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Rebecca Joynes is currently serving a six and a half year prison sentence

A teacher who was convicted for having sex with two boys, becoming pregnant by one, has 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 one pupil before falling pregnant by a second while on police bail.

The Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) convened earlier this month via a virtual hearing, which Joynes did not attend, to consider her professional conduct. A panel recommended she be banned from teaching.

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[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 days ago

Bad wording that...Struck off is also slang for "masturbation"

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Joynes was suspended pending a police investigation. But this did not stop her from inviting a second boy to her apartment for a “date night” that involved an Ann Summers scratchcard of sexual activities.

She became pregnant with the boy and gave birth last year, but the child was taken away from her.

This is sickening! The fact that she only got six years is a severe injustice to those two boys and the unfortunate child that was conceived in such a manner. Let's not "both sides" this: sex abuse is sex abuse. As @MrSulu@lemmy.ml pointed out, this will probably get some attention among far-right chuds for about week and get forgotten. It won't solve any issues and one more kid will fall into that hateful ideology. I hope the two boys get the help they need and that baby gets a good family that will look after it.

(Also, I had to look up what "Ann Summers" was in the context of this story and now I feel like shooting my laptop)

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean maths does have a tendency to be a bit dry and it's hard to get kids to engage with but I feel like this is going to be too far.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 262 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Rape. She raped those boys. Use the correct terminology.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 85 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (23 children)

Legally speaking women cannot be rapists in the UK at least from what I remember.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 79 points 3 days ago (15 children)
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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 127 points 3 days ago (6 children)

falling pregnant by a second while on police bail.

She really can't stop fucking kids, can she?

Maybe she has a future in US government

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[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 93 points 3 days ago (12 children)

She forgot to be a billionaire

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago

I would like to welcome Rebecca Joyner to her future career in the Trump administration.

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