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The mother of the hulking Florida teen who beat his female teacher unconscious over a Nintendo Switch video game claimed prison time would be a “death sentence” for her convicted son.

Leanne Depa pleaded for leniency for the now-18-year-old Brendan Depa, who faces up to 30 years behind bars for slamming Matanzas High School paraprofessional Joan Naydich to the floor before kicking and punching her in the back and head more than a dozen times.

In her first public appearance since the February beatdown, the grieving mother Wednesday begged Naydich to request that the 6-foot-6 teenager be handed a lighter punishment.

“I am so sorry for what my son did and nobody should ever have to go through that,” Leanna Depa said on an appearance on NewsNation’s “Banfield” through tears.

“But at the same time, please consider that my son has had a hard life and he’s gone through so much trauma in his life. He has autism. Please show mercy to him.”

Brendan Depa pleaded guilty last month to beating Naydich over the video game when he was just 17, leaving her with five broken ribs, hearing loss and what she claims are ongoing cognitive problems.

The disturbing incident — and teachers’ futile attempts to stop the attack — was captured on the school’s surveillance footage.

Brendan Depa faces up to 30 years in prison for the brutal attack. Nigel Cook/News-Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK
Naydich has previously told NewsNation that she wants her attacker sentenced to the maximum of 30 years behind bars.

“I feel like if he gets sentenced to prison, it’s a death sentence for him. He’s scared. And to have your child call and cry and say, ‘I don’t want to die’ — it’s awful,” Leanne Depa said.

The mourning mom blamed a laundry list of mental disabilities and a history of childhood trauma for her son’s behavior — and questioned why he was even permitted inside the Florida public school.

Leanne Depa pleaded for leniency for her son during a NewsNation interview. NewsNation

Leanne Depa claimed that jail time would be a “death sentence” for her autistic teenager. Leanne Depa
Brendan Depa — who grapples with severe autism, ADHD, oppositional defiance disorder and reactive explosive disorder — was placed in the school by his intensive behavioral group home despite his time at an autism behavioral hospital just two years earlier, she said.

“I had always homeschooled him because he didn’t handle the school environment. I asked the group home, ‘Did he have to go to public school? Could he not do school online?’ And I was assured by them that all of their clients went to public school,” Leanne Depa said.

“I never thought he belonged in public school. I didn’t have a choice.”

Leanne Depa added that he should have never been near the Nintendo Switch during school hours and that a crisis team is typically called before professionals take the game away.

Naydich said she had never taken the game away from the teenager, but that he lashed out after another faculty member prohibited him from playing with it.

Brendan Depa’s behavioral issues, particularly his autism, do not constitute a defense in Florida, according to the mother.

Victim Joan Naydich said she wants her attacker to receive the maximum sentence of 30 years behind bars. David Tucker\News Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK
The teenager was initially charged as a juvenile before the federal raps were upgraded.

The troubled teen had three prior battery arrests before the assault on Naydich and was reportedly involved in a jail fight in September.

Brendan Depa is being held on a $1 million bond. His sentencing hearing will begin in January.

Here's a bonus for you, sick bastards.

 

[Mariposa2.0 LTE]

People like to claim autism without diagnosis. It's fashionable, even. Wonder if this story will finally rid us of that "Uwu, I'm so autistic, I really like trains," bullshit.

Lol, I'm sure he was a fucking crack baby. FAS and drugs often result in pathological behavior due to an underactive frontal lobe....especially ODD

 

[OrionBalls]

Lol, I'm sure he was a fucking crack baby. FAS and drugs often result in pathological behavior due to an underactive frontal lobe....especially ODD

If we don't laugh, we cry?

 

[Elderly Homosexual Negro]

>White woman has giant chimp son.
>Giant chimp chimps out on Jewish woman.
>Beats an actual dent into a Jews nose.
>Jew wants him to have the maximum sentence.
>White mother begs for him to get a slap on the wrist because he’s a dumb chimp.

