The Florida teacher filmed being beaten senseless by a 270 pound student last year has refused to support a lighter sentence for the teen. Matanzas High School's Joan Naydich, 58, made the declaration Friday, as activists continue to fight for lesser sentence for the autistic high schooler, 18-year-old Brendan Depa.
I don't know how anyone who watched that footage could want a lesser sentence...
The footage quickly upset much of the nation, and is set to be used as evidence this month when Depa stands trial. He will be tried as an adult, with punishments ranging from probation to 30 years of jailtime.
But the usual suspects are determined that his behaviour should be excused on the grounds he's not mentally competent. Which seems to be a factor for the adults in his life, too...
Since the attack, Leanne Depa has fiercely maintained her son's actions were not his own fault, but the school district's - since his Individualized Education Plan (IEP) specifically stipulated he shouldn’t have had an electronic device at the time. That's because the youngster would likely rage if such an item were taken away - a forecast that unfortunately came to fruition this past February 21.
So the item was taken away. How can he not have an item and yet have it at the same time? It's not Schrödinger's Nintendo Switch!
Why is the mother a lily-white willowy American, and the teen in question a hulking black boy, anyway?
She adopted Depa when he was just six months old, though only started giving him medication a few years ago - after several manic outbursts.
Ah...
But his condition only worsened with the new substances, she said, telling the Post that the-then 14-year-old's behavior quickly became a nightmare.' This led Leanne to place him in an autism hospital in South Carolina in late 2019, where he was was ultimately discharged roughly a year later.
However, citing the teen's unpredictable behavior, Depa said she was hesitant to bring him back into her home, due to her husband having serious heart issues at the time, leaving him at particular risk if the teen ever snapped. That led her to drop him off a Palm Coast group home in November 2020, where he remained for more than a year until the home elected to send Depa to a traditional public high school.
So everyone in this case is 'not responsible' for what happened. Strange, because to me, the only person truly not responsible for what happened is the victim.
"The condition worsened with the new substances"
ReplyDeleteWe have heard that in too many cases from over there. It's apparently a common factor in most of their school shootings.
Translation.
ReplyDeleteThe "mother" adopted him to virtue signal (but mainly for the money), couldn't cope with him so fobbed him off on 'the authorities' (where she will have meddled, for attention and ... more money) and when, predictably, he is violent (after years of being encouraged, supported and excused for similar behaviour - what, you think this was his first rodeo?) in an inappropriate setting (she will have demanded) she ... sees another opportunity for attention (and money of course).
I have less sympathy for the victim than most, because working in such a place, employed in the role she was, she 'will' be as woke and leftist as it is possible to be (and will have been one of those advocating for the pandering and excuses that led to her being assaulted). On the other hand I actively despise the "mother" for the mercenary attention-whore she is.
Why do I suspect that if the typical judicial forgiveness (incompetence) occurs and he is sentenced to house-arrest ... at his mothers, she'd suddenly change her tune and demand he be incarcerated?
"It's apparently a common factor in most of their school shootings."
ReplyDeleteMedication issues have been a factor..? I'd have thought some crusading lawyer would have picked up on that, as the pharmacutical companies have deep pockets!
"The "mother" adopted him to virtue signal (but mainly for the money).."
I know that's a thing over here, but are foster families well paid in the states, with their stricter welfare rules?
Oh yes!
ReplyDeleteThere are countless examples of people (usually either single women, non-hetero or black - because there is less scrutiny 'allowed') having very comfortable lives with the earnings from "children farming" (the numbers of children who survive such, or a scarred for life is ... shocking). Relatively they receive even more than they so here for their "service" (and that's from someone who used to know a former head-teacher [fired for peccadilloes and incompetence who, being left-leaning, nevertheless had no trouble being approved] 'here' who 'farmed' and who paid her mortgage off and bought a new Jag on the 'proceeds').