You know affluenza, the mythical disease the judge claimed this piece of shit had. Basically too rich to have common sense… because apparently thats a thing.
Affluenza teen Ethan Couch was released from jail Monday morning, just 720 days after being locked away for the drunken-driving killing of four.
The 20-year-old who drew international attention after a psychologist testified on his behalf and said he suffered from something called affluenza was released just after 8.30am local time from a jail in Tarrant County, Texas.
He has spent his first few minutes out of jail in a probation office and has yet to step into the sunshine for the first time in nearly two years.
The president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Colleen Sheehey-Church, called his release a ‘grave injustice. She said the organization will be closely following his release amid outrage from its members, according to CBS DFW.
On June 15, 2013 Couch was behind the wheel of his father’s red For F-350 pick-up, speeding 70mph down the road from his home in Burleson, Texas, where he had hosted a drunken teenage party.
Earlier in the day he and two friends had stolen three cases of Miller Light from a local Walmart.
As the party got into its swing, one of the guests found she needed a tampon and everyone piled into the truck to go to a nearby convenience store.
The then 16-year-old then smashed into an SUV that had stopped by the side of the road after its tire blew, killing its driver Breanna Mitchell, 24. The crash also killed three people had to come to her aid, including Brian Jennings, who was on the way home from his son’s graduation, and mother-and-daughter neighbors Holliie and Shelby Boyles.
Sergio Molina, one of Couch’s passengers, was paralyzed and can now only communicate by blinking.
A blood test taken three hours after the crash showed COuch was
Because of his affluenza, Couch was apparently left unable to anticipate the consequences of his actions.
Affluenza impacts individuals whose wealthy parents failed to set boundaries throughout his childhood, and a judge agreed this left him not responsible for the drunken driving murders.
Though Couch killed four and…