Teen runs over and kills four while drunk, beats case because he's too rich

[Fruitvale_Mac]

The woman on the phone to 911 was clearly distressed. It's dark, she said. There's been a terrible car crash. There are bodies in the street, bodies by the side of the road.

"There's four or five," she cried. "There's another child in the ditch! They're gone!"

More information has come to light in the gruesome "affluenza" case of 16-year-old Ethan Couch, who was sentenced to 10 years of probation after killing four people and seriously injuring others when he crashed his truck while driving drunk outside Fort Worth, Texas.

Emergency call tapes and other evidence was released Friday, two days after Judge Jean Boyd sentenced the teen, whose attorneys claimed he was so spoiled by his rich parents he had no concept of right or wrong. The absence of any jail time in Boyd's sentence has sparked public outrage.

"I'm Ethan Couch, I'll get you out of this," the inebriated teen told one of his passengers at the scene, according to trial notes belonging to the attorney for Eric Boyles, who lost his wife and daughter in the terrible crash.

Couch, driving a Ford F-350 truck belonging to his family's business, mowed down four people who were standing by the side of the road in June. Sergio Molina, 16, was thrown from the back of the pickup and is now paralyzed and unable to speak.

His family has sued the Couches for at least $20 million, money they say they need to cover the boy's medical expenses.

His brother, Alex Lemus, told the Dallas Morning News that his family was livid. “That kid killed four people and crippled my little brother and doesn’t even have to serve one year? If he were poor like us, he would’ve gotten 10 years, I bet.”

Lemus also told CNN that medical bills have already surpassed $1 million. As for Ethan Couch's defense claim of "affluenza," Lemus said he was "outrageously angry. I can't say anything."

But Couch attorney Reagan Wynn was not at a loss for words.

If the point of the juvenile system is to rehabilitate these kids and make them productive members of society, then the judge did absolutely the right thing," Wynn said.

New details, 911 calls come to light in Texas 'affluenza' case of teen Ethan Couch* - NY Daily News

The four he killed:

The kid he paralyzed that is now unable to speak:

 

[Fruitvale_Mac]

More info on this:

To the families of the victims, Ethan Couch was a killer on the road, a drunken teenage driver who caused a crash that left four people dead.

To the defense, the youth is himself a victim -- of "affluenza," according to one psychologist -- the product of wealthy, privileged parents who never set limits for the boy.

To a judge, who sentenced Couch to 10 years' probation but no jail time, he's a defendant in need of treatment.

The decision disappointed prosecutors and stunned victims' family members, who say they feel that Couch got off too easy. Prosecutors had asked for the maximum of 20 years behind bars.
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DUI crash kills 4, teen gets probation

"Let's face it. ... There needs to be some justice here," Eric Boyles, who lost his wife and daughter, told CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" on Wednesday night.

"For 25 weeks, I've been going through a healing process. And so when the verdict came out, I mean, my immediate reaction is -- I'm back to week 1. We have accomplished nothing here. My healing process is out the window," he said.

Lawyers for Couch, 16, had argued that the teen's parents should share part of the blame for the crash because they never set limits for the boy and gave him everything he wanted.

Texas teen Ethan Couch gets 10 years' probation for deadly DWI crash - CNN.com

 

[Rasan]

His parents must have dialed in a favor with the DA. and in the state of texas too? kid shoulda been tried as an adult for manslaughter.
RIP to the 4 people. and very sad about the kid who is paralyzed.

 

[Rossibreath]

I would kill myself if I was responsible for something like that. Makes me glad I got a DUI and retired from driving drunk.

 

[REACHTMO]

kid better hire some bodyguards. theres gonna be some people looking to settle the score out there

 

[fillyacup]

its like....fuck everything this kid and his family stand for, because its obviously nothing.

 

[L.D.S.]

This is outrageous. I can't imagine having to deal with the murderer of my family member getting off of a charge so easily.

 

[Gemini]

Them people's family members need to seriously take the law into my own hands.

 

[ThaG]

It gets worse.

Watch these:

 

[REACHTMO]

10 years probation is some bullshit. you dont have to try someone as an adult to give them 20 years worth of community service.

People get jail time plus 3-10 years of probation for a dui for rolling through a stop sign with no collision, no deaths, no speeding, no reckless driving involved, and this kid paralyzes his buddy and kills 4 people by driving onto a sidewalk and mowing them down on some gta shit and only gets probation?

for real?

