The Florida teen who attacked and pummeled a teacher's aide over a Nintendo Switch was hit with five years in prison on Tuesday.
The Florida teen who beat his high school teacher's aide over a Nintendo Switch was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison. Brendan Depa, now 18, pleaded no contest last year to felony aggravated battery for the attack on paraprofessional Joan Naydich. The teacher was left with five broken ribs, hearing loss and a severe concussion, the New York Post reported.
He faced a maximum of 30 years in prison, according to the Daytona Beach News-Journal. The teen was also sentenced to 15 years of probation. When he's released from prison, he'll be placed in a group home, court records show. Depa's defense attorney unsuccessfully argued that the teen, who has autism spectrum disorder, should receive a probation-only sentence given his disability and age at the time of the attack.
But Assistant State Attorney Melissa Clark said the brutality of the assault warranted prison time. 'I counted 15 times that he punched her while she was completely unconscious,' Clark told the court, according to the News-Journal. 'But for those five people pulling him off, I don’t think she would be here today.' FLORIDA STUDENT ENTERS PLEA IN CASE OF VIRAL VIDEO ATTACK ON TEACHER The beatdown was captured on surveillance footage that has since gone viral.
The district should be held to account for its failures which have forever changed the trajectory of this young man’s life,' the lawsuit alleges.
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