Mum blasts school for silence over paedophile teacher who slept with two pupils
Rebecca Joynes was convicted of six counts of sexual activity with a child, two of those while in a position of trust as a teacher.
The parent of a student at the same school where a recently convicted paedophile taught has lashed out at the administration for not speaking up about their staff member’s crimes.
For legal reasons, the school has not been identified following accusations it failed to flag the scandal to parents, who claim to have only learnt of the allegations against maths teacher Rebecca Joynes once the story broke in the press.
Joynes was convicted earlier this week of four counts of sexual activity with a child, and two counts of the same charge while in a position of trust, after sleeping with two of her pupils – one of whom got her pregnant.
The mother of another child in the same year as the victims has since claimed there may have been others, laying blame at the school for not informing parents about the allegations as soon as possible.
The mother told The Sun: ‘The first we heard anything about it was when it came out in the paper that she had been arrested and charged.
‘But the school didn’t say anything and even if you phone them it was a very closed book.
‘I am unhappy with how the school has dealt with it.’
She added: ‘’I’m confident my child wasn’t exposed to Joynes as she wasn’t his teacher, but I wonder how many other boys were.
‘I think the effect it’s had on my son is the people who have power and you should feel safe with aren’t always the ones you can trust.’
Joynes now awaits sentencing for her crimes, though a judge at Manchester Crown Court warned yesterday she likely faces many years in jail.
Responding to the jury’s findings after nine and a half hours deliberation, Judge Cornell said: ‘’There’s a baby in this case who has done nothing wrong and is entirely innocent, and you will obviously want to see her before sentence is passed, I understand that.
‘But you must be under no illusion about what’s going to happen on July 4. You will have to serve what sentence I pass.’
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