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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

'Affluenza' teen's mom is in trouble again

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2017

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The mother of so-called "Affluenza teen" Ethan Couch violated her bond by drinking beer and holding a gun, according to prosecutors. She has been awaiting trial on charges of helping her son escape to Mexico while on probation for killing 4 people in a drunken driving crash. In this episode, Nancy Grace talks to Atlanta defense lawyer Renee Rockwell, psychologist Caryn Stark and cohost Alan Duke about the latest in this case.

Transcript

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0:00.0

He got drunk, then jumped behind the wheel of his pickup truck and plowed down four people

0:09.5

in a drunken haze.

0:11.0

Ethan Couch was charged with four counts of intoxication manslaughter.

0:15.0

A psychologist and defense witness testified that the boy suffered from something called

0:19.7

affluenza, a lifestyle where wealth brought privilege and there were no consequences for

0:24.7

bad behavior.

0:26.3

This is Carm Stories with Nancy Grace.

0:29.2

The mother of so-called affluenza teen Ethan Couch, she's awaiting trial for allegedly

0:33.5

helping her son escape to Mexico.

0:36.3

Prosecutors have been pushing to have her bond revoked because they say she violated

0:40.7

the conditions of her release by drinking alcohol and handling a gun.

0:45.1

I think sometimes you use bad judgment.

0:47.2

It was a strong admonishment from Judge Wayne Salvin directly issued to Tanya Couch.

0:57.8

After four people, four innocent people, including a youth minister, a mom, her daughter,

1:07.8

and a fourth are killed on the side of the road.

1:12.5

A fifth person left paralyzed for life.

1:16.9

They can only move their eyes and see the world happening around them.

1:23.8

The perpetrator Ethan Couch, also known as affluenza teen, gets straight appropriation

1:31.5

and it is only when his mother takes him on a wild goose chase evading the law to hide

1:37.8

out in a Mexico 5 star hotel that he's finally revoked.

1:44.6

This after a video emerges of him playing beer pong at a drunken party, here's the kicker.

1:53.3

Tommy, who helps her son evade the law, is not in jail.

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