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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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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

... Imagine saying this regarding a male teacher aged 30/31 who groomed a 15 year old and 16 year old student, and got the 15 year old student pregnant.

(This woman got pregnant by the 15 yo student she groomed... and she had that child.)

"Oh I dunno, I guess some people are attracted to kids! 🤷 Its a bad thing to do though."

What the fuck.

No, its a lot more than just a bad thing, merely immoral actions. Its three innocent lives massively damaged, thrown off course, poetentially fucked up for life, because of the manipulative and selfish actions of a person in a position of trust and authority absuing that trust and authority.

And yeah its three lives, not two, because there's no way this doesn't massively negatively affect the life of her baby.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/former-maths-teacher-rebecca-joynes-banned-from-teaching-after-grooming-two-school-boys/news-story/0fe2070f15e4694d585491d7ea183cdb

... this woman is a serial sexual predator, who pursued the second relationship after being investigated for the first one and more or less getting away with a slap on the wrist.

Thats not just 'immoral actions', it's basically downright evil, which, according to the judge of the most recent trial, was carried out with "breathtaking gall" and "astonishing arrogance."

Downplaying the magnitude of how fucked up this is, is itself fucked up.