| My apologies, dear Reader. This was meant to be linked to yesterday’s Bloid, but I stacked the two articles together and set them for today, breaking the link. |
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead..." for her convicted son.
Leanne Depa pleaded for leniency for the now-18-year-old Brendan Depa, who faces up to 30 years behind bars for slamming Matanzas High School paraprofessional Joan Naydich to the floor before kicking and punching her in the back and head more than a dozen times.
In her first public appearance since the February beatdown, the grieving mother Wednesday begged Naydich to request that the 6-foot-6 teenager be handed a lighter punishment.
"I am so sorry for what my son did and nobody should ever have to go through that," Leanna Depa said on an appearance on NewsNation’s "Banfield" through tears.
"But at the same time, please consider that my son has had a hard life and he’s gone through so much trauma in his life. He has autism. Please show mercy to him."
Brendan Depa pleaded guilty last month to beating Naydich over the video game when he was just 17, leaving her with five broken ribs, hearing loss and what she claims are ongoing cognitive problems.
The disturbing incident — and teachers’ futile attempts to stop the attack — was captured on the school’s surveillance footage.
Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail has more.
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