5 Things To Know About The ‘Affluenza’ Teen, Ethan Couch
At last! Ethan Couch may finally see the inside of a prison cell. The teen made national headlines after he failed to receive a jail sentence for driving drunk and killing four people after a judge bought his ‘affluenza’ defense that he was too rich and spoiled to realize right from wrong.
Justice may finally be served in the case of Ethan Couch, 18, the rich and privileged teen who at age 16 drove drunk and plowed into a crowd of people near his Burleson, Texas mansion. He left four people dead and nine others with serious injuries. A national outcry occurred when a Texas judge sentenced him as a juvenile to 10 year probation — with no jail time — because she fell in line with his defense counsel’s claim that because he was so spoiled growing up he never learned that there might be consequences for killing innocent people! Now he’s in custody for allegedly violating his probation.