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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        You seem to be under the false impression that what they said isn’t a widely held opinion among men.

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          Almost everyone who has been a teenage boy knows the fantasies of teenage boys. Yes, there’s good reasons this is considered criminal conduct, and teenagers at that age can’t legally consent for the same reasons, but in a consensual scenario, such an experience does not have to cause any kind of trauma or harm.

          PS: The teenage boy in me thinks “nicceeeee”. Pardon.

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            Agreed. My issue here is the pitchfork mob mentality around it, it’s like, if you don’t scream and froth whenever this subject comes up then you become guilty by association.

            From a social psychological standpoint it is functionally equivalent to people spitting and throwing eggs at condemned people at the gallows, or witch processes. It’s deeply disconcerting to me that they can’t seem to control their emotions and whip each other into a fervor not unlike religious fundamentalists. It is how groupthink happens. And genocides.

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              It has sadly become consensus to try and distance oneself by being part of the pitchfork mob. And I haven’t found an age mentioned in the article - e.g. the age of consent in Germany is 16 IIRC, in which case the legal problem is when the older person has a position of authority / responsibility, not the actual age. And - age of consent or not - a relationship with a big age difference among adults is also creepy.

              Anyways, I remember my thoughts as a teenage boy and I would definitely - even in hindsight decades later now - have fantasized about this ^^ Even though I would have probably chickened out g

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                the age of consent in Germany is 16 IIRC

                It’s actually 14, but only if the older one is younger than 21 or they aren’t taking advantage of the younger ones lack of ability to make informed sexual decisions. If the older person has authority over the younger one (e.g. a teacher) the age of consent is 18.

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                One was 15. Not sure about the other. Lots of articles on this over the years.

                Age of consent in the uk is 16 too.

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        Child support is for the child. The child is legally & morally entitled to full support regardless of how it was conceived.

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          Yes but the payments are made to the child’s guardian. Meaning that a victim of rape will be forced to make payments to their abuser directly because of the rape, which I think is morally indefensible.

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            Not necessarily: it can be made to a trust or an agency per legal arrangement. Regardless, it’s still the child’s & not parent’s, and it’s both morally & legally necessary. Money is fungible: whatever in excess of their share a custodian pays for childcare needs to be paid back by the non-custodial parents. Charges of fraud may be pursued for misspent funds.

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            Not to mention that the rape victim is, themselves, a child.

            But really, my comment wasn’t meant to be a commentary on the child support system itself. Rather calling out a flippant remark that dismissed the gravity of the situation.