A Salford teacher who sexually abused two of her pupils and was jailed for six and a half years has now been struck off
Rebecca Joynes contacted two teenage boys she met whilst she was a teacher at a Greater Manchester school.
Joynes groomed the youngsters from the age of 15, and was on bail for sexual activity with the first child, Boy A, when she began having sex with the second, Boy B, who she went on to become pregnant by
In a victim statement at her trial in 2024,Boy B said he was “coerced, controlled, manipulated, sexually abused, and mentally abused”, adding: “I will forever be Rebecca’s victim and forever linked to her through our child.”
Ms Joynes had started teaching at the school in 2018 and she taught children between the ages of 11 to 18.
The events which led to the matters which were the subject of the criminal proceedings started in October 2021, when the two victims (Pupil A and Pupil B) were in Year 11 and taught maths by Ms Joynes.
The Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) in making their decision noted the following sentencing remarks:
“you abused that position of trust, and you exploited your privileged role to start and continue contact for your own sexual gratification.”
“You showed breathtaking gall in deliberately and knowingly breaching police bail conditions … with almost identical offending behaviour as that you were on bail for”
