Student accused of attacking teacher's aide over Nintendo Switch held on $1 million bail

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The charge against a Florida high school student accused of attacking a teacher's aide over a video game have been upgraded to adult court where he now faces a felony, according to court records.

The 17-year-old male accused in the assault which left the woman unconscious, was charged with aggravated battery on a school board employee, a first-degree felony punishable by up to 30 years in prison.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...gh-school-nintendo-switch-attack/11363828002/

Really happy this teen will be tried in adult court.
 

Lewkat said:
I hate to tell you what I'd do to that punk. I saw that video and saw red.
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Another report said he was 6' 6" & weighed over 300lbs. What would you do?
Not trying to be snarky just that some sympathize with kids "teens" as not yet being mentally capable of realizing the consequences of their actions.
 

I wonder if he was misdiagnosed for baby sitting purposes because he seem to know what he did and was going on with no problem. He asked if he was being arrested and told the victim as he is being pulled away he will kill her next time.

The teachers aid says she did not take the game control away. But what is game gear doing in a student's hands in a facility like that. Game play should be limited and allowed under supervision only. Also excessive gaming is now considered an addiction so even threatening to take away the game piece would like telling junky hand over their drugs.

Decades ago in my high school's town ALL the problem students wound up being sent to vocational type school/program. They still got their degrees but were seperated. Unless one had a really obvious psychiatric diagnosis and not one of these newer disorders or syndromes they were put in that program. Wouldn't be surprised if the teen was put in that program just to do 'something' with him.
 
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Knight said:
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The charge against a Florida high school student accused of attacking a teacher's aide over a video game have been upgraded to adult court where he now faces a felony, according to court records.

The 17-year-old male accused in the assault which left the woman unconscious, was charged with aggravated battery on a school board employee, a first-degree felony punishable by up to 30 years in prison.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...gh-school-nintendo-switch-attack/11363828002/

Really happy this teen will be tried in adult court.
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I'm glad the bail is high.

That guy is crazy, full of hate and has no control of himself. He's a violent person who should be in a hospital for the criminally insane.
 
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From the article in the OP...

Following the attack, the teen asked what was going to happen to him and whether he'd be allowed to return to his group home, according to a charging affidavit. When a deputy responded that he did not have an answer, the teen began kicking a desk and a computer system, causing a monitor to fall to the floor, the affidavit stated.

Group homes are for people with disabilities, from what I just read about them. He probably should have never been allowed in the high school in the first place. I smell a lawsuit!
 
He's obviously a dangerous, violent, and mentally unstable individual and will either end up in a prison psych ward or he'll be placed in a lockdown unit in a state-run psychiatric hospital, which is like prison. In either facility, he won't get the "treatment" he needs. Rather than receiving psychotherapy, which might help him improve, he'll be heavily medicated to keep him under control. That's what they do. There won't be any real help for his rehabilitation, but at least he'll be kept off the streets.
 
WhatInThe said:
Decades ago in my high school's town ALL the problem students wound up being sent to vocational type school/program. They still got their degrees but were seperated. Unless one had a really obvious psychiatric diagnosis and not one of these newer disorders or syndromes they were put in that program. Wouldn't be surprised if the teen was put in that program just to do 'something' with him.
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Back in the 70's, my late husband taught for two years in an "alternative high school" where three school districts sent their problem students, mostly druggie.

He said it was mostly "babysitting" as the majority had no intention of learning anything. It was just a holding pen until they were old enough to send to jail.

He also taught in a girl's reform school run by an order of nuns. The teacher he replaced had to have 27 stitches in his arm where one of the girls bit him.
 
The school security guard sure did take his time coming to the aid of the little woman. From the time he came around the corner and registered what was happening the kid got in 13 more punches.
 
SeniorBen said:
From the article in the OP...

Following the attack, the teen asked what was going to happen to him and whether he'd be allowed to return to his group home, according to a charging affidavit. When a deputy responded that he did not have an answer, the teen began kicking a desk and a computer system, causing a monitor to fall to the floor, the affidavit stated.

Group homes are for people with disabilities, from what I just read about them. He probably should have never been allowed in the high school in the first place. I smell a lawsuit!
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"I smell a lawsuit!" Definitely! Re the OP: I'm glad he will be tried as an adult and that the bail was set at a million.

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Is it clear yet if a video game was the issue or an issue. Did she simply tell him no game playing and to put it away or give it to her?
 

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