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Community Forum / Forum Talk - 4 months ago

‘I Don’t Think He’ll Survive Prison’: Mother of 270-Pound Autistic Teen Sentenced for Brutal Assault Says He Paid the Price for Being a Big, Black Boy After Judge Rejects Her Plea for House Arrest

Brendan Depa, a 6-foot-6, 270-pound Black teenager who brutally assaulted a teacher’s aide in Florida last year, was sentenced to five years in state prison and 15 years of probation on Tuesday, despite the pleas of his adoptive mother to let him st...