Will Ethan and Tonya Couch Have 'Mommy and Me' Time In Prison?

Y’all remember Ethan Couch, the drunken poor little spoiled boy who murdered four innocent people in Texas — and maimed and paralyzed two of his friends in the process — but received no jail time, only probation, because the judge agreed with defense attorneys that Little Ethan was ‘too spoiled’ to know that murdering people by driving drunk was wrong.

I know. Texas. Anyway, you also no doubt also know that Little Ethan and his enabling mother, Tonya, who couldn’t be bothered to raise her own child to be a responsible member of society, fled the state of Texas together after a video surfaced of Ethan partying with his friends.

Well, Mommy and Clyde, er, Ethan and Tonya, were detained last week near the popular Mexican resort of Puerto Vallarta, and now Ethan Couch is expected to be turned over to the U.S. Marshals Service, and then to the authorities in Tarrant County, Texas, for allegedly violating probation by leaving the state, as well as missing a mandatory probation meeting and another potential violation stemming from that video showing him at that booze-fueled party.

District Attorney Sharen Wilson says it "certainly looks like [Couch]" in the video, but added that without further investigation, the