Teacher Brutalized by 270-lb Student Rejects Activists’ Pleas for Leniency, Wants Him to Face Maximum Sentence
A Florida teachers’ aide who was badly beaten by a 17-year-old student nearly a year ago wants her assailant to spend decades in prison for his crime. Brendan Depa, an autistic 270-pound, 6-foot-6-inch man now 18 who…
A Florida teachers’ aide who was badly beaten by a 17-year-old Student nearly a year ago wants her assailant to spend decades in prison for his Crime.
Brendan Depa, an autistic 270-pound, 6-foot-6-inch man now 18 who was tried as an adult, confessed to beating Joan Naydich and pleaded “no contest” to the single felony charge of aggravated battery filed against him after beating the school paraprofessional after she recommended that his Nintendo Switch be confiscated, according to Unilad.
That charge carries a sentence of up to 30 years in prison.
Depa’s victim has been calling for the maximum sentence all along.
“He definitely needs to be in jail,” Naydich told the New York Post. “He needs to be in jail for what he did to me. I’m in my own jail of sorts every single day I wake up.”
Naydich said she had lost her income and all of her benefits since suffering five broken ribs and a concussion in the beating.
She still has issues with her vision and hearing, she told the outlet.