Posted on 08/06/2024 11:30:06 PM PDT by Morgana
The monster special needs student who pummeled his teacher after she took his Nintendo Switch has been sentenced to five years in a Florida state prison.
Brendan Depa, who was 17 at the time of the beating, tackled teacher's aide Joan Naydich, 59, in February 2023 and unleashed dozens of punches to her body and head, leaving her seriously bruised and unconscious.
Depa, who is 6'6' and 270 pounds, has become a legal adult since the brutal attack he perpetrated at Matanzas High School in Palm Coast, Florida, a moderately sized town near Daytona Beach.
He pleaded no contest to the aggravated battery charges against him October and was originally due to be sentenced in May 2024, but the judge delayed the hearing so he could hear from more witnesses.
Arguably the most crucial testimony came from Naydich herself, who told the court: 'Brendan Depa's actions that day has caused me to lose a job that I had for almost 19 years, lose my financial security, lose my health insurance.'
Naydich, a mother of two, has previously called for her teenaged attacker to be locked up for the maximum sentence of 30 years.
But the decision from Judge Terence Perkins to give Depa 25 years less than that could have do with the exculpatory testimony that came from his mother and arguments from his defense team.
Leann Depa, his adoptive mother, said she had warned the school about her son's laundry list of triggers.
According to her, 'electronics' was his biggest trigger.
'I had told the school that being hungry was a trigger, that noise was a trigger, that being told no was a trigger, that being corrected in front of other people was a trigger, and electronics was a huge trigger,' she said on the stand.
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What he did to her was monsterous. He should have been behind bars to begin with.
They should be in special schools like in the past. Considering the laundry list of so-called “triggers”, how could you dumb things down enough to avoid them without effecting (dumbing down) the education of all the other kids and ruining them? Its not the school’s fault, its the worthless mother’s fault. Her warning about “triggers”, shows she absolutely knew about the monster’s anger control problem and just uses excuses to escape her own failings. It is absolutely NOT a school’s job to teach a nutcase how to control their temper. Their job is to educate the kids period, NOT to get involved in mental problems including anger management, gender crap, bad hygiene, political indoctrination, etc.
Not with a shiv sticking out of his chest....
The school district should be sued big time for not heeding the parents warnings about his hair trigger violent outbursts and providing safety for both students and faculty. He could easily have attacked some 14 year old girl and left her dead or permanently injured. This kid should never have been in a public school setting but in a mental health facility.
Doesn’t always work like that
Numbers over might
HE WILL NEVER CHANGE
We also had high school kids with pickup trucks with gun racks behind the drivers.
During hunting season-—all these trucks were parked at school until 3 PM, when there was still 2 hours of deer hunting to be done.
SCHOOL FUNDING HAS ALWAYS BEEN ATTENDANCE BASED.....
EVEN WHEN I WAS IN A ONE ROOM SCHOOL IN THE 40’s & 50’s.
SHOW US THE ALTERNATIVES
THEY GET MORE FOR “SPECIAL NEEDS KIDS”-—4X ++ more
AND THE SCHOOL ADMIN DETERMINES WHO IS “SPECIAL NEEDS”.
Oh, I see🙁
I have to apologize for my question, since over here schools are financed a little differently: there are a few variables, depending on the location of the school and how many students with special needs there are.
Furthermore, there are different school system depending on the state - I could tell you stories…🙁.
All the best for you, Sir🙂
wonder how you know that?
i know a boy who became a god fearing, contributing member of society (his dad was a good friend and brother). similar diagnosises, similar problems in school, violent, out of control, put by doctors on serious prescription drugs, who did. he was eventually taken out of public school and into our church.
‘ALL things are possible with God.’
How do you know that? Do you know what Level 3 Autism entails?
Did you bother to read the article in post #47?
From your home page:
105. The liberal is an intolerant, narrow-minded, thug.
Sounds like you. And I suppose you profess to be a compassionate Christian too......
I wrote, “See post #30 for more info.”
His parents didn’t send him to school. They put him in an institution.
The insurance company refused to continue paying, so the state took his case.
The state put him in a group home, and the group home insisted on putting him in school.
She testified in court that she didn’t take the game. But, who really knows...
Your wife had a tough job. I hope she’s enjoying her retirement.
“ You are weird.”
I think that any “kid” with zero impulse control who puts a teacher into the hospital after beating her senseless belongs in a cage for a very long time.
And for that you think I’m weird?
That says way more about you than it does me.
L
“And for that you think I’m weird?”
No.
Gentlemen,
perhaps this problematic student should have been placed into a „special school“ - a school with personnel which is trained to deal with such students.
But I don’t know whether such special schools still exist (over here in Germany, we still have them) and I have, alien that I am, no clue about the situation in the USA in this regard.
I’m sorry 🙁
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