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‘Affluenza’ teen, whose drunk driving killed 4, in trouble after video posted to Twitter
Two years ago, Ethan Couch seemed like the luckiest teen in the world. On June 15, 2013, the then-16-year-old drunkenly climbed behind the wheel of his pickup truck and went for a nighttime drive near Fort Worth. Crammed inside his pickup were five friends; two more sat in the back. With his blood-alcohol level three times the adult driving limit and with traces of Valium and marijuana in his system, Couch couldn’t stay on the road.
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Here is another one who should be put in the big house till he dies of old age.
I never understood this case and I'm no fan of the "tough love" of the sort which perpetuates the abuses of children, teens and young adults in the form of institutional trauma by organizations promoting a punitive bent in the rehabilitative milieu (eg. any episode of Scared Straight and most TC's). However, if the premise of affluenza were to be accepted, wouldn't it stand to reason that the remedy for such an affliction would be consequences?