{"id":12158,"date":"2015-12-30T01:01:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T01:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12158"},"modified":"2015-12-30T02:41:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T02:41:26","slug":"throw-book-at-affluenza-teen-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12158","title":{"rendered":"Throw book at ‘Affluenza Teen’ mom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n

\"affluenza\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Ethan Couch is in custody … again.<\/p>\n

So\u00a0is his\u00a0mother.<\/p>\n

The so-called “Affluenza Teen” has been found in Mexico, where authorities are preparing to send him back to Texas.<\/p>\n

Why the big deal? This is the nimrod who piled into a pickup in 2013 — when he was 16 years of age — and while roaring drunk plowed his vehicle into another vehicle, killing four people.<\/p>\n

The kid got 10 years probation largely on the testimony of a shrink who blamed his ghastly behavior on the upbringing he received from his wealthy Fort Worth parents.<\/p>\n

Thus, the term “affluenza” was born.<\/p>\n

Then the kid — who’s now 18 — was seen taking part in a drinking game in violation of his probation; and after that, the kid failed to report to his probation officer. Can’t do that, young man.<\/p>\n

So, Mom and Ethan went on the lam, ending up on the Mexican Riviera before the cops found them.<\/p>\n

Texas law limits the amount of time Ethan can serve in jail; he faces a maximum of 120 days in the slammer.<\/p>\n

Mom, though, ought to spend some serious time in The Joint.<\/p>\n

What’s so ironic about all of this is that the “affluenza defense”<\/a> has taken an odd turn toward validity.<\/p>\n

Ethan Couch never should have been too drunk to drive. Did his parents enable his terrible behavior?<\/p>\n

It seems that Mommy Couch’s accompanying her little pride and joy to another nation suggests that she truly has enabled Ethan’s criminal activity.<\/p>\n

She deserves some hard time if a Texas court convicts her of aiding in her son’s flight from the law.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n\n

Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ethan Couch is in custody … again. So\u00a0is his\u00a0mother. The so-called “Affluenza Teen” has been found in Mexico, where authorities are preparing to send him back to Texas. Why the big deal? This is the nimrod who piled into a pickup in 2013 — when he was 16 years of age — and while roaring … Continue reading Throw book at ‘Affluenza Teen’ mom<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[162,1631,5820,3011,5819],"class_list":["post-12158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-state-news","tag-affluenza","tag-ethan-couch","tag-mexican-riviera","tag-mexico","tag-texas-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12167,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158\/revisions\/12167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}