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09.05.2024 - 13:33 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The mum of an underage pupil has told a court she was ‘absolutely furious’ after finding out her son was allegedly groomed by his teacher before she had sex with him.
Rebecca Joynes, 30, is on trial accused of six counts of having sexual activity with a child. The allegations, which she denies, concern two teenage boys she met through her job as a teacher at a Greater Manchester school.
Jurors at Manchester Crown Court have previously heard that Ms Joynes allegedly groomed one pupil with a Trafford Centre shopping trip before having sex with him, and then fell pregnant by another teenage pupil.
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On Thursday morning, May 9, a statement from the mother of the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was read to the jury.
“One night after coming home from school, he said to me: “My teacher is well fit mum,” I laughed and thought it was a typical thing for a teenage boy to say, and at the time thought nothing of it,” the statement read.
Jurors previously heard that he stayed the night at Ms Joynes’ flat after they had been to the Trafford Centre. Prosecutors allege that Ms Joynes had sex with the boy at her flat.
The boy, Boy A, accepted in cross examination that he lied to his mum and said he'd told her that he had stayed at a friend’s house instead. A few days later he went to the Trafford Centre with his mum, when she said she noticed a ‘red/purple mark’ on his neck that looked like a ‘love bite’.
The statement continued: “I said: “What’s that mark on your neck?” and he said: “Oh nothing, I don’t know.”
The mum said she later got a call from the deputy head teacher at the school about allegations involving her son and Ms Joynes. She went to the
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