This is almost Shakespearean.

 

[Safir]

Are you telling me it wasn't a deprived environment and lack of access to nutritious food, social support networks and affirmation? It was because he was a goddamn nigger???

This is retarded and so are you. It was adopted by a ytoid. It's not an average nigger, it's an ultra FAS savage nigger retard whose biological mother couldn't care for it. Every professional racist knows that an intractable problem with "nurture" studies is that most adopted children are inherently fucked.

Ideally he'd be in a mental institution for life but prison will suffice.

I don't know how US mental institutions are, but I expect them to be soy and house innocent retards, too, with various restrictions on what personnel can do, to protect patient dignity. Unless it's to be housed in a supermax, with orderlies who can bench press 700 pounds raw, it should be in prison.

I'm surprised she [the victim] isn't lobbying for his death.

It'd make her "unsympathetic" to the likely soy judge/jury and they'd want to punish her for raycism and let it walk free. Asking for the full 30 years is as much as she can do.

Right, im not usually on the AN Derangement Syndrome side but sometimes people demonize someone purely for the fact she [the mother] is a white woman

Even if you don't want to blame the mother for this incident, she wants it free. This alone is enough to demonize her.
This also means she's irresponsible and likely culpable for the incident, too.

But I need the militantly pro life people to understand that kids with RAD
(...)
a decade of intensive therapy

With what? Any and all arguments by proponents of "therapy" are automatically invalid. Your retarded labels are no better than "racist" or "transphobe".

> His behavioral plan had some strategies in place that were meant to prevent negative behaviors. Here are three of them:

1. Use humor with Brendan and build a positive rapport. Avoid negative/corrective statements even after behaviors targeted for reduction have occurred.
2. Do not talk about his behaviors in front of him.
3. Avoid correcting, reprimanding, or redirecting Brendan in the presence of peers.

This is wild on a permanent basis -- handlers are literally forbidden from correcting its behavior ever, they're supposed to just keep him happy -- but good rules to follow around chimps until you can get somewhere safe.

The media was too busy outrage farming to bother reporting the facts. Mom didn't think school was an appropriate environment, but the home, the school and the government knew better. As it turns out, prison is not the appropriate place.

Prison is the appropriate place. It wasn't improving and wasn't going to improve. Its "treatment" consisted of simply trying not to trigger it. It needs a regimented environment and strong handlers who are authorized to use force. Not absurdly uneconomical coddling or an even more uneconomical vegetable state.

Negresses are just as violent as their male counter parts and I'd argue even more prone to starting shit.

Negresses are vastly less violent than male niggers, what are you on.

I have to wonder how bad the cognitive problems are, your body can (probably) heal but if your brain just never quite works the same then I totally understand not having mercy when it comes to the sentencing.

WHY IS MERCY THE DEFAULT? Why does applying a sentence directly from the code needs a special reason?
If you want to have the retarded mercy song and dance for social cohesion, all sentences need to account for that and be increased at least threefold, like list prices at a black friday sale. Assault? That'll be 100 years -- [perfunctory mercy plea] -- 30 years, kthx and bai.

 

[Fartificial Insmelligence]

This is just a list of TNB. And "Oppositional Defiance Disorder" is actually "Boy Who Learns Early That His Single Mother Is Weak And Can't Discipline Him".

Not to make this a tranny thread, but I find it funny that ODD is considered a real disorder, but wanting to lop your cock off and wear a dress isn’t, and you’re a bigot for thinking it should be…

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

Mainstreaming has been a disaster for both disabled kids and the normal kids forced to deal with them.

Yup. School budgets are completely fucked because of the astronomical amount of money they have to spend on the retarded students. And people aren't going into teaching because now half their classes have some sort of "disability" they have to tiptoe around and follow complex IEPs at the threat of being personally sued. The ADA is one of the most damaging pieces of legislation ever passed because "reasonable accommodation" now means pretty much anything they want.

