Rebecca Joynes who ‘took the virginity of her 16-year-old’ has arrived at court with her father as she goes on trial for sex offences.
The 30-year-old schoolteacher is alleged to have had sex with the pupil – identified as Boy B – at least 30 times after they began messaging on Snapchat.
Court Heard
Court previously heard that the maths teacher ‘brazenly’ pursued the relationship while on bail and awaiting trial for ‘grooming’ and having sex with another 15-year-old pupil – identified as Boy A.
Joynes denies any sexual activity took place with either teenager, who cannot be identified for legal reasons.
Evidences in Court
On Friday, the jury was shown video interviews Boy B gave to police after Joynes was arrested for a second time, in which he described losing his virginity to her at her apartment.
‘Obviously, it was my first time, so I was nervous,’ the youngster said.
Afterwards, Joynes told the teenager, who feared he hadn’t performed very well, ‘it’s your first time, it was great’.
Boy B said he kept the affair secret from his parents for 18 months, during which time the pair had unprotected sex dozens of times. He claimed Joynes insisted she had a condition which meant she was unlikely to get pregnant.
How She Set up a Sex Game for Boy B
But on a ‘date night’ – the night before she was arrested for a second time – Joynes sprinkled rose petals around her flat and set up a sex game of ‘surprises’ for the boy, the court was told.
She Is Pregnant
The game involved an Ann Summers scratchcard of sexual activities and hidden notes, which led him to discover she was expecting his baby.
‘At the end it was a baby grow,’ the boy said. ‘It said something like, “Best Dad” (on it) and I was like, “What the f***!”
‘She started crying and I started crying, because we were undecided whether to get rid of it or not.
‘That was probably the lowest point, we were irresponsible. It’s my own fault. I also thought, “what the f*** am I going to do?”
‘I can’t hide a kid. I had hid the relationship for 18 months from my parents.’
Boy Narrated it All to Police
Recalling the moment to police, he said: ‘She was crying. She was saying, “I don’t know if I can do this on my own.”‘
Joynes, who has been wearing a pink baby’s bonnet tucked into her trousers in the dock, wiped away tears on Friday as the witness added: ‘I have also thought about the future of my child. I want the best for my child as well.’
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Statement From Boy B’s Parent
In a statement read to the jury, Boy B’s father said his son’s relationship with the teacher had caused a ‘family breakdown’ because his wife had ‘wanted answers straight away,’ while he’d wanted to wait for his son ‘to tell us in his own time’.
Boy B’s older brother had been aware of the relationship but he’d been ‘stupid’, thinking it was ‘funny’, and failed to tell their parents, the jury were told.
Boy B said he ‘did love’ Joynes but the relationship soured and she became jealous and controlling, even accusing him of cheating on her with other girls.
He said eventually he realised the relationship was wrong and that he’d ‘sacrificed 18 months for a paedophile.’
Boy B said: ‘I would say to her, “You’re a weirdo, you need help. You’re a nonce”.
“You should go and find someone your own age, you are pretty enough”.
‘I kind of think she was playing a game with me. I did love her, to be honest, and she said she loved me.
‘Now I think about it, it was emotional abuse. She just basically mentally abused me. It was mental warfare. I sacrificed 18 months for a paedophile.’
More Admissions
Under cross-examination, Boy B admitted he had ‘lied’ to police about the timeline of events but said he’d done so to ‘protect’ Joynes as they had first met up when he was 15.
Mr Michael O’Brien, defending, put it to him that he had not ‘kissed and cuddled’ Joynes the first time he went to her flat and they had not had sex for the first time in February 2022 as he claimed.
But Boy B insisted they had.
Mr O’Brien said the boy had given a second interview to police to say they’d had sex before he left school ‘to put the boot in’.
‘She was carrying my child I would never, never do that,’ he replied.
Joynes denies six counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child, including two while being a person in a position of trust, between October 2021 and July 2022.
