A teacher sent messages and intimate photos on Snapchat to a 15-year-old pupil, a court heard.
Rebecca Joynes, 30, is on trial at Manchester Crown Court accused of six counts of sexual activity with a child. The allegations, which she denies, concern two teenage boys she met while she was a teacher at a Greater Manchester school. Jurors previously heard Ms Joynes allegedly groomed one pupil with a Trafford Centre shopping trip, before having sex with him.
She then fell pregnant by another teenager, jurors have been told. Jurors were shown a video interview of the second complainant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and he told of how he and the teacher started communicating on Snapchat.
He told police he added Ms Joynes on Snapchat after she was arrested for allegations relating to the first complainant, 'Boy A'. 'Boy B' said Ms Joynes added him back, before he messaged her along the lines of: "If the police have your phone, change my name." He said the conversation remained friendly, that Ms Joynes was 'nice' and that spoke everyday. He said didn't say anything 'flirty or sexual' for a number of months until he started to 'take the p***'.
"Then one day I was taking the p*** and said something along the lines of 'get your t**s out'," the court heard the boy say, reported the Manchester Evening News. "She said 'not tonight'," he then told the officer in the clip. The teenager said he asked Ms Joynes again a few days later, before she sent him a picture of her bottom, the court heard. "As a young lad I thought I was in there," he said. "I thought she liked me, she had sent me pictures of her body so basically I asked if it would progress."
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Boy B said he asked to meet up with Ms Joynes, then later told his mum he was going to the Trafford Centre, but instead went to the defendant's apartment. "It was kind of awkward at first, obviously she was probably nervous because she didn't want to get caught and I was nervous because I was meeting up with someone double my age and I'd known them for a number of years," the teenager said.
"I sat on her couch and said something like 'am I not ever going to get a kiss?' and we just started kissing. And she said something like 'I don't know if I want to do it until after you've left school or turn 18', or something along those lines. Then I started kissing her again and I just said to her 'you want to go into the bedroom?' and I had sex with her. That was the first time and since then there have been numerous times."
He later added: "I went round to the apartment at least 30 times. I would find an excuse and I would just go round for a bit." Boy B said he knew of the allegations made by Boy A, but said Ms Joynes 'didn't want to talk about it'. "I don't know whether it upset her or she regretted it, I don't know," he said.
"I never thought about meeting her, I thought she wouldn't do it again after she had already done it and been caught. I didn't think she would do it again after being arrested." Ms Joynes, of Pensby Road, Wirral, 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.
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