Ethan Couch was speeding a truck heavily under the influence (three times over the legal limit). He killed four people, including a mother and daughter and a youth pastor. Being a rich kid, his parents got their junior the best defense lawyers money can buy. His defense team argued that the murdering punk is not to blame, but *gasp* his parents.
You see, it’s all his parents’ fault! According to hired psychologist G. Dick Miller, Couch is a product of "affluenza", Yeah, that’s right, it seems that “growing up without any consequences for bad behavior, and living under the misconception that having money” gives rich kids like Ethan the feeling that they are above the law and that their affluent patents can fix any problem.
Texas District Court Judge Jean Boyd obviously agrees with the affluenza defense, which created a media storm.
As Ivy Reyes of Springfield quite correctly pointed out “I think he should be doing time just like anybody else would if they were from a lower class. They would be doing time. I don't think it's fair to say, “Oh, he had money. Let's give him a break and probation. What about the families who are suffering?”
The victims' families are (of course) devastated by Judge Jean Boyd’s inexplicable decision. Let’s not forget, thanks to delinquent Ethan Couch, one man lost his wife and daughter, which takes him (courtesy of Judge Jean Boyd) back to the beginning of his grieving process.
Boyd ordered that Couch could not have contact with his parents while receiving long-term treatment at an alcohol rehab center in cushy Newport Beach, CA which would cost his parents half a million dollars.
It makes one wonder – Does Ethan Couch even feel remorse? Or is he too busy getting drunk (again)?
