Posted on 10/30/2023 8:33:49 PM PDT by Morgana
A teenage boy accused of punching and kicking his teaching assistant in a row over a Nintendo Switch has appeared in court and charged as an adult - after being arrested for battery three times in 2019.
Brendan Depa, now 18 but who was 17 at the time of the alleged beating was led shackled into court in Florida wearing an orange jumpsuit on Monday to face charges of aggravated battery - a felony.
He allegedly attacked teaching assistant Joan Naydich, 57, at Matanzas High School on February 21. The savage assault was caught on school surveillance cameras.
The 6'6" and 270lb student was caught viciously beating the 'humble' mother-of-two until she was unconscious, with Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly warning it 'could have been a homicide'.
In shocking video he is seen knocking Naydich to the ground before kicking and punching the unconscious woman at least 15 times in the back and head.
Those convicted of aggravated battery of a school board official in Florida can face up to 30 years in jail for the first-degree felony. The minimum recommended prison sentence is just short of three years.
Depa will be sentenced at the end of January. His own lawyer, Kurt Teifke, sought to have him declared incompetent to stand trial, because he is autistic.
A court-appointed psychologist found Depa was in fact competent to stand trial and Circuit Judge Terence Perkins will decided his fate early next year.
On Monday he pleaded 'no contest' to the charges against him.
Judge Perkins could sentence him either as an adult or as a juvenile offender.
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Too bad. He might have had a great career in the NFL.
He deserves the maximum
“Too bad. He might have had a great career in the NFL.”
Assuming any sort of athletic ability....
Just being big does not mean gifted.
I guess being in lock up no longer means you have to keep your hair short enough to ensure there are no mites creating colonies. No comb could pass through that nappy mess anyway.
The blacktivists are going to show up and you’ll also have the obligatory media hacks pleading for mercy as well.
I predict this heathen will get 3-5 years on an aggravated assault charge and only serve 18 months.
He won’t even do 3 years.
Yep. And the fathers grew up fatherless too. The only way to break this cycle is to abolish all welfare and the Earned Income Tax Credit.
Hopes he gets a lot of years in prison where other prisoners will fight back and do the same to him.
His lawyer says he’s autistic…..unbelievable .
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Animal control should have been euthanized him that very day.
Yeah, and it only took about three generations from LBJs Great society to destroy the black family culture through welfare.
Sad.
I have a distant inlaw who’s favorite president is LBJ, he even named his dog Lyndon after him. He’s just a young guy about 35ish. He didn’t live through LBJ like we did but he’s such a avid leftist that he thinks LBJ of all people was the greatest. Amazing to me. He’s not my favorite and he’s permanently off my Xmas list if you know what I mean.
Here’s the scary part, he’s a public high school history teacher here in Cali.
The problem with that is, most of the time you wouldn’t want the guys who sired these boys to be any where near your households. They’re violent, irresponsible drug addicts and gangsters in most inner city cases.
There is that one song with verse “He’d grown up just like me
My boy was just like me...”
I had an autistic cousin. I inherited numerous photographs from various relatives and a couple of years ago I found some of him and his brother with me and my brother all of us within a year of each other in age. Jonny was about five in the photograph. We never saw him at all after that, not even his brother did. He could not be trusted around people. He died this February in an institution at the age of 68.
In reality he has an IQ of 60, augmented with lack of impulse control, and force fed imaginary grievances 24/7.
Savage.
I’m sorry about how life turned out for your cousin.
Sometimes there is no “good” place for people, especially those who have proven capable of extreme violence. A family unit has to act to protect and maintain itself vs having everyone”s actions and lifestyle ruled by the unmanageable behavior of one individual.
Cat’s in the Cradle
Recorded by Harry Chapin
Written by his wife because he was constantly on tour. Chapin died in a car accident when his son was 9.
https://youtu.be/KUwjNBjqR-c?si=2yzRmowCwJ2ArbGo
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