BRITISH TEACHER JAILED FOR SEX WITH TEENAGE SCHOOLBOYS

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A British teacher was given a six and a half-year prison sentence on Thursday for having sex with two of her teenage students and having a baby with one of them.

When Rebecca Joynes, 30, started having sex with the second victim, Boy B, through whom she became pregnant, she was out on police bail for having sex with the first victim, Boy A.

Joynes was a “high achiever” who, through her own acts, had lost her kid and thrown away her profession, according to the court that sentenced her.

Prosecutors testified in court that Joynes began grooming the schoolboys at the age of 15, exchanging messages on social media before they had intercourse.

She was found guilty by a jury of six counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child, including two while being in a position of trust.

Neither of the boys can be identified by name.

Passing sentence at Manchester Crown Court in northwestern England, Judge Kate Cornell told the former teacher she had behaved with “breathtaking arrogance”.

“You were the person in control, the person who should have known better,” she said.

“Instead, you abused that position of trust and exploited the privileged role for your own sexual gratification.”

In a statement to the court, Boy B said he had been “coerced and controlled, manipulated, sexually abused, and mentally abused” by Joynes.

The court previously heard that when police opened an investigation into her relationship with Boy A, she was warned not to have unsupervised contact with anyone under 18.

But she then began a relationship with Boy B and later gave birth to his child. The baby was removed from her care within 24 hours.

Outside court, Detective Constable Beth Alexander said there was still a lack of understanding about men and boys being the victims of sexual offences.

“They have had to read comments stating others are ‘jealous’ of them, and that they should be ‘happy a young female teacher was interested in them’, and this rhetoric is very damaging and dangerous”, she told reporters.

“Women can still be paedophiles. This term is not reserved only for men. Men and boys can still be victims of sexual abuse,” she said.

AFP