a child, having been in relationships with two boys.
Now the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) has issued an order banning him from working in the classroom again.
A TRA panel heard maths teacher Joynes “groomed” both boys from the age of 15 and had “little regard for the seriousness of his actions”.
Joynes was dismissed for gross misconduct in July 2022 following his first court appearance.
During his trial in 2024, Manchester Crown Court heard he was 28 when he began exchanging flirtatious messages on social media with a 15-year-old boy referred to as Boy A.
The court heard that instead of stopping the behaviour, Joynes “laughed off” the inappropriate comments 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 he bought her a £350 Gucci belt.
They had sex that night at his 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 stormed the school reception and the police were called, leading to Joynes’ arrest.
While Joynes was on police bail for the first offenses, he again began grooming 15-year-old boy B, 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 at his apartment, which led to her becoming pregnant.
Child B, whose child Joynes gave birth to, said she was “coerced, controlled, manipulated, sexually abused and mentally abused”, adding: “I will forever be Rebecca’s victim and will forever be linked to her through our child.”
A woman who was granted bail by police for abusing the first victim showed “breathtaking arrogance” for grooming her second child, her trial heard [GMP]
The court heard Joynes’ baby was taken from her within 24 hours of being born in early 2024.
Referring to Judge Kate Cornell’s sentencing remarks on July 4, 2024, the TRA said: “You have shown breathtaking arrogance by willfully and knowingly breaching police bail conditions with conduct that is almost identical to your being granted bail.”
TRA recommended to the Minister for Education that Joynes be dismissed.
Marc Cavey, decision-maker on behalf of the Secretary of State, confirmed the decision and stated that Joynes’ behavior was “fundamentally incompatible with working as a teacher”.
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