 

[iaoish]

"This boy has never been punished for anything in his life ever, now that he drove drunk, killed four people and paralysed one kid for life. We cannot simply start punishing the kid now. That would be crazy. Instead lets send him to a spa."

 

[ThaG]

BTW, ain't nobody tryna tell me the US is a democracy after that.

This is worse than the way the kids of party officials got away with such things during communism - they at least simply looked for ways to cover up the fact that whatever they did has happened and it was never institutionalized. And some actually didn't get away - the old party officials from the war generation generally had high sense of moral duty and actually made sure their spolied kids got punished hard for whatever infraction they committed, precisely because they were their kids.

This is was sanctioned by a judge and has a lot more to do with the way at certain points in Europe's history there were two official sets of laws for the aristocracy and everyone else...

 

[jon jon]

This is ridiculous. We should come out with a mental illness medical word for being to fucking broke. Im thinking of the word pauperism, but tweeked into pauperisimia. So that way if you ever rob someones ass at gun point, just tell the court your family has been broke as fuck for a long ass time and now suffer from pauperisimia.

 

[MysticOracle]

damn 10 years probation....caught himself a slap on the wrist..he'll catch his

 

[gimmefreemusic]

If this kid has never been punished then I'm pretty sure he'll violate his conditions.

My buddy fucked up with a dd crash and someone died, he was driving too fast like a dumb ass, his shit flipped and he was lucky enough to live. Set an example for my ass to stop with that stupid shit.

He faced 9, caught 5, served 3 and a half, 2 years in a halfway, on conditions for a next 4 years and license revoked for a decade.

But it wasnt this rich kid scenario, he grew up with his pops drinking and driving everyday, so shit was instilled into him more than anything. At least this has humbled him up and he done drinking for good but some fucked up shit he always gotta live with.

The sentencing my friend got isn't shocking in Canada because all sentencing is lenient here. The fact that a kid got away with killing 4 and paralyzing 1 in TEXAS is what is shocking to me.

 

[Fucky McFuckerson]

BTW, ain't nobody tryna tell me the US is a democracy after that.

This is worse than the way the kids of party officials got away with such things during communism - they at least simply looked for ways to cover up the fact that whatever they did has happened and it was never institutionalized. And some actually didn't get away - the old party officials from the war generation generally had high sense of moral duty and actually made sure their spolied kids got punished hard for whatever infraction they committed, precisely because they were their kids.

This is was sanctioned by a judge and has a lot more to do with the way at certain points in Europe's history there were two official sets of laws for the aristocracy and everyone else...

The US is not a democracy...anyone with a brain knows that.

 

[Rasan]

If this kid has never been punished then I'm pretty sure he'll violate his conditions.

My buddy fucked up with a dd crash and someone died, he was driving too fast like a dumb ass, his shit flipped and he was lucky enough to live. Set an example for my ass to stop with that stupid shit.

He faced 9, caught 5, served 3 and a half, 2 years in a halfway, on conditions for a next 4 years and license revoked for a decade.

But it wasnt this rich kid scenario, he grew up with his pops drinking and driving everyday, so shit was instilled into him more than anything. At least this has humbled him up and he done drinking for good but some fucked up shit he always gotta live with.

The sentencing my friend got isn't shocking in Canada because all sentencing is lenient here. The fact that a kid got away with killing 4 and paralyzing 1 in TEXAS is what is shocking to me.

thats what tripped me out is dude is from texas.
hope his parents are ready for 4 more civil suits. money cant replace a life tho.
if the lil bastard had any shred of remorse for what he did he woulda plead guilty.

 

[S.L.A.B]

Damn I'm speechless. Someone better torture and murder this fuck.

 

[short]

he should be killed the same way he killed the 4 people. have somebody like that drunk trevor from gta get drunk as fuck and run this rich kid over like 5 times. the same judge gave a 14 tear old black kid 10 years in prison. the kids alleged offense was killing some dude with one punch

 

[DubbC415]

This is ridiculous. We should come out with a mental illness medical word for being to fucking broke. Im thinking of the word pauperism, but tweeked into pauperisimia. So that way if you ever rob someones ass at gun point, just tell the court your family has been broke as fuck for a long ass time and now suffer from pauperisimia.

I was actually gonna post some thing about this. How come the argument doesn't go the other way? That people in poverty were so used to being treated and living like shit that they were forced to commit shitty crimes???



FUCK THIS JUDGE and FUCK anyone who supports this bullshit idea of "affluenza." I cant believe this actually exists and happened. Fuck our society.