The UK teacher who had a baby with an underage student while on trial for having sex with another teenage boy broke down in court after revealing her newborn baby girl had been “taken away” from her.
Manchester math teacher Rebecca
Joynes, 30, sobbed to jurors over how her baby was taken “24 hours after being
born” this past January — and now she only sees her for nine hours a week,
Joynes told jurors on Monday, May 13, according to the Manchester Evening News.
“At the moment I have contact
with her three times a week for three hours and that’s it,” she said through
tears.
Joynes was arrested and
released on bail on orders not to have unsupervised contact with anyone under
18 after allegedly grooming her pupil, known as Boy A in court, by buying him a
$430 Gucci belt before bringing him to her apartment for unprotected sex.
She was suspended from school
and eventually fired, but soon after, she began having a relationship with a
15-year-old boy, known in court as Boy B, whom she had a baby with in January.
Joynes, who has denied having sex with either boy when they were underage, told the court that when she learned of the allegations against her she had gone to the second boy in a “panic” and he deleted all of her phone’s content.
The former teacher denied
having a sexual relationship with the second boy until after he turned 16 and
she was already suspended from teaching.
Teacher accused of having sex
with 2 students and getting pregnant for one tearfully reveals the baby was taken
away?
She said he had added her on
Snapchat twice, which she only accepted the second time because she thought he
“wanted to tell her something.”
Joynes said a friendship
developed and he quickly became her “best friend” even though the boy would
make flirtatious and sexualized comments toward her when he was drunk.
She told jurors that it wasn’t
until after his 16th birthday that he messaged her saying “I’ve left school
now” with a winky face.
After she received notice that
she had been dismissed from her job, he went to her apartment, where following
an emotional conversation, they had sex.
The two then entered a
relationship that Joynes described as “quite toxic” telling the court how the teenager
was “very controlling.”
After discovering she was
pregnant, Joynes hid love notes for the boy to find around her apartment.
The notes eventually led to a
piece of baby clothing that had the words “I love my daddy to the moon and
back” written on it.
The court was told that she
gave birth to their baby girl in January, but following an emergency court
hearing, the newborn was taken away from Joynes.
Joynes has denied two counts of
sexual activity with Boy A; two counts of sexual activity with Boy B; and two
counts of sexual activity with Boy B while being a person in a position of
trust.
Her trial is ongoing.
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