BREAKING NEWS 6'6" monster schoolboy learns his fate for beating up tiny female school aide for taking his Nintendo Switch

Clearly, you have had much experience in this area. As desperate as I’ve ever been for a job, I’ve always avoided this kind of work, even though the adult-care programs seem to be hiring all the time. Many people with these disabilities are sweet-natured, and they have far more to fear from the “normal” people. But, based on personal experience, I know of the difficulties in helping grown people who are forever children, so I’ve never applied for those jobs.

Of course, you make a good point that the number of beds is finite and expanded treatment would cost much more money. But, would it really cost much more if, instead of dispersing people into many different houses (group homes), each state housed them in a smaller number of larger places? Especially the people with behavioral problems. Just like group homes, people would learn to live together, do chores, and so on in these places. But, they wouldn’t have to enroll in special ed programs at a school. More importantly, their doctors would be right there on the premises and have more oversight.

I used to take a bus route that had a stop at a mental institution. The bus would wind through the leafy grounds, and although no one would want to end up there, it didn’t look like a bad place.

The links below give more information about this case.

His mother talks about his upbringing here:
https://flaglerlive.com/brendan-depa-my-son-story/#gsc.tab=0

Here’s the paraprofessional’s side of the story:
https://www.observerlocalnews.com/news/2024/may/02/everything-was-taken-away-from-me-victim-testifies-in-sentencing-hearing-for-brendan-depa/

Two other autistic students in the same school system attacked paraprofessionals, but those students weren’t sent to prison:
https://flaglerlive.com/depa-disparities/#gsc.tab=0

Well I've pretty much seen it all when it comes to someone cognitively going thru the stages of a brain disease that literally destroys the brain matter bit by bit...so that emotions, physical strength, inability to reason or think, aggression, tc etc tc. is seen and observed until what is left bears nothing to the individual but something else devoid of humanity as we know it.

You learn , oh do you learn! What it requires to communicate each step of the way until it's impossible to communicate. Rage and aggression is 24/7 and state laws forbid sedating these patients. Other patients, staff and visitors get hurt often seriously - nurses often are injured....so it's no wonder turnover is very high....

Just one patient like this can grab onto the crouch of a nurse like a vise-grip, requiring 5-6 people to simply hold down the patient....and still not get the grip loose.
The physical strength of such people is beyond comprehension.

I will tell you a short story that I heard that addresses this point that I am aware of.

It took place in a Vietnamese prison camp, where they held American prisoners. One of the prisoners was a strapping 6’4 and somewhere around 270lbs of muscle. He thought he would run the camp. He started giving the guards some attitude. The next he knew he was fending off several 120lb Vietnamese guards. They eventually knocked him on the ground and dragged him away and gave him his attitude adjustment.

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