 

[God of Nothing]

Lol, I'm sure he was a fucking crack baby. FAS and drugs often result in pathological behavior due to an underactive frontal lobe....especially ODD

you can take the nigger out of the hood but you can't take the hood out of a nigger

 

[allthewaydowntotheballbag]

She's probably right about prison time being a death sentence for him. Someone with the social skills of an autist would probably get shanked pretty quickly. The best solution would be to release him in his natural habitat in the wilderness of Congo.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Yup. School budgets are completely fucked because of the astronomical amount of money they have to spend on the retarded students. And people aren't going into teaching because now half their classes have some sort of "disability" they have to tiptoe around and follow complex IEPs at the threat of being personally sued. The ADA is one of the most damaging pieces of legislation ever passed because "reasonable accommodation" now means pretty much anything they want.

The ADA is great. The problem is people like this guy cannot be reasonably accommodated. Trying to results in all the IEP kids with a future suffering. A reasonable accommodation for full blown tards is not having them in normal classrooms or inclusion class. Inclusion class is basically just a second study hall for IEP kids.

 

[Kugelsak Kastengrus 6th]

She's probably right about prison time being a death sentence for him. Someone with the social skills of an autist would probably get shanked pretty quickly. The best solution would be to release him in his natural habitat in the wilderness of Congo.

I still think they would more likely use him as an attack ape in prison. He'd be an excellent shock trooper if some gang members want to send a message.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

I don't know how US mental institutions are, but I expect them to be soy and house innocent retards, too, with various restrictions on what personnel can do, to protect patient dignity. Unless it's to be housed in a supermax, with orderlies who can bench press 700 pounds raw, it should be in prison.

Hm, good point...

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

I jump to conclusions. I try not to, I say I am going to do better next time. Here I was screaming to put the violent ape in jail for the rest of his life. As it turns out, the kid is a retard and his adopted family has done everything they possibly could to prevent this from happening. Here is an article written by the mom who is an occupational therapist:

TLDR don't care. Throw the nigger mongoloid in a cell and lose the key. Bleeding hearts are how we got here.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

It's sad to realize that this person has ruined the lives of his adoptive mother and the assistant. And whoever spawned him just walked away completely unscathed.

Probably the mother of several other crack or FAS babies. You don't become that tarded in a vacuum.

 

[frozen_runner]

The amount of behavior techs I have to hear from that get bitten and beaten a day makes me wonder how serious incidents like these aren’t move common.

> behavior techs



"Help, help! I've encountered a radical glitch in the system!"

 

[draggs]

Oppositional defiance disorder and reactive explosive disorder aren't real

They're just buzz terms to justify endless ineffective therapy for being an asshole. There's always been a much cheaper and more effective way to treat someone being an asshole, beat their ass

 

[Odd Opossum]

Oppositional defiance disorder and reactive explosive disorder aren't real

They're just buzz terms to justify endless ineffective therapy for being an asshole. There's always been a much cheaper and more effective way to treat someone being an asshole, beat their ass

I can't believe someone would talk about Null in such a way.

 

[draggs]

I can't believe someone would talk about Null in such a way.

His oppositional defiance and reactive explosiveness about the bread, meat, and cheese he crams his maw with was the last straw

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

I can't believe someone would talk about Null in such a way.

*Proceeds to give unsolicited opinions on women and 4chan then tells yourself to kill yourself. Ban if you make fun of him*

 

[The Feline Solution]

Leanne Depa added that he should have never been near the Nintendo Switch during school hours and that a crisis team is typically called before professionals take the game away.

My fucking sides
Didn't even know this dude is looking at 30 years, surprisingly uncucked potential sentence.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

Tards in general know what they are doing most of the time since they know that certain actions get them their desired result no matter how fucked up their methods are.

*cough*ChrisChan*cough*