'Affluenza' Texan set for first appearance in adult court
The alleged affluenza Texan is due to accomplish his aboriginal actualization in developed cloister on Wednesday to actuate his book for actionable a adolescent acquittal accord imposed afterwards he dead four while active bashed alfresco Fort Worth.Ethan Couch, 19, has been in a Tarrant Canton bastille back January. He could face a book of about four months in bastille for actionable probation, canton law administration authorities accept said.
At his balloon in adolescent cloister in 2013 if he was 16, a analyst testifying on his account said Couch was so baby by his affluent parents that he could not acquaint appropriate from wrong. The analyst declared the adversity as "affluenza," a appellation that bound became a media buzzword.
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Couch was taken into aegis in Texas afterwards he fled to Mexico in December with his mother, allegedly to abstain arrest for actionable the drink- and drug-free acquittal accord afterwards video on amusing media appeared to appearance him at a affair area booze was getting consumed.
Taxpayers paid added than $150,000 of the $200,000 bill for the yearlong rehabilitation imposed as allotment of the book because his parents could not allow to pay for all of the treatment, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram said, citation cloister documents.
Couch, who was 16 if he dead four humans with his auto truck, will arise afore Judge Wayne Salvant, who aswell is authoritative over the case of his mother, Tonya Couch.
She is answerable with allowance her son abscond to Mexico. She was appear on bond but is beneath home bonds apprehension trial.
If convicted, she faces up to 10 years in prison.
(Writing by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)
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