Prison time for Florida teen who beat teacher over Nintendo Switch would be ‘death sentence’: tearful mom - Mom playing the autism card. But will it work?

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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.

 

[Tetragrammaton]

i keep seeing this case pop up on twitter and the arguments for and against him going to prison have been rather interesting. at the end of the day i think he should face some form of punishment since one of the worst things you can do with anyone suffering from any level of mental disability is let them know they wont get punished for stuff other people will.

it gives them a false understanding of the world and can even make them more willing to do dumb shit because they think they will just get sent to their room with no dinner or whatever the fuck.

however i also think the school should face some form of punishment for this as well. if the dude is really that autistic and they were well aware of this and just grouped him in with the normal kids they brought this upon themselves and the teacher should sue them.

i went to one of those schools where they would go on and on about how they never treat the special kids any different than the normal kids and you know what happened? the school was filled with a bunch of mini chris chans who all had their own trolls getting them to do shit they could laugh at. it was a mess and eventually they had to put an end to it because the trolls were telling the kids to go around and punch people and that it was totally fine to run up to any girl they liked and kiss them on the lips.

sometimes trying to treat these types of people like everyone else only makes things worse and i think that is what we are seeing here with this dude as well. the school pushed to have him in the system because they wanted to brag about how even kids with autism can thrive in their school but they had zero interest in handling him the right way and this is the result.

now as far as what punishment he should face? i do agree that sending him to prison is a death sentence especially if he is prone to sperg outs like that. unless all his cell mates felt bad for him and played tard wrangler the whole time he would end up getting stabbed in no time.

because of that i think his punishment should just be getting sent to some form of mental institution where he is given his meds and forced to operate on whatever schedule they have. its essentially the same as prison they could even monitor his behavior and decide to put him into actual prison down the line if it turns out he is not actually that autistic or whatever.

that solves the problem either way. not every criminal has to be sent to prison to get raped or stabbed or whatever especially the retards who wont even be able to comprehend it as punishment and will most likely die after a couple weeks locked up.

 

[HarblMcDavid]

Well mom laid out a fairly convincing case that the system fucked him long before he turned that woman's skull into crunch bar, and I'd tend to agree that Mom was right: he never should have been in public school. Government knows best though, dontcha know.

The fact the teachers were using the electronics in ways they were explicitly NOT to do under any circumstances according to the tard's instruction booklet, basically as a crutch for them, which led directly to the assault probably more than anything else, is mildly infuriating because jesus christ you had one job.

He still turned a woman's skull into a crunch bar though, if he can't function outside, which seems fairly obvious, he's gotta be inside somewhere.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

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.

*cough*ChrisChan*cough*

Chris Chan is white, though. That's a different type of retardation.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

The fact the teachers were using the electronics in ways they were explicitly NOT to do under any circumstances according to the tard's instruction booklet, basically as a crutch for them, which led directly to the assault probably more than anything else, is mildly infuriating because jesus christ you had one job.

Fine but that only leads to my position which is that there should not be any sort of kid gloves approach with these beasts. - Firstly, I don't believe the nigger is as retarded as is being claimed; it's just an excuse for his TNB chimpouts. If so, he should simply have been severely beaten/tasered the second he showed the slightest sign of aggression or disobedience. Treat him like an unruly animal.
Secondly, if he is truly so retarded as to be unmanageable, he should be euthanised, as he's a danger and a massive burden to society.

 

[Prehistoric Jazz]

@Cats If this guy got sent to a place you'd worked at, what would you predict of his situation?

 

[HarblMcDavid]

Fine but that only leads to my position which is that there should not be any sort of kid gloves approach with these beasts. - Firstly, I don't believe the nigger is as retarded as is being claimed; it's just an excuse for his TNB chimpouts. If so, he should simply have been severely beaten/tasered the second he showed the slightest sign of aggression or disobedience. Treat him like an unruly animal.
Secondly, if he is truly so retarded as to be unmanageable, he should be euthanised, as he's a danger and a massive burden to society.

Counterpoint: the government would be the ones doing the euthanizing, the same government that was convinced all of this was a good idea, so their competence in assessing the need for such euthanasia is somewhat suspect.

I agree on a certain level in theory because he is basically a 6 foot tall shitbull with a Nintendo Switch shaped proverbial baby munching trigger and it seems more cruel to force him to stick around given the cocktail of apparently paranoia inducing drugs he's on.

 

[Alligator Alcatraz]

He's not going to die even if he did get a full 30 years, but he should. This black kid has demonstrated he cannot conduct himself in civil society.

 

[stupid frog]

however i also think the school should face some form of punishment for this as well. if the dude is really that autistic and they were well aware of this and just grouped him in with the normal kids they brought this upon themselves and the teacher should sue them.

The teacher and the mom should sue the shit out of all of them for forcing this ape into the school in the first place.
He could have murdered another student, and almost did murder a teacher. They even say he's already done this shit.
When the white bitch dies, he's going to prison anyway. There will be no one to cry for the poor dumb lil Nigger then.

 

[Cats]

@Cats If this guy got sent to a place you'd worked at, what would you predict of his situation?

Probably be put in seg for being too retarded to interact with or be housed near anyone else, not for being dangerous or anything they just like to keep the tards that Skyview (the tard farm) wouldn't take segregated. There was a large number of 70 IQ niggers on a particular adseg cellblock in my unit they called them rejected vegetables because they had all been denied housing at skyview due to not being dumb or crazy enough.

 

[Sparkling Yuzu]

however i also think the school should face some form of punishment for this as well. if the dude is really that autistic and they were well aware of this and just grouped him in with the normal kids they brought this upon themselves and the teacher should sue them.

That teacher is going to have brain damage for life for being beaten unconscious. I hope she sues. They even tried to interfere with her employment for wanting the max sentence.

the system fucked him long before he turned that woman's skull into crunch bar, and I'd tend to agree that Mom was right: he never should have been in public school.

We never should have gotten rid of special public schools for kids with disabilities.

TNB chimpouts.

What is TNB? I only know TND.

Secondly, if he is truly so retarded as to be unmanageable, he should be euthanised, as he's a danger and a massive burden to society.

This is what society should do to violent tards that hurt others for no reason.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

What is TNB?

Typical Nigger Behaviour

 

[TowinKarz]

Everyone in this story did the wrong thing.

The school didn't handle him like they said they would
The handlers lost control of him
He beat an innocent person nearly to death over nothing but not being able to play a video game.

Yes, the school should be sued for negligence, but, that doesn't absolve him from liability for almost beating another person to death.

It's not an either-or situation.

In a hockey fight, BOTH people go to the penalty box, same here.

EVERYONE involved can and should be sanctioned.

The school needs sued

The tard wrangling department needs sued/replaced with people who will do a better job

And the kid who beat another person, again, half to death, needs sanctioned with jail, not timeout with no nuggies.

 

[AnotherPleb]

That teacher is going to have brain damage for life for being beaten unconscious. I hope she sues. They even tried to interfere with her employment for wanting the max sentence.

That's not even counting in the leaning that the Community Relations Service has done to her. Oh, what's that you may be asking? Allow Ebonic Tutor to enlighten you:

That's the Community Relations Service at work, I bet. (archive)

Every time that you see a family saying 'please don't punish that poor POC for attacking my loved one' you can be assured that the CRS has had a hand in pushing the narrative behind the scenes. It's had an impact in two high profile cases in Las Vegas alone, and that's not even getting into suspected cases like the Mollie Tibbets case. The more you look at things that could be racially charged the more you see the same talking points pop up, and the more obvious it becomes that a very clear narrative is being pushed by TPTB that POCs are not responsible for their oen bad behavior.

This teacher most assuredly was 'persuaded' to beg for leniency, and the fact that she's been retaliated against for a very natural reaction of 'fuck that asshole who curbstomped me' tells me they were unsuccessful here.

 

[cybertoaster]

Nah fuck him, lets see if he makes it to 47 given that in prison nobody is gonna put up with his 'tism bullshit.

>white mother

Is he adopted? or she's like the meme? should I even bother asking where's the dad?

“I feel like if he gets sentenced to prison, it’s a death sentence for him.

And that's bad because?

oppositional defiance disorder and reactive explosive disorder

That's a lot of words to say 'violent psycho'.

he would end up getting stabbed in no time.

and will most likely die after a couple weeks locked up.

Look at it this way: this shitstain is never going to contribute to anything, most likely he's gonna keep hurting people or even killing them, he's a net negative for society and a waste or resources, he's stealing oxygen from other people by just being alive.

Even from an ecological perspective we're talking millions of tons of CO2 gone if he gets shanked to death before he turns 18.

Probably be put in seg for being too retarded to interact with or be housed near anyone else, not for being dangerous or anything they just like to keep the tards that Skyview (the tard farm) wouldn't take segregated. There was a large number of 70 IQ niggers on a particular adseg cellblock in my unit they called them rejected vegetables because they had all been denied housing at skyview due to not being dumb or crazy enough.

What's skyview?

 

[Iron Jaguar]

The tard wrangling department needs sued/replaced with people who will do a better job

Yeah but how? Since the eighties it has been nearly impossible to properly deal with violent retards, thanks to bleeding heart judges, social workers and politicians. There's an old satirical version of the parable of the Good Samaritan, where some liberals find a man lying on the side of the road, beaten half to death and robbed, and they look at each other and say, "We need to find the person who did this...and get them help."

@cybertoaster
Nah fuck him, lets see if he makes it to 47 given that in prison nobody is gonna put up with his 'tism bullshit

I think the liberal dumbasses who've made excuses for him his entire life would be astonished at just how quickly his behavioural issues are straightened out after a couple of serious beatings from other inmates. He will no longer be surrounded by ineffectual, weak, White women; Jamal and Deondre aren't going to take kindly to his monkeyshines.

 

[Sparkling Yuzu]

the fact that she's been retaliated against for a very natural reaction of 'fuck that asshole who curbstomped me'

I hate it, it should be illegal to penalize someone's job because they didn't do something in the legal system that their employer wanted.

Is he adopted? or she's like the meme? should I even bother asking where's the dad?

Adopted, probably a crack baby.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

And he's going to get one.

P/L: there are ZERO circumstances under which you will find me even slightly empathetic towards these violent autistic monsters. I know too well just how terrifying it is to be a young child and have one forced into your classroom. It creates an atmosphere of fear for all the normal kids and the teacher.
The best thing that could've happened is if he'd attacked a cop and got himself euthanised.

Feels man. When I was in elementary school ( partially in the 20th century) we had literal drooling retards in our school. They were in a special classroom far away from everyone else and were pretty quiet. We'd see them once a semester during our school Spirit day. I do remember the always smelled weird, like sickly sweet.
Older and stronger tards HAVE to be kept away from other students and classrooms to stop them for ruining the education of the other students.

Most of the more hulking retards have a certain craftiness when it comes to their tard rages. They know which victim to pick along with when and where they can ambush them. Another and more glaring issue is that any records of violence are casually left out when any info is needed in regards to the tard and often as has to be dragged out from the higher ups. 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.

Basically 'tard cunning.

They instinctually understand they should go after the weakest targets.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

Adopted, probably a crack baby.

You can just say "nigger".

 

[Cats]

What's skyview?

The TDCJ unit where they keep all of the worst of the tards and crazies. It is one of the very few Texas prisons that has air conditioning, so plenty (and I do mean plenty) of convicts try to fake their way into being transferred there daily. Needless to say, it is always filled WAY to capacity and then some, and it is very hard to get housed there. it is only for the worst of the worst mentally deficient/genuinely schizoid convicted felons. So that means that the nearly-worst-case-scenario psychos and tards have to stay in the regular units...a problem which my last unit solved by keeping most of those freaks in Administrative Segregation.

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

Probably be put in seg for being too retarded to interact with or be housed near anyone else, not for being dangerous or anything they just like to keep the tards that Skyview (the tard farm) wouldn't take segregated. There was a large number of 70 IQ niggers on a particular adseg cellblock in my unit they called them rejected vegetables because they had all been denied housing at skyview due to not being dumb or crazy enough.

Do they call it Skyview because the veggies need sunlight?