A ‘traumatized’ trainer’s aide who was brutally overwhelmed by a 270lb scholar has stated she is ‘overwhelmed’ by the assist – and denies having taken a recreation console from the pupil.
Brendan Depa, 17, is going through an aggravated battery cost – a felony – after he allegedly attacked Joan Naydich, 57, at Matanzas Excessive College on February 21.
{The teenager} instructed police that Naydich, a instructing assistant on the college, had taken his Nintendo Swap from him which brought about the outburst.
However now Naydich has denied doing so, saying that it was ‘misinformation’ and he or she ‘needed to set the report straight.’
The hulking 6’6″ scholar was caught on digital camera viciously beating the ‘humble’ mother-of-two till she was unconscious.
Joan Naydich, 57, who was brutally overwhelmed by a 270lb scholar has stated she is ‘overwhelmed’ by the assist – and denies having taken a recreation console from the pupil
Depa will be named after the Seventh Judicial Courtroom of Florida dominated that he can be transferred to grownup court docket and is presently being held on a $1million bond in accordance with court docket paperwork.
Naydich has spoken out for the primary time following the incident, commenting on a GoFundMe which was set as much as assist her.
The web page has raised practically $60,000, and the instructing aide stated she was ‘overwhelmed with the thought of the lengthy combat forward. Your contributions are lessening that burden and I am actually grateful!
‘I am hopeful that the attention of this incident being unfold far and broad will stop anybody else from ever coping with the trauma, bodily therapeutic and disruption of on a regular basis life that this has brought about.
‘It is touching to know that so many care. This definitely wasn’t how I noticed my son’s senior 12 months turning out for our household.’
Depa is seen knocking Naydich to the bottom earlier than kicking and punching the unconscious lady no less than 15 occasions within the again and head.
These convicted of aggravated battery of a college board official in Florida can withstand 30 years in jail for the first-degree felony.
Depa has additionally been ordered to not contact the instructing assistant by the court docket, and he’ll seem for his arraignment on March 6.
Brendan Depa, 17, will be named for the primary time after the Seventh Judicial Courtroom of Florida dominated that he can be transferred to grownup court docket
The mother-of-two (pictured collectively) has spoken out for the primary time following the incident, commenting on a GoFundMe which was set as much as assist her
The coed was arrested and brought to the Sheriff Perry Corridor Inmate Detention Facility, earlier than being turned over to the Division of Juvenile Justice
Paperwork seen by DailyMail.com present Depa was charged with battery thrice in 2019 earlier than the assault this month.
He beforehand accomplished a Division of Juvenile Justice program. Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly supported the choice to cost him as an grownup within the newest incident.
Naydich additionally needed to handle allegations that she took his recreation away from him, including: ‘For all you keyboard warriors, I simply wish to set the report straight. I by no means took the Nintendo Swap from him.
‘From anybody that is learn or heard in a different way, I have been instructed this was sadly misinformation.
‘As the method continues, there can be many updates alongside the way in which! Your ideas and prayers by way of all of this are appreciated greater than .’
In line with the state legal professional’s workplace, Depa ‘did really and deliberately contact or strike (the sufferer) in opposition to the need of (her) and in doing so used a lethal weapon, and/or deliberately or knowingly brought about nice bodily hurt, everlasting incapacity, or everlasting disfigurement.’
In surveillance footage, launched by the Flagler County Sheriff’s Workplace, the hulking scholar will be seen speeding as much as Naydich earlier than launching her throughout the room
Joan Naydich’s physique flew a number of ft earlier than she was knocked unconscious. The coed had stated he would ‘beat her up each time she takes away his recreation’
Sheriff Staly stated: ‘This scholar is simply six months shy of age 18, and it was additionally a brutal assault on this trainer. Luckily, this did not end in a fatality.
‘This may very well be a murder we’re speaking about.’
Naydich has since been launched from hospital and is recovering at house following the savage beating.
She has a son who attends the highschool and a daughter who graduated in 2013. Nayditch has labored for Flagler County Faculties since 2004, and at Matanzas since 2021.
In surveillance footage, launched by the Flagler County Sheriff’s Workplace, the hulking scholar will be seen speeding as much as Naydich earlier than launching her throughout the room, her physique flying a number of ft.
She hits the bottom head-first, rendering her unconscious, with the scholar instantly kicking Naydich earlier than kneeling right down to punch her within the head and torso.
One other lady runs as much as the scholar and grabs his arm, however is unable to drag him off the aide earlier than a number of others rush to tug him off her.
Even after they handle to push him to the bottom, he nonetheless reaches his leg out to hit Naydich a number of extra occasions.
She hits the bottom head-first, rendering her unconscious. The coed instantly begins kicking her earlier than kneeling right down to punch her within the head and torso
It took 5 workers members to restrain and drag the boy away from Naydich’s physique as he fought in opposition to them
It takes 5 workers members to restrain and drag him away from her physique as he fought in opposition to them.
Depa claimed he would ‘beat her up each time she takes away his recreation,’ and spat on Naydich as deputies escorted him away, in accordance with the arrest report.
In bodycam footage, the scholar will be seen asking officers if he’s ‘going to jail,’ whereas they handcuff him within the college.
‘For a way lengthy?’ the scholars requested. ‘I do not know,’ the officer replied.
Moments later he instructed officers: ‘F**ok you, I do not wish to go to jail. I’ve extra vital issues to do,’ earlier than accusing them of manhandling him.
In line with Fox there was once a college devoted to distressed teenagers in Flagler County, for pupils who struggled to perform in a conventional classroom atmosphere.
That included those that had been convicted of against the law, or had been thought-about too violent to attend courses on conventional campuses.
However Flagler County voters did not cross a 50-cent property tax levy to pay for the varsity again in 2013.
Sheriff Staly added: ‘We had a college useful resource officer assigned to that mini-school if you’ll, and that is been eradicated.
‘Possibly that is one thing the district ought to have a look at.’