At the sentencing hearing, the judge, Kate Cornell, told Joynes: “You were the adult, the person in control.

“You should have known better. You failed to enforce the boundaries of proper conduct but deliberately transgressed them.”

The trial heard Joynes would “laugh off” inappropriate comments instead of shutting down the behaviour.

She gave Boy A all but one of the digits of her mobile phone number as a maths problem-solving exercise in which he had to work out the final digit.

They then connected on Snapchat and he sent her flirtatious texts, with the pair agreeing to meet in secret.

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