This awful incident made headlines last week:
This week, meanwhile, we learn that the violent student in question is facing decades behind bars — and it's not hard to understand why:
A teenage boy accused of punching and kicking his teaching assistant in a row over a Nintendo Switch will be charged as an adult - after being arrested for battery three times in 2019.
Brendan Depa, 17, can be named for the first time after the Seventh Judicial Court of Florida ruled that he would be transferred to adult court and is currently being held on a $1million bond according to court documents.
He is facing an aggravated battery charge - a felony - after he allegedly attacked Joan Naydich, 57, at Matanzas High School on February 21.
He was arrested three times for battery in 2019? So he was, what 14 or 15 at the time?
Can someone explain to me why this kid was still allowed in a regular school if he has obviously violent tendencies?
He previously completed a Department of Juvenile Justice program.
Yeah, I'd say this "program" didn't work. Probably worth it for taxpayers to check into just what those things consist of.
Apparently Flagler County did used to have somewhere where guys like this could go. But, well:
According to Fox there used to be a school dedicated to troubled teens in Flagler County, for pupils who struggled to function in a traditional classroom environment.
That included those who had been convicted of a crime, or were considered too violent to attend classes on traditional campuses.
But Flagler County voters failed to pass a 50-cent property tax levy to pay for the school back in 2013.
