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.
Paying child support to your rapist doesn’t sound like a good deal to me.
Child support is for the child. The child is legally & morally entitled to full support regardless of how it was conceived.
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.
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.
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.