A mother found out about son’s affair with his teacher after spotting a love bite on his neck, a court has heard.
The 15-year-old, identified only as Boy A, had lied to his mother that he was staying at his friend’s house, but instead was at the apartment of teacher Rebecca Joynes where they twice had sex, jurors were told.
Ms 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 who remain anonymous for legal reasons.
The court heard that the boy’s mother stormed into the school’s reception after being told her son had stayed the night with Joynes.
Det Con James Partington, of Greater Manchester Police (GMP), said in a statement that “she entered the school in tears” and “she stormed into reception and I would describe her as in a panic and distraught”.
Boy A told jurors he and the teacher exchanged messages on Snapchat and she picked him up after school on a Friday night.
His mother, in a statement read to the court, said 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.
After her son left, later that night, she spoke to him and he told her he was playing the video game FIFA with his friend at his house.
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, with the teacher warning him: “No one had better find out.”
The next day, boy A went shopping with his mother at the Trafford Centre when she noticed a mark on her son’s neck, which she said “looked like a love bite”.
“I said, ‘What’s that mark on your neck?’,” his mother said. “He said, ‘Oh, nothing, I don’t know’.”
But the following Monday morning she got a call from the school saying an “allegation” had been made.
At the school a police officer told her they had received an anonymous report from Childline concerning an allegation involving a teacher and her son.
But back home she got a call from the mother of the boy with whom her son had supposedly been staying, the night he was allegedly with Joynes, saying “I owe you an apology” as he had in fact not been there.
Boy A’s mother described her son as “clever” and doing well at school. A short time before the alleged offence, he had come and said to her, “My teacher is well fit, mum. Everyone says she’s well fit.”
Ms 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 Ms 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 Ms Joynes’s young daughter.
The defendant claims sexual activity with Boy B did not start until he turned 16.
Ms 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.
