Circuit Judge Terence Perkins sentenced Brendan Depa to five years in state prison followed by 15 years of probation. Depa swung his head back when the judge announced the 60-month sentence.

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 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, 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 ...

BUNNELL — Brendan Depa appeared to pray twice during his sentencing hearing for beating a teacher’s aide at Matanzas High School, an attack that was recorded in a viral video that became ...

In an attack that’s been viewed more than 10 million times across the globe, then-17-year-old Brendan Depa — 6 feet 7 inches tall and 270 pounds — pummeled Naydich with more than a dozen ...

Joan Naydich testified at the sentencing hearing for Brendan Depa, 18, who has pleaded no contest to a charge of aggravated battery on a school board employee. Attorney’s got through roughly ...

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 ...

Leanne Depa spoke out for the first time since Brendan Depa, then 17, violently attacked Joan Naydich at Matanzas High School in February after he was told to stop playing on his Nintendo Switch.

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.