A mother who fled to Mexico with her killer son in America’s so-called affluenza case was facing up to ten years in prison last night after arriving back in the US.
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The divorce provides a revealing backdrop for the latest chapter in Ethan Couch’s troubled life: He and his mother were arrested Monday after fleeing to Mexico while he was on probation and using one of their phones to order a pizza delivered to a condo in the resort city of Puerto Vallarta.
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In Texas, Tarrant County sheriff Dee Anderson said the Couches had prepared to be gone a while, even dyeing the teenager’s blond hair black. She is charged with a third-degree felony punishable by two to 10 years in prison.
A court in Mexico granted fugitive 18-year-old Ethan Couch a stay against his deportation following his illegal entry into the country, delaying his return by weeks or months, a Mexican migration official said on Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity. Texas officials have said it will depend on the timetable established by Mexican authorities.
Couch was declared officially missing December 10 when he did not appear at a mandatory meeting with his probation officer.
During the sentencing phase of his trial, a defense expert argued that Couch’s wealthy parents had coddled him into a sense of irresponsibility – a condition the expert termed “affluenza”.
An additional charge awaiting Tonya Couch, according to the New York Post is the fact that she was found with a gun in a drawer of their first stop, a swanky resort, just before they arrested her in Mexico. If prosecutors have their way, her son Ethan will face heightened consequences. If he ends up on adult probation and violates that, he could land in jail for up to 40 years, Wilson said.
The court sentenced him to mental health treatment and a decade of probation, a ruling seen as too lenient by many Americans.
Texas teenager Ethan Couch, who used an “affluenza” defense over a fatal drunken-driving accident, is not likely to return to the US soon.
“They have done everything that they can so far to avoid being accountable, or avoid being brought to justice”, he said. Ethan Couch got the nickname during his trial.
According to ABC News, Ethan Couch’s father issued a statement through his lawyer saying he’s cooperating with authorities. She was wearing blue street clothes and looked away from cameras as she walked, flanked by two marshals. A lawyer for Tonya Couch did not respond to a request to comment.
In the auto crash, Couch, then 16, was speeding and had a blood-alcohol level almost three times the legal limit when he lost control of his pickup truck and struck a stranded motorist and three people who had stopped to help.
Ethan Couch was transported late Wednesday from a detention center in Guadalajara to one in Mexico City, an official with Mexico’s National Immigration Institute told the Associated Press.
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Ethan Couch has been granted a three-day stay in his deportation case, which was expected to go before a judge who could potentially take longer to make a decision, according to a government official.
