'life turned upside down': florida teacher's aide, victim of brutal beating, living off donations

“everybody that knows me or knew me (before the attack), knows that i’m a totally different person now,” joan naydich told orlando fox affiliate wofl . “my whole life was just turned upside down.”

naydich, who has a son and daughter, said she is living off gofundme donations organized by a friend, which has accumulated more than $122,000 since late february .

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“all i remember is walking to the door and my hand on the doorknob,” naydich told the daytona beach news-journal . “and that’s the last i remember until coming to, the last real full thing i remember until coming to at the hospital.”

depa, now 18, faces up to 30 years in prison after he pleaded no contest to an aggravated battery charge , a first-degree felony . he is scheduled to be sentenced jan. 31.