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Rebecca Joynes allegedly became pregnant after having sex with one of her victims, known as boy B, Manchester Crown Court heard - she denies the allegations against her.

Rebecca Joynes denies having sex with the two boys but admitted, in Manchester Crown Court, to having broken safeguarding rules by being in contact with them on Snapchat and having them back to her apartment in Salford Quays.

The 30-year-old was already suspended from her job and on bail for alleged sexual activity with boy A, 15, when she allegedly took the virginity of a second boy, known as boy B, 16, who she later became pregnant by.

Joynes denies that any sexual activity took place with boy A - whose semen was recovered from her bedsheets.

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The last time I pasted a Wikipedia link on a world news community I was banned

.ml? The mods there are really ban-happy, especially if you say something counter to tankie orthodoxy and back it up with unassailable logic and/or data lol

[–] thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah that's the one. I hadn't noticed they were so ban-happy and I did enjoy getting some, definitely not all of them, different takes on world events.

What I really don't like is over policing though as it means you can unintentionally be stuck in a bubble.

Maybe there are stats on the number of bans a community has. That'd be interesting to have an idea of how much a community is policing.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Maybe there are stats on the number of bans a community has. That'd be interesting to have an idea of how much a community is policing.

It'd be up near the top for sure! Of the four times total I've been banned on Lemmy,

  • one was a legitimate one for breaking the "be excellent to each other" rule in !technology@lemmy.world by getting far too heated while arguing with a pro-cop person
  • one was a misunderstanding where making fun of Mitch McConnell got me banned from [!politics@lemmy.world(https://lemmy.world/m/politics) for "celebrating the death" of his sister in law
  • the other two was absolutely bullshit !worldnews@lemmy.ml bans for
  • supposed "sinophobia" (expressing unease about Chinese cops cooperating with Orban's fascist government in Hungary) and
  • "McCarthyism" for calmly and truthfully explaining that West Germany and later modern day Germany actually DID ever stop with the Nazism