by A predatory maths teacher has been found guilty of having sex with two teenage boys she taught at a secondary school.
Rebecca Joynes, 30, was already suspended from her high school job and on bail after engaging in sexual activity with Boy A, 15, when she began a sexual relationship with a second youth, Boy B, who she later became pregnant.
Despite having unprotected sex with Boy B after he told him she couldn’t get pregnant, she surprised him with a growing baby saying ‘Daddy is the best’ towards the end of their relationship, leading to that he was concerned.
Jurors heard the two boys, who cannot be identified because of their ages, had sent flirty Snapchat messages to Joynes before she invited them to visit her flat for sex.
Soft-spoken and described by the teenagers as “really nice”, Joynes closed her eyes and grimaced, before visibly shaking as she stood in the dock as the jury handed down the guilty verdicts. back on Friday after a two week trial.
In Boy A’s case, she gave him all but one of the digits of her phone number, and as a problem-solving exercise, he had to work out the last digit.
They connected on Snapchat and he sent her flirty texts and the two agreed to meet secretly. She then took him shopping and bought him a £350 Gucci belt and went back to his flat in Salford Quay where he said they had sex, with police later finding his semen in his bed sheets.
Boy B said that sexual activity started when he was 15 years old with kissing and full sex when he was 16 years old and still a student.
Joynes said she had a “breakdown” after being suspended from her job following the police investigation into her relationship with Boy A, and moved back in with her parents on the Wirral.
She was in a low mood when B’s boyfriend sent her a message on Snapchat asking how she was doing. “I really thought he cared,” Joynes said. Soon boy B was also messaging, “Get off your tits”, Joynes replied, “Not tonight”.
After his birthday, boy B lied to his parents telling them he was off to watch a Manchester United game but instead went to Joynes’ flat again.
He told jurors he was “nervous” when he lost his virginity to Joynes, warning her, “Don’t expect anything big, I’m only 16”.
As he strode Joynes said: “Oh! You lied to me”.
He later told police he viewed the relationship as “friends with benefits” and said they had sex regularly while he was still at school.
The relationship also escalated, with frequent rows, with Joynes becoming jealous and controlling, he said.
In order to save the relationship and just a day before Joynes was arrested for the second time, she invited boyfriend B to visit her for a “date night” involving Ann Summers’ scratchcard of sexual activities, rose petals and hidden notes around her apartment, to start. to “surprise” he played and continued.
At the end he was growing a baby, saying, ‘Daddy is Best’ on the front. “I was like, ‘What the f***!'” Boy B told police.
In a letter to boyfriend B, Joynes wrote: “Every inch of you is perfect. You are what I always dream about”.
Joynes claimed no sexual activity ever took place with Boy A and developed a relationship with Boy B when she was suspended from her job and had quit and left school at 16. age, so no offense occurred.
The defendant was found guilty of six counts of sexual activity with a child at Manchester Crown Court on Thursday, including two while in a position of trust after a nine-hour trial discussion.
Joe Allman, the prosecutor, previously told jurors that the defendant expected them to see the case differently because she was a woman and not a man.
He questioned why inappropriate Snapchats, comments and boys referring to her as ‘Bunda Becky’ were not immediately “shut down” by the teacher and questioned whether she was attracted to teenage boys.
She was also accused of “a blatant attempt to gain sympathy” from the jury by having a pink baby bonnet visibly stuck into the front of her trousers.
Earlier, Joynes told the jury she had ruined her “dream job” with stupid “mistakes” by meeting the two teenagers and taking them back at her flat, but denied underage sex.
Joynes joined the school in 2018, as part of the Teach First teacher recruitment scheme after studying for a sport and exercise science degree.
She said she was 28, had an unhappy break-up after the end of a nine-year relationship, was struggling during the Covid pandemic, and was lonely when she got “ridiculous” about it attention of teenage schoolboys.
Michael O’Brien, defending, accused Boy A of teenage bravado and claimed Boy B chose to “flip the dates” to say the sex started earlier when he was still at school when he was 15 years old.
Joynes wept as she told jurors that her child with Boy B was taken away from her hours after she gave birth and she is now only allowed to see the child three times a week.
After the verdicts were handed down, neither their mother nor father made any response to the public gallery but the boys’ parents were left speechless when Joynes was convicted.
Judge Kate Cornell thanked the jurors and said she would need reports on the defendant before she can pass sentence in July.
She bailed Joynes, but warned her: “There is a child in this case who has done nothing wrong and is completely innocent of all wrongdoing and you will obviously want to see her before the sentence is carried out, i understand that.
“But you have to decide what happens on the fourth of July.”
Jane Wilson, senior crown prosecutor for North West PSC, said: “Rebecca Joynes is a sexual predator. Joynes was given the responsibility of teaching and protecting children. She abused her position to groom and eventually sexually exploit schoolboys.
“Her behavior had a lasting impact on them. The SPC worked with Greater Manchester Police to build a strong case to put before the jury, including eyewitness evidence, telephone evidence showing the messages sent by Joynes and CCTV footage.
“I would like to thank the victims for supporting the prosecution. Joynes will now face the consequences of her actions.”
