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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His adopted parents warned the school but no one listened. Public schools were only interested in the extra money because he was special needs. What did they ever do to teach him to control his temper?
Sounds like everything was this kids trigger. Special school or confinement he was a danger to anyone he came in contact with.
I think the kid needed to be in a Nervous Hospital and that is where the judge should have sent him for 5 years. Honestly he should have been sent to a long term facility before this incident happened. Why it did not happen is just beyond me.
Piss on the ADA and open the asylums again.
Not everybody is equal no matter how many times you say it.
good. that poor teacher should have never had to deal with this so called ‘school boy.’ i pray that the young man learns humility, turns his life around, and finds God in prison. from now on, fully trained, hopefully male, guards will pull all and any necessary ‘triggers’ for him.
This kid deserved at least 10-15 years hard time for this.
Castrate him. Sounds like a testosterone issue.
Obviously no impulse control.
As Conrad Veidt once said about a prisoner, "We amputated his … enthusiasm.
That is the most Bull**** list of "warnings" I have ever seen.
"Let my precious kid do whatever he wants, never say no, and never correct him".
No public school can do that or every ghetto kid will come with the same set of instructions in a few years.
With any luck he will kill a useless criminal in prison and get life...
That is the most Bull**** list of "warnings" I have ever seen.
"Let my precious kid do whatever he wants, never say no, and never correct him".
No public school can do that or every ghetto kid will come with the same set of instructions in a few years.
With any luck he will kill a useless criminal in prison and get life...
Not getting his way is the trigger.
He will learn in the prison the meaning of the word no.
FSP! If he even gets out he will recidivise or Michael Brown within a year. Schadenfreude!
The sentence was not long enough. My trigger is thugs committing violent crimes.
When I was in sixth grade, one of my friends from elementary school brought a knife of some sort to school - I think it was the Swiss Army variety. For that, he was sent to a BD school until our sophomore year of high school.
This guy should have been in an institution where he can be taught over time to cope with stressors. Being told, “No” is a trigger? Are you kidding me? How is this guy going to cope in the real world? Is he just going to have his nose buried in a portable console for all of adulthood? Dependent on everyone around him and at the same time posing a threat to them?
Absolutely insane. That woman deserves a massive settlement from the school district for putting her in such danger. They obviously knew how volatile he was.
His adoptive parents did all they could for him. It got to a point where they could do no more and had to put him in a group home. It was the group home that sent him to public school against his adoptive parents advise and warnings. I think they would have put him in a long term Nervous Hospital if they could have but we all know those things don’t exist anymore.
Really that teacher should sue that group home, they knew.
“When I was in sixth grade, one of my friends from elementary school brought a knife of some sort to school - I think it was the Swiss Army variety. For that, he was sent to a BD school until our sophomore year of high school.”
when I was in school kids has pocket knives and no one thought anything of it. Back then kids were not complete psychos. Some kids sat on the playground and widdled wood in their down time, then put the knife away when it was time to go to class.
No excuse for violence, ever. And that teacher should be suing the school district for huge damages that such a monster with “triggers” was allowed in the school. I have a 2 year old that has “triggers” but he is way less than half as tall and he is being taught that he needs to mature beyond the terrible twos.
The best analogy I can make is that dealing with such kids is like taming a feral cat. Due to infirmities of mind, such kids lack the normal development of executive control that is part of growing up for human children.
Over time, from a low standard, such kids tend to gradually learn impulse control through coaching and by developing self-discipline. The lure is to be able to return to be with other kids and take part in class activities of their own accord. In short, with such kids, carrots and treats, patience, praise, and sympathy work better than sticks and confrontation.
My very limited knowledge of special education kids is that such an approach works. My mother was a founding member of a women's group that raises funds for a Catholic special education school. And the school used the alternative approach, which now has increasing academic support.
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