A teacher found guilty of having sex with two schoolboys has been jailed for six and a half years.
Rebecca Joynes, 30, groomed her victims from the age of 15 and had a child with one of the teenagers, Manchester Crown Court heard.
Jurors heard Joynes joined their high school in 2018 as part of the Teach First recruitment scheme after studying for a sports and exercise science degree.
Both boys sent her flirty messages on Snapchat and hid them from their parents.
She took the first, referred to as boy A, shopping and bought him a £350 Gucci belt before they went back to her flat in Salford Quays, where they had sex twice, the court was told.
Joynes was already on police bail and suspended from her job when she began having sex with the second teenager, boy B, who she became pregnant by.
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CCTV shows Joynes buying one of the boys a £350 Gucci belt
She told the jury she had ruined her “dream job” with stupid “mistakes” by meeting up with the two teenagers and having them back at her flat, but had denied under-age sex.
Joynes was found guilty of six counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child, including two while being a person in a position of trust, by a jury in May following a trial.
‘Sexual predator’
Following her conviction, Jane Wilson, senior Crown Prosecution Service prosecutor described Joynes as a “sexual predator”.
The court heard pupils referred to Joynes as “Bunda (slang for bottom) Becky” and she told the jury she was “flattered” by the attention of teenage schoolboys following a messy break-up.
Boy A lied that he was going to his friend’s house to play computer games after school finished on Friday but Joynes instead picked him up near his home.
After they had sex, she told him: “No one had better find out.”
Joynes outside Manchester Crown Court. Pic: PA
But his mother noticed a love-bite on her son the next day and police became involved after rumours began to swirl on Snapchat.
Boy B said sexual activity with Joynes began when he was 15, with kissing and full sex when he was 16 – and still a pupil.
‘Best Dad’
He later told officers he saw the relationship as “friends with benefits” but Joynes became jealous and controlling.
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The day before she was arrested for a second time, Joynes invited him to her flat for a “date night” involving an Ann Summers scratchcard of sexual activities, rose petals and “surprises,” the court heard.
At the end it was a baby grow, saying, “Best Dad” on the front.
“I was like, ‘What the f***!'” boy B told police.
During the trial, Joynes appeared in court with a pink baby’s bonnet visibly tucked into her trousers belonging to the child she had with boy B.
Joynes wept as she told jurors the baby was taken away from her hours after giving birth and she now has only limited access, three times a week.
But prosecutor Joe Allman told the jury in his closing speech: “That was a pretty naked attempt to garner your sympathy.”
