Manchester: Teacher told me she couldn’t get pregnant – boy

A 16-year-old boy told a court a teacher got him pregnant with his child despite telling her she couldn’t get pregnant.

Manchester Crown Court heard Rebecca Joynes told the boy, Boy B, about the pregnancy in her Salford Quays flat.

At the time, Joynes was also suspended on bail for alleged sexual activity with a 15-year-old schoolboy, Boy A.

The 30-year-old pleaded not guilty to six counts of sexual activity with two teenagers.

The jury was shown video interviews the second boy – referred to in the trial as Boy B – gave to police, telling how he lost his virginity to the teacher in her flat in Salford Quays .

The young man had lied to his parents that one evening he was going to watch a football match with Manchester United.

Boy B claimed that he and Joynes had sex about 30 times before her arrest and that he initially saw the relationship as “friends with benefits”.

Earlier, the young man said the first time they met in her flat they just kissed and Joynes had whispered in his ear that he would wait until his next birthday, when he turned 16.

Boy B later realized “how wrong” the relationship was, jurors heard.

“I knew in the back of my mind that I would tell him, ‘You’re a freak, you need help.’

“I think she was playing a game with me. I loved her, to be honest, and she said she loved me.”

He said that on one occasion Joynes turned up at a pub where he was with friends and was “crying his eyes out”.

“Now that I think about it, it was emotional abuse.

“Basically, she mentally abused me, then I sacrificed 18 months for a pedophile.”

They had unprotected sex because the teacher told her she couldn’t have a baby, but later revealed she was pregnant, the court heard.

“That was probably the lowest point.

“We were irresponsible. It’s my fault,” Boy B said.

“I can’t hide a child. I hid the relationship for 18 months from my parents.”

Joynes, who wore a pink baby bonnet tucked into her trousers during the trial, wiped away tears as the witness added: ‘I also thought about my child’s future.

“I want the best for my child as well.”

Earlier, the court heard how the teacher became pregnant with Boy B while on bail for having sex with Boy A.

Joynes denies six charges of engaging in sexual activity with a child, including two while a person in a position of trust.

The trial was adjourned until Monday.