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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Centralized school systems are designed by lawyer/legislators by the one size fits all method.
Too bad his victim wasn’t armed.
With any luck at all, his next target will be armed.
Then the do-gooders won’t have to worry about him going to prison ...
When did anyone in the past ever think of teaching school as a hazardous occupation? It is now in many places. Not only is it hazardous for the teachers but just going to school is hazardous for the students too. In the past it was limited to bad areas but now, with mainstreaming, it is pretty much everywhere.
In about 1992, the district we were in "blended" schools moving some children from one to another and even closing one school that had very bad test results. I happened to be present the day at the end of the year before the actual blending took place and they "introduced" the children from the closing school. When they walked in the hush was deafening. The new kids were ghetto thugs brought into a flock of sheep. What was going on was driven by developers and realtors. They would work with the school board to raise test scores in areas with new developments that needed to be sold. Mostly sold areas took the hit. The area we had moved to consisted of upper middle class and high achievers, it was sold and now standards could be sacrificed for the next instant suburb. That summer we moved and stayed ahead of the mess long enough to get our children graduated from a decent and much smaller school district. Test scores went down in the school we left, trouble went up and the football team improved remarkably.
Suing could help this victim but it will not change the system. The liberal education system will not get the message. Neither will the school boards, their hands are mostly tied by regulation and law. They can't discriminate against any disadvantaged class and so they make all of us disadvantaged. Sounds like socialism doesn't it? Spreading misery around equally?
My wife was a para for 20 years. Thank God she never had to deal with someone like him, but the signs of the school letting the kids do whatever they wanted were starting to pop up. Then COVID happened, and the schools closed for a time. THAT’S when she retired.
You might want to read his story at the link I posted.
He was never "indulged", he suffers from Level 3 Autism that the parents have had to deal with his entire life.
He is not an evil person and prison will do nothing for him. He needs skilled, medical supervision, not prison guards.
“Leann Depa, his adoptive mother, said she had warned the school about her son’s laundry list of triggers.”
I’m sure “triggers” will always be a large factor in his life, especially at the end. If you get my drift.
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.
Just get him out of normal society
He’s where he needs to be - locked up.
this guy was a product of the sate taking care of him. a government employee could screw up dumping out an ice chest.
They really threw the book at him. He will be back in school in less than 30 days.
When i was going to school. the School could kick people who did not want to be there or didn’t need to be there like this guy when they turned 16.
Now, to get Federal Money, the School Board keeps them until they begin drawing Social Security payments.
The Schools never listen. If a few teachers get crippled, shot, or killed the Administration does not give a damn. All that matters is that the kid remain in school so that the School Board continues to collect the Federal Money.
if he has the emotional maturity of a 4-6 year old how the hell did his mom think high school was where he belonged? She was living in a fantasy world from the beginning.
Federal money. For every student the school has, they get so much Federal money per day per student. At the end of the school year, that is quite a bit of chump change.
Kid should have been tasered starting at about age 10
He’d be fine by now.
You have to work hard and do subtraction to figure out that he got 5 years.
From the beginning of his time at ECHO, I expressed my reservations about Brendan being placed in the public school system. I was told by ECHO that Brendan had to attend a public school because the Agency for Persons with Disabilities only covered day programs for clients who had graduated high school or turned 22. I was assured by the group home that they place all their clients in the public schools and that a crisis team was only ten minutes away. It took a few months for the school to complete testing and for the Individual Education Program (IEP) meeting to occur.
In a mental hospital, yes. But not a prison
in a coffin ...
I’m ok in prison.....they have facilities for him there. He knew what he was doing was wrong. I’m ok if not in facilities as well.
“That kid needs to be in a cage.”
You are weird.
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