Brendan Depa, the Matanzas High School student recorded in a viral video brutally beating a teacher's aide, was sentenced Tuesday to five years in state prison followed by 15 years of probation.

Brendan Depa, the former Matanzas High School student recorded in a viral video beating a teacher's aide, will be sentenced today at a hearing set to start at 1:30 p.m. at the Kim C. Hammond ...

Brendan Depa, now 18, threw his head back after Circuit Judge Terence Perkins handed down the punishment on Tuesday evening. Depa also received 15 years of probation after his release and will be ...

Brendan Depa, 18, pleaded no contest in February 2023 after a video showed him shoving, punching and kicking his paraprofessional after she took his video game away.The video shows Joan Naydich ...

Brendan Depa has autism, and his mother criticized the sentence, saying her son is "going to be taken advantage of or harmed" in prison Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE.

Brendan Depa, the severely autistic Florida teen whose assault on teacher’s aide Joan Naydich went viral last year, was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in state prison followed by 15 years of ...

Brendan Depa, now 18, was still a minor when he attacked paraprofessional Joan Naydich in a hallway inside Matanzas High School in February 2023. Security footage captured the 6 foot 6 inch-270 ...

Brendan Depa threw his head back as a judge sentenced him to five years in a Florida state prison. Back in 2023, Depa attacked a teacher’s assistant, leaving her with five broken ribs ...

The teen, Brendan Depa, is on the severe end of the autism spectrum and has been diagnosed as having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder – which ...

These diagnoses led to a lifetime of doctors, mental health professionals, and institutions designed to help people like Depa ...