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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone remember the teacher in FL who got kicked to a pulp in the school hallway by a deranged SN kid?

The police chief said she was lucky to have survived.[/quote]

It was Bradon Depa a 17 year student who is 66" and 270 pounds. I am so tired of hearing that he has autism and should't be held accountable. It is in court records his IQ is 97 (that is the 42nd percentile rank) and in the past it was measured as being much higher. When he was asked as part of a compentancy hearing if he knew what a defense attorney did he was able to say that it is someone who tries to prove him not guilty. Then added, "But that’s not going to work. They have video evidence against me."

So his mother makes it seems as though he was practically nonverbal and intellectually disabled. His mother homeschooled instead of enrolling him in school where he could get help. Then when she couldn't control him as a young teen she would call the police and then her insurance paid for residential care.Then when he was realized his family didn't want him back because they coundn't copw with him so they put him in a group home. The group home to get him off electronics had to call a behavior team. There is plenty of documentation of numerous outbursts, his habit of spitting on those who offended him, of threatening them with harm or death, and at times of attacking them physically and having to be restrained or repeatedly suspended.

Then a behaviorist comes up with a behavior plan that includes the following:
    1.Use humor with Brendan and build a positive rapport. Avoid negative/corrective statements even after behaviors targeted for reduction have occurred.
    2.Do not talk about his behaviors in front of him.
    3.Avoid correcting, reprimanding, or redirecting Brendan in the presence of peers.

This is ridiculous. You can never correct him? You can't even redirect him if there are other students as in "let's do this assignment" or "it makes people upset when you spit on them".  This is what teachers are up against. He first spit on the aide. But according to his behavior plan no adult is allowed to say anythin to him. The aide quickly walked out of the room to escape and he followed her. He brutally knocked her to the floor and punched and kicked her as she was helpless on the ground.  Essentially that behavior plan means no one is even supposed to say anything to him as he is attacking her because that would mean they would be talking about his behaviors in front of him, redirecting him, and using negative/corrective statements. The staff were all supposed to use humor instead. As the police hauled him away he threatened to kill her and come back and murder her. He previously pushed down another aid who was harmed,

Now the mother is suing the district because the IEP wasn't followed. Interestingly enough in the lawsuit it says he was diagnosed with Other Health Impaired and Emotional and Behavioral Disorder but autism isn't listed.  This student should have been in a more restrictive setting. [/quote]

He and his mother are monsters and liars and awful people. I think the same about the Newport News 6 year old. Every adult in his life was a dishonest excuse-making self-pitying lowlife including his 60 something *great* grandfather. That kid will kill one or more people before he turns 15. And this giant-assed monster should be imprisoned; he’s got massive size and strength and a lifetime of zero shame or boundaries, even including the diagnoses.

Some people are born sociopathic or psychopathic and the federal laws require they be included with functional, vulnerable children and teachers. Mixed right in. It’s appalling.[/quote]

Brendan's mother was pleading for him to come home or be in another group home which would mean more special education teachers and staff would be at serious risk. Here are his behaviors that were documented in the trial:

Clark when she cross-examined Leann Depa almost immediately elicited the history of Brendan’s “problems with aggression,” at home, at the residential home in South Carolina, at Echo, punching staff, punching a psychiatrist several times, head-butting staff, throwing chairs, groping female staff inappropriately, attacking fellow-residents, ripping a door off. “Fair to say that his aggressive behavior was continuing well into his stay at ECHO,” Clark asked Depa, more as a statement than a question. Clark repeated the same questions to both the defense’s expert witnesses, bringing out more alarming behavior, “including being cruel or purposefully harming an animal,” that he often lied to get things he wanted, stole, “annoyed people on purpose,” and so on.

It's not surprising that now that he is a locked facility that he has made the most progress because there are immediate consequences for his behavior. No way he is punching or spitting in the faces of other guards or prisoners. The other prisoners will hit him back and the guards will give him consequences like solitary confinement.

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