Update on The Ethan Couch Case

By Lynn A. Granata

I just want to bring you up to date on the Ethan Couch case, his mother has blocked his extradition charges. Mother enabler she can do miracles. He is a very lucky kid, he gets away with stuff that the rest if us would never get away with. Nonetheless he is still going to serve a prison term of 120 days for killing 4 people while DUI.

• Ethan Couch
• On the Run
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• By Lynn A. Granata
• Ethan Couch, 18 was captured in a coastal Mexican vacation resort with his mother Tonya Couch. They had gone missing since Christmas Day. The reason for their crime spree is because Ethan was wanted on 4 counts of manslaughter charges in the drunken driving melee he caused with a group of pedestrians in his wealthy Texas hometown. Born into a family of means, the teen was dubbed a victim of "affluenza." Affluenza is a new social slang term used to describe people, particularly young upwardly mobile parents with children who are lacking in knowing right from wrong. The child does wrong but feels as though he or she isn't accountable for their actions, they are spoiled children because their parents are enablers.

Ethan Couch was arrested in Mexico and extradited back to the United States. He is also wanted on charges DUI for mowing down pedestrians with his car back from 2013. However, his over protective mother has been enabling Ethan to evade his crimes. She has been seen traveling with him, accompanying to his destination to escape justice.