Rebecca Joynes is currently serving a six and a half year prison sentence

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.

    • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      310·
      12 hours ago

      Check the hard drives of those who downvoted that post about the need to protect children.

        • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
          26·
          12 hours ago

          sicko

          o_O You’re saying I’m a sicko for wanting to protect children? …?

          I guess someone should check mojofrododojo’s hard drive too.

          • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            6·
            10 hours ago

            Check my hard drives all you want. A teenager is not exactly the same thing as a child.

            Pretending otherwise is counterproductive, and just reads as trying to prove you’re not a pedo very hard.

            • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
              74·
              11 hours ago

              I’m glad you want to protect children, and that you’re rightly outraged upon perceiving a threat to them, but, there’s a lot to unpick there.

              you’re justifying the rape of underage men and women by creating a false separation of teens, as if they aren’t children too you sick fuck.

              This is a strawman argument, and a rather extreme one, built in part on cherry-picking [(not to mention ad-hominem, red-herring, false equivalence, appeal to emotion, slippery slope fallacy, self contradiction)], and on larger part, non-sequitur, apparently. Wanting to have more nuanced terminology for this is not justifying the rape of anyone. Quite the contrary. Facilitating better communication will help reduce harms.

              And speaking of reducing harms, do you have any suggestion for the crux of the dilemma I posed? Given that our current system is increasing the child abuse: How are we to better protect children?

              Or maybe you still insist on equivalence under law of a 15 year old having sex, and an under 10…? I’d like to hear your reasoning for that, if you’re willing to offer it. You may have a good point I had not thought of… You might be right, and convince me to your way of thinking, ~ though it escapes me how from here, I remain open minded.

              Or, if it’s just emotional catharsis you need, you could continue to spit unfounded hate at me, misunderstanding and misrepresenting what I say, while the abuse carries on in the background unabated.