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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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[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 66 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

She forgot to be a billionaire

[–] velindora@lemmy.cafe 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] tomiant@piefed.social 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Give some examples of male teachers having sex with students who were caught and walked free.

[–] velindora@lemmy.cafe -5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Bruce Siewerth. Want more? Internet searches are easy.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

He got away because the statute of limitations had long run out, not because some idea you have that male pedos aren't prosecuted.

[–] velindora@lemmy.cafe -3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, can include priests then?

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That is the church protecting their own, who are by necessity men. You are insinuating that men, specifically because they are men, are let free when they commit sexual abuse, which is simply not the case, unless they're billionaires.