Florida teacher savagely beaten unconscious by 270lb autistic student after she told him to stop playing his Nintendo Switch REFUSES to back lighter sentence as he faces up to 30 years in prison

A Florida teacher who was beaten senseless by a 270 pound student has refused to support a lighter sentence for the teen.

High school teacher Joan Naydich was violently attacked by Brendan Depa, then 17, in February after she told him to stop playing on his Nintendo Switch.

The autistic teen was seen on video punching and kicking the educator in the back and head until she lay on the ground unconscious.

Eventually the 6-foot-6 teen, now 18, was pulled away and restrained by other staff.

Depa, was charged as an adult and faces up to 30 years in prison for the first-degree felony charge of aggravated battery.

The teen, who was initially charged as a juvenile before being upgraded to an adult, is set to plead guilty in an attempt to avoid jail time, the New York Post reported.

Naydich has 'shown no interest in mitigating what penalties Depa might face', according to news site Flagler Live.

Depa had three prior battery arrests before the February attack and has been in a prison fight just last month, the Post reported.

'I'm hopeful that the awareness of this incident being spread far and wide will prevent anyone else from ever dealing with the trauma, physical healing and disruption of everyday life this has caused,' she said on a GoFundMe page that has raised more than $100,000.

Depa is slated to issue his plea later month and will be sentenced after that in a separate proceeding.

Matanzas High School where the assault occurred has been beset with violence in recent years, the Post reported.

Your youngest stood up for a friend against a bully? Good for him!

Some people (esp. on the left) don’t get sometimes the only appropriate response to violence is superior violence.

Examples:

(1) I was a skinny nerd all through middle school and high school. What did not show is I was actually very strong. Got bullied a lot in middle school until I asked my Dad if it was Ok if I took the head bully down. He said yes (Dad served) and added the school better not punish me if I did or they’d deal with him (my Dad is a pretty imposing guy both physically and mentally). Next day I kicked the bully’s ###. Never got bullied again. No punishment from the school, either.

Shame your youngest was punished. That is just plain wrong.

(2) A friend (kind of girlfriend) defended herself from a campus area rapist. The scum did not know she was a Marine who had seen combat (technically she was in a non-combat role but the bad guys didn’t get the memo). That ended how it should: scum in the hospital, she OK (albeit a bit upset).

(3) Israel vs. Hamas.

Got lots more but think that makes the point.

Just my opinion.

“How can you tell he is autistic, maybe he is lazy and stupid. Seriously, they tell you that you have covid 19 with a test that proves nothing. To me autism is another scam. There are people who are retarded, people who are stupid, then the mentally damaged.”

I actually agree with you. Back in the day most special ed kids were just slow learners or kids with stuff like Dyslexia that hindered their learning. Was a few Hyper kids in there and they had trouble learning as well. No “autistic” kids. Kids who beat up on other kids and most important the teacher were suspended. If they did it to the extreme this child did they were expelled.

“Anything on a spectrum, is by definition a scam. Light can be shown on a spectrum, mental illness cannot be shown to be scientifically. Assigning values, is just man claiming something is truth without proof.”

I get so sick of parents or people saying “the child is on the spectrum” next time they do I will ask “So what color are they?”

hi lady. you’re taking the conversation the way i thought it logically and practically might go, so this morning, after a night’s sleep, i guess i’ll jump back in, because women just can’t allow themselves to be exposed to this kind of thing in any public setting, let alone the classroom, imho.

i had a brief flirtation with teaching back in the 70’s as i considered a career back then, so my experience in public schools was a year of subbing and tutoring in college. my wife was a full time teacher for 5 years in the 80’s. my brother was a coach during the same time frames. i’ll draw on that experience for what it’s worth to answer, you.

basically, with gaming stuff and the addiction to it some kids have today, your scenario boils down to an impossible one for a woman teacher in our collective opinion. in our day, it’d be like getting between a drug addict and his drugs. you’d better just dismiss the class, get out, and call in whatever authority is available to you to handle a male teen with his phone or whatever. perhaps, if you know the kid, my wife says she’d just ask him to go play with it over there, or ask him out to detention or the office, while she and the other students continued with class. she’d never try to confiscate or order a student like that around. if the whole class gets out of control (once she said) because of the disturbance, then there’s no other option but to get the class out and call in the ‘cavalry.’

in my sub year, i started out being able to physically control any male kid, given my athletic background and size and it rarely needed more than just my mere presence to keep the problem kid(s) quiet. probably, the principals liked me for just that reason. just once did i have to confine a kid who threatened me to his desk, physically. he didn’t get up after i placed him in his chair and he was no problem after that. i never experienced that sort of problem with a girl student. if the kid had been on drugs, though, i probably would have had to escort him out of the classroom to get control. if i couldn’t control him immediately, i’d have evacuated the other students while protecting them. as for fights, my wife would have stayed out of it and let the vice principal and crew handle it. for me, it was relatively easy for us to break them up by just pulling students off each other.

in my wife’s era, she couldn’t even touch a kid unless they were committing a crime, or physically attacking you or other kids. all the kids knew that so the mere threat of my size would be worthless to a kid like that. the kid would probably just laugh and say you can’t touch me.

so she would have to call in the enforcement ‘crew’ (usually a dedicated vice principal/coach back then) if the kid wouldn’t leave or stay quiet. the trouble and greatest fear in her ‘worst’ school was mostly with illegal alien kids and wannabe gang-bangers who could occasionally smuggle in weapons (she didn’t experience guns, my brother did though). in that case he was able to walk up to the kid confiscate the gun, which wasn’t loaded. lucky.

fortunately, the vice principal could control them verbally by threatening them and their parents with deportation (basically with a call to their parents or the authorities), back then. in other words some kind of peer pressure. the kid wouldn’t work of course, but would stop being a problem for her and the other students in the class. that’s the only ‘type’ of soft control available to women today imo. of course, in a weapons or fight situation she’d evacuate the kids and get away from the threat, if possible.

full disclosure, my wife and i believe in the necessity of home-schooling all our kids today, certainly in part because of regularity of incidents like this in our lax public schools today. the public school simply has to guarantee that no electronics or weaponry can be smuggled in, if they’re letting them bring in their phones, forget about working there.

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