Posted on 12/31/2015 6:17:15 AM PST by Wolfie
'Affluenza' teen's mother back in U.S.
Tonya Couch, the mother of "affluenza" teen Ethan Couch has returned to the United States. In video obtained by CNN, the mother can be seen in handcuffs with U.S. Marshals at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
Texas prosecutors have said Tonya Couch will be charged with hindering the apprehension of a juvenile, and if convicted, faces between two and 10 years in jail.
A Mexican immigration official with knowledge of the case said Ethan Couch's attorneys had filed a writ to seek protection and block his deportation. If the teen confirms his wish to go forward with that approach, the case would go to trial, and proceedings could take months, the official said.
"At this time we do not have a time frame. We do not know if the Mexicans have the highest priority on this case like we do here in America," Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Richard Hunter told reporters Wednesday. "It's on their time schedule. We've seen these things happen as quickly as two weeks to two months."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
"Ethan Couch's parents - who Texas Judge Jean Boyd conceded empowered the teen with such a strong sense of entitlement, he couldn't be held fully accountable for his drunken driving killings of four people - each have long, detailed legal records, though neither has spent a moment in prison"
There will be much hand wringing, speeches will be made, news conferences conducted, pictures flashed on the evening news....and in the end...she will walk away with a slap on the back of the hand.
And society will smile smugly and say" "See, we do punish our royalty."
And all will be well until the next stupid thing that comes along.
Smooth move, Exlax! I guess he figures he’ll get preferential treatment in a Mexican jail! I wonder how much they had to pay the Mexican authorities to pull that one keeping him out of this country, for a while.
When He finally gets back slap him with interstate flight to avoid prosecution, a federal felony. let him do 5 years federal.
CC
He should receive the same treatment from the Mexicans as Sgt. Tamooressi.
I can see why she is divorced.
Who do you blame when your kid is a brat?
Pampered and spoiled like a siamese cat
Blaming the kids is a lie and a shame
You know exactly who's to blame
The mother and the father
Fatal crash in 2004 drew different sentence from Tarrant judge
Really???
I can't.
But that's only because I can't see why she was married in the first place.
She has a certain look that says "stay away if you value happiness and your sanity."
Most people call that look-B!TC#
Give her the whole ten years.
They sent her to California, not Texas. Let’s see if she really ends up back in the Tarrant County jail.
What is an “affluenza?”
Oh boy, that is awful. Is that the vehicle involved in the fatal crash caused by Couch?
Apparently. Two of his Buds were in the back somewhere.
While "moral philosophy" has ceased to be a subject serious authors contemplate, the illogic conctained in this statement demonstrates that those wielding the power of government have become deranged. When we abandon the principle of cause and effect, we abandon all the empirical sciences, history, and the basis of the Common Law. We have literally lost our collective minds. And when we abandon the principal of personal responsibility for the consequences of our actions, not thoughts, but actions, we surrender the foundations of western morality.
It is sad that the undermining of critical thinking was intended to prepare us for the now collapsed and much maligned philosophy of Marxist-Leninism, and has prepared us instead for Dhimmitude.
I’m as anxious to see this horrible woman punished as her worthless spawn
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