Here’s What He Had To Say About Her

A teenage boy in the U.K. sexually assaulted by a teacher who gave birth to his baby says the pain she caused him will never go away.

In May 2024, former Manchester high school teacher Rebecca Joynes, 31, was convicted of four counts of sexual activity with a child and two counts of sexual activity with a child by a person of trust, according to a statement from the Greater Manchester Police.

She had groomed the two boys starting when they were each 15 years old, prosecutors said in Manchester Crown Court, the BBC reported.

During her trial, prosecutors told jurors that Joynes felt “flattered” by the attention she was getting from teenage boys after her nine-year relationship came to an end, per the outlet.

Joynes claimed there was “no sexual contact between her and the first schoolboy and claimed sexual contact did not take place with the second boy until he was 16 and after she had been dismissed from her job,” according to the Crown Prosecution Service.

Joynes was sentenced to six and a half years in prison in July 2024.

On Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, during a professional conduct hearing about Joynes’ crimes, Shirley Duckworth of the Teaching Regulation Agency said the former teacher’s convictions were “of the utmost severity” and that she was guilty of “an abuse of trust,” the Manchester Evening News reported.

The hearing was held to determine whether Joynes’ behavior constitutes “unacceptable conduct” and if it hurts the reputation of the teaching profession itself, according to NottinghamshireLive.

Duckworth told the panel that becoming a teenage father was “thrust upon” Joynes’ victim — known in legal proceedings as Pupil B or Boy B to protect his identity because he is a minor.

“I will forever be Rebecca’s victim and will forever be linked to her through our child,” Pupil B has said, Duckworth told the panel.

“The damage done here is enormous,” she added.

Still behind bars, Joynes did not attend the remote hearing and did not send anyone to represent her, NottinghamshireLive reported.

In Oct. 2021, Joynes was arrested on suspicion of sexual activity with a child and later charged with six counts of sexual activity — four counts of sexual activity with a child, and two counts of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust, according to the Greater Manchester Police.

Joynes had “contacted” the two teenage boys she met as a teacher at the high school where she taught, Greater Manchester Police said in the statement.

She groomed Boy A by taking him to an upscale shopping center where she bought him a £345 ($450) Gucci belt before having sex with him in her apartment, per the statement.

Boy A’s mother grew suspicious and later told the school she believed Joynes was allegedly involved with her son, prosecutors said, the BBC reported. Suspended from work following the allegations, Joynes was arrested and released on bail on the condition that she stay away from children under 18 years old.

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She told authorities she was at a “low point” when Boy B reached out to her on Snapchat and they began having sex at her apartment, according to the outlet. Though she told him she believed she couldn’t get pregnant, she did, police said, adding that Boy B learned she was pregnant “to his great shock.”

Their daughter was taken from her following an emergency court hearing 24 hours after delivery.

Joynes was ordered to register as a sex offender for life and issued with a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for 10 years, plus a restraining order in relation to both boys.

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