New Delhi: A British teacher was given a six and a half-year prison sentence on Thursday for having sex with two of her teenage students and having a baby with one of them. When Rebecca Joynes, 30, started having sex with the second victim, Boy B, through whom she became pregnant, she was out on police bail for having sex with the first victim, Boy A.Joynes began grooming schoolboys at 15 A judge sentenced Joynes, stating that she had been a high achiever who had destroyed her career and taken her child away from her own doing. Prosecutors testified in court that Joynes began grooming the schoolboys at the age of 15, exchanging messages on social media before they had intercourse.Guilty on six charges of having sex with child A jury convicted her guilty on six charges of having sex with a child, two of which were when she was in a position of trust. It is impossible to identify any of the guys by name.Exploited the priviledged role Judge Kate Cornell of Manchester Crown Court in Northwest England informed the former teacher that her actions were characterized by breathtaking arrogance when she handed down her sentence. You were the person in control, the person who should have known better, she said. Instead, you abused that position of trust and exploited the privileged role for your own sexual gratification.Boy B claimed sexually, mentally abused him Boy B claimed that Joynes had coerced and controlled, manipulated, sexually abused, and mentally abused him in a statement to the court. The court heard earlier that she was advised not to have unsupervised contact with anyone under the age of eighteen when police began looking into her relationship with Boy A. However, she later started dating Boy B and gave birth to his child. Within a day, the infant was taken out of her care.Victims of sexual offencesDetective Constable Beth Alexander stated outside of court that there was still a lack of knowledge regarding men and boys becoming victims of sexual offenses. They have had to read comments stating others are jealous of them, and that they should be happy a young female teacher was interested in them, and this rhetoric is very damaging and dangerous , she stated to reporters. Paedophiles can still be women. This is not a masculine-only term. Boys and men can still fall prey to sexual abuse, the speaker added.
