A teacher allegedly groomed one of her pupils with a Trafford Centre shopping trip before having sex with him and then fell pregnant by another teenage pupil, a jury was told. Rebecca Joynes, 30, denies six counts of having sexual activity with a child. The allegations concern two teenage boys who she met through her job as a teacher at a Greater Manchester school.
Prosecuting, Joe Allman said that at first his friend didn’t believe him, but he then sent his friend a picture of Ms Joynes. His pal’s mother took the ‘perfectly decent but perhaps misguided decision’ to ‘cover’ for the boy, after his mother had been in contact to thank her for letting her son stay over and went to pick him up the morning after, jurors heard.
She allegedly suggested they should meet up and at first he thought she was ‘joking’, the court heard. On the day of the allegations she picked him up near his home, the jury heard. Mr Allman said that more than a year later, police became aware that Ms Joynes had allegedly been involved in a ‘fairly long term sexual relationship’ with another teenager, around the time she had appeared in court in connection with the allegations concerning the first boy.
Jurors heard that he started to ask if they could meet. He told his mother he was going to the Trafford Centre and claims he was picked up by her before they went back to her flat.