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a teacher who was Convicted of having sex with two boysto become pregnant with oneHas been 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 activity with a child, after sleeping with a student and becoming pregnant for the second time. Police Bail.
The Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) convened virtually earlier this month hearingIn which Joynes did not appear to consider her professional conduct. A panel recommended that he be banned from teaching.
TRA chief executive Mark Cavey concluded: “Rebecca Joynes is banned from teaching indefinitely and may not teach in any school, sixth form college, relevant youth residence or children’s home in England. Furthermore, given the seriousness of the allegations proven against her, I have decided that Ms Joynes will not be entitled to apply for restoration of her eligibility to teach.”
A jury heard last year that Joynes had formed relationships with the boys through Snapchat messages, which cannot be named for legal reasons, and were carefully crafted. During a trip to the Trafford Centre, she bought a £350 Gucci belt for a boy.
She took the boy back to her flat in Salford Quays, where they had sex twice, before Joynes told the teenager: “Nobody could have known better”. But the next day, the boy’s mother noticed love bites on her son’s neck and the police were called.
Joynes was suspended pending a police investigation. But that didn’t stop her from inviting another guy to her apartment for a “date night” that involved an Ann Summers scratchcard of sexual activity.
She became pregnant with a boy and gave birth to a child last year, but the child was taken away from her.
The TRA panel said they found no evidence that Joynes’s qualities as a teacher outweighed the serious nature of the conviction, noting that Joynes’ offending had a “profound impact” on his victims, and that he had “little regard for the seriousness of his actions”.
It found that Joynes had breached standards including maintaining public trust in the teaching profession and having an understanding of professional duties.
Mr KV wrote in his judgment: “I am particularly mindful of the finding in this case of a teacher being found guilty of offenses relating to sexual activity with more than one pupil and the very negative impact such a finding would have on the reputation of the profession.
“I have to consider that the public has a high expectation of professional standards of all teachers and the public may regard a failure to enforce a prohibition order as a failure to maintain those high standards.”