A “distraught” mother stormed into a school reception after being told her teenage son had spent the night with his teacher from Salford, a court heard.
Her 15-year-old son, named only as Boy A, had lied to his mother that he was staying at his friend’s house. Instead he was at the apartment of the Salford school teacher Rebecca Joynes where they allegedly had sex twice, jurors were told.
Joynes, 30, is on trial at Manchester Crown Court accused of six counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child, including two while being a person in a position of trust, all relating to two teenage boys.
His mother said in a statement read to the court, that on the day in question her son came home from school, changed out of his uniform and packed an overnight bag.
He told her he was staying at his best friend’s house as he had done before.
Boy A later told police he had arranged to meet Joynes who took him back to her flat at Salford Quays, where they twice had sex, the teacher warning him, “No one had better find out”.
The following Monday, Boy A’s mum got a call from the mother of the boy her son had supposedly been staying with.
“I think I owe you an apology,” she was told, before confessing Boy A had not been staying with her son at her house – and that she had picked him up from an address in Salford the day after.
Boy A’s mother said, “Where did he stay then? It wasn’t at the teacher’s was it?”
She was then told, “Yeah, it was”.
Boy A’s mother’s statement continued, “I was upset and crying at this point. Crying my eyes out.”
Det Con James Partington, of Greater Manchester Police (GMP), said in his statement, he was still at the school as Boy A’s mother returned.
“She entered the school in tears,” he said. “She stormed into reception and I would describe her as in a panic and distraught.”
Joynes was suspended from school as police investigated and she was bailed on condition she have no unsupervised contact with anyone under 18.
But it later emerged that Joynes had been in a long-term sexual relationship with another teenage boy she had been in contact with while suspended.
The youngster is the father of Joynes’s young daughter.
The defendant claims sexual activity with Boy B did not start until he turned 16.
Joynes denies two counts of sexual activity with Boy A, two counts of sexual activity with Boy B and two counts of sexual activity with Boy B while being a person in a position of trust.
The trial continues at Manchester Crown Court.
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