Son of Paul Pelosi’s Attacker David DePape Breaks His Silence

The man accused of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home and battering her elderly husband with a hammer has suffered a traumatic life full of abuse, his son has told DailyMail.com exclusively.

‘There is ‘almost no person on this planet that has gone through so much suffering,’ Nebosvod ‘Sky’ Gonzalez said. ‘If you look into his eyes, you can see he’s such a sad person.

‘He isn’t a danger to society, I don’t even know if he even attacked Mr. Pelosi. For all that we know he was some sort of sex slave, as Elon Musk pointed out.’

DePape, 42, is due in court in San Francisco Wednesday for an arraignment on state charges including attempted murder, first-degree residential burglary, elder abuse, assault with a deadly weapon, and threatening family members of public officials in connection with the October 28 attack on Paul Pelosi, 82.

He has also been charged in federal court.

On the eve of the state hearing, his older son came to his defense.

‘He often told us he was raised in an abusive home and would be physically abused by his grandparents,’ Sky, 19, said.

He said that DePape, 42, told him and his brother Daniel, now 17, that his parents had pawned him off to his grandparents, who were physically abusive.

Instead of staying around to take the abuse, DePape would escape to the ocean to swim until the day was over, Gonzalez said.

When David was a toddler, Gonzalez claimed: ‘His grandmother dumped a pot of boiling water on him. A piece of his clothing melted into his flesh and scarred him for life.’

Gonzalez also claimed that DePape was bullied in school and didn’t have any friends. Because of that, he had a difficult time in his early years.

Throughout his life he has found difficulty making friends, the son added. ‘He is a loner.’

Gonzalez said that when he first heard that his father had been arrested for the attack on Pelosi, he was in shock. ‘That’s not the type of person he is.

‘I’m surprised about the whole thing. There is still a lot of info that hasn’t been given to the public. I have no clue what happened or how it happened. There are more questions than answers right now. Do we even know what really happened?’

Gonzalez and his brother live in a run-down home in Berkeley, California, with their older sister, Inti, DePape’s stepdaughter. All three use the last name of Gonzalez. Their mother Oxane ‘Gypsy’ Taub gave all her children the ‘Gonzalez’ last name as a tribute to a Mexican family that saved her life several years ago.

Gonzalez said that when they were younger, his father took them to the park or beach and he has fond memories of his upbringing with DePape. ‘He tried to be the best father he could be. He tried his best to make us happy.’

He said he’d tried to set up a jailhouse visit with his father, but so far had not been successful.

He also debunked the idea that the attack was politically motivated. ‘My father had a lot of political views and told me about a lot of different things, but he didn’t subscribe to either political party, Democrat or Republican.’

DePape said the two parties ‘are just covers and colors’ his son said.

‘What matters are the policies of each individual person. Each individual person is unique, and it isn’t about right or left. That’s just a distraction.’

Gonzalez said he believed his father was a member of the Green Party.

‘My father had progressive views. He believed in human rights, equality, and justice. He was against the war, he was a peace activist, hardly a right-wing conservative, as he has been branded.’

Gonzalez said it’s been several years since he’s seen DePape. ‘One day my father got into a fight with my mother, and she kicked him out and then we lost contact with him.’