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| Taxpayers pick up bulk of rehab bill for 'affluenza' Texan -newspaper |
Ethan Couch, who angry 19 this anniversary and was 16 at the time of the incident, will be in a Tarrant County developed cloister on Wednesday for a acceptable assurance of how abundant time abaft confined he have to absorb for actionable the acquittal deal.
Taxpayers paid added than $150,000 of the bill for his year-long rehabilitation because his parents were clumsy to pay for all of the treatment, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram said, citation cloister documents.
Attorneys for Couch were not anon accessible for comment.
At Couch's balloon in adolescent cloister in 2013, a analyst testified for the aegis that Couch was so baby by his affluent parents he could not acquaint appropriate from wrong. The analyst declared the adversity as "affluenza," a appellation that bound became a media buzzword.
Couch was bedevilled to 10 years' probation, during which he was to abide alcohol- and drug-free. The book sparked abuse from critics who ridiculed the affluenza aegis and said his family's abundance helped the boyhood break out of jail.
Couch and his mother, Tonya Couch, fled Texas in December, 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.
Ethan Couch has been in aegis aback he was brought aback from Mexico in January.
Couch will arise afore Adjudicator Wayne Salvant, the aforementioned adjudicator authoritative over Tonya Couch's case.
She is answerable with allowance her son abscond to Mexico. She was appear on bond but is beneath home bonds apprehension trial.
Tonya Couch faces up to 10 years in bastille if bedevilled of allowance her son flee.
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