Twisted maths teacher Rebecca Joynes has been jailed after sleeping with two of her students, one of whom she had a baby with.

The 30-year-old will spend the next six and a half years behind bars after being found guilty of six counts of sexual activity with a child, including two while being a person in a position of trust. Sentencing her today at Manchester Crown Court, Judge Kate Cornell told Joynes there was a "gross breach of trust" and a "significant degree of planning of grooming behaviour".

The court heard that the disgraced educator was so brazen with her offending that while on bail accused of having sex with her first victim, she began sleeping with another pupil. She even went on to have a child with the second boy, entrapping him into being a father before his own childhood had effectively ended.

Joynes groomed the first boy, known as Boy A, with a shopping trip where she bought him a designer belt worth hundreds of pounds. She took him back to her apartment in Salford, Greater Manchester, before having sex with him.

The 15-year-old had told his parents he was staying at a friend's, when he had actually been lured to bed by Joynes, who had warned him several times that "no one better find out". During the subsequent police investigation, Joynes was suspended by her school and later insisted to police that no sexual activity had taken place.

She was bailed on the condition she had no unsupervised contact with anyone aged under 18. But she broke her terms and struck up a perverted romance with another student.

The sick maths teacher, who said she was in her 'dream career', insisted nothing sexually happened until the boy left school and was 16. She later fell pregnant with his baby. Joynes told the court that they were in a fully-fledged relationship and that she was "in love" with the boy.

But he told the court that the 18-month romance became "controlling", and he found it difficult to get out. Joynes, who tucked a bonnet in her trousers in one of her court appearances, gave birth to a child with Boy B and said the baby was soon taken from her.

She had spent much of her pregnancy locked up in HMP Styal, just outside Manchester in Cheshire, which houses some of the region's most vulnerable and heavily convicted women. It is now believed Joynes will live out her sentence in Styal - which is classified as a closed prison, indicating a higher level of security.

It's also home to child killer Savannah Brockhill. She began her 25-year sentence at Styal in 2021 for the murder of 16-month-old Star Hobson. Lauren Jeska was jailed there for 18 years for stabbing three people at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham in 2016.

Meanwhile, Styal inmate Corinna Smith, 59, mixed boiling water with three bags of sugar and poured it over her sleeping husband, who died in hospital a month later. Smith was sentenced to life in prison in 2021 and will serve a minimum of 12 years before she can be considered for parole.

It is believed Joynes will be able to continue to see her baby behind bars, however visits will be under strict control. Rules state that a prisoner with a child under 18 months old can apply to bring their child to prison with them.

However for prisoners with sentences of 18 months or over, arrangements are normally made for the child to be cared for outside prison. Prisons with mother and baby units include Styal, where she was previously housed, and Bronzefield in Surrey.

The maximum sentence for engaging in sexual activity with a child is 14 years in prison. Male and female sex offenders appear to be given the same treatment. In many establishments, prisoners who have a sexual conviction are intentionally separated from other prisoners and held in Vulnerable Prisoner Units (VPUs).

And given the nature of her crimes, Joynes could be at risk of attacks. A HM Prison and Probation Service study in 2018 found that segregation led to a hierarchy of sexual offences. "Prisoners who had sexually offended against children were seen to be at the bottom of the sex offence hierarchy and those who had committed sexual offences against adults at the top," it said.

"Some people perceived that staff reinforced the hierarchy by treating prisoners differently depending on the age of the victim." Despite being segregated for their own protection, the report still found a "wide spectrum of bullying, harassment and/or violence".

"Many had faced particular and specific threats from both the other non-sexual prisoners, staff, other VPs and other prisoners with sexual convictions. Even those who did not experience bullying first-hand described how bullying and harassment was the norm for people with sexual convictions."

Several male paedophiles are notoriously known to have a target on their head behind jars, including Roy Whiting, who killed schoolgirl Sarah Payne after sexually assaulting her. He has been subject to a string of brutal prison attacks, and was recently left soaked in blood after a frenzied stabbing in his maximum security jail.

In 2018, Whiting was repeatedly stabbed in his prison cell by two fellow inmates screaming "you f***ing nonce", it was reported. Once sex offenders are out, they are subject to the strictest of licence terms compared to other convicts.

In March of this year, paedo teacher Kandice Barber, 37, who had sex with a 15-year-old pupil, was freed from jail after serving half her sentence. The married mum-of-three, who also sent her victim X-rated photos on Snapchat, was jailed for six years and two months in 2021 after being found guilty of engaging a child in sexual activity.

She served just three years after being automatically released halfway through her sentence. A Ministry of Justice spokesperson told The Sun: "Sex offenders face some of the strictest licence conditions and can be put back behind bars if they break the rules at any point in their sentence."

While on temporary release for work, she posed for loved-up photos with fellow inmate Jay Delaney, who she is believed to have met inside. They were said to have been "planning a life together" and were thought to have moved in together.

Alongside tough prison sentences, judges can issue Sexual Offences Prevention Orders that forbid offenders from taking part in particular activities and engaging in certain types of behaviour.

Offenders also need to comply with the Sex Offenders' Register, where they are forced to give their name and address to police. This must always be updated if there are any changes, and their failure to do so can result in a prison term of up to five years. All sex offenders are barred from working in schools.

Another twisted sex convict who was in a position of trust is former teaching assistant Fatinah Hossain, who groomed and had sex with a 14-year-old student for several months. In 2021, she was sentenced to five years and four months.

Honourable Judge Jeremy Gold dubbed the then-25-year-old's crime as "quite a remarkable campaign of harassment". Hossain will indefinitely be a Registered Sex Offender and once released from prison, be subjected to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for 10 years. An indefinite Restraining Order also prohibits her from any contact with her victim.

In the same year, former primary school deputy head teacher, Julie Morris, then 44, was jailed for dozens of child sexual abuse offences, including nine counts of rape. Morris, who carried out her campaign of abuse alongside her partner, David Morris, was the safeguarding lead at her school in Wigan.

As well as being banned from teaching for life, she was sentenced to 13 years and four months. Meanwhile, in November last year, another female primary school teacher and her paedophile boyfriend who filmed themselves sexually abusing a child were jailed. Zoe Williams, 30, and Thomas Surtees, 37, both admitted multiple offences including sexually assaulting a child aged under 13 and engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child.

Judge Julie Clemitson said she was "satisfied" both were a "danger" and presented a "significant risk of causing serious harm to children" in the future. Williams was sentenced to 10 years and Surtees to 15 years.

Both were told they would be made subject to a sexual harm prevention order and "notification requirements" for the rest of their lives. They must serve an extended licence period of five years upon their release from prison.