Money can’t buy you love, but apparently it can allow you to
get away with intoxicated manslaughter. Spoiled Texas teen, Ethan Couch’s blood
alcohol levels were three times the legal limit when he crashed his car going
70 miles per hour. Due to Couch’s pure idiocy, four people were killed, leaving
an additional nine injured.
Instead of receiving the full consequences from the law,
which in Texas ranges from five to 15 years in prison, Couch will be serving a
‘lengthy stay’ at a California drug treatment facility that bills out at
$1,200-a-day. This unbearable sentence at the drug treatment facility offers
equine sports, yoga and massages.
Prosecutors did mention that prisons do have their own drug
and alcohol treatment programs, but Judge Jean Boyd noted that the facility in
California would be a better fit.
How is this possible? The teen’s defense team argued he was
a victim of “affluenza.” Affluenza is the failure of parents to set boundaries,
also know as, spoiled brat syndrome. Couch’s family is now facing $20 million
worth of civil lawsuits resulting from the crash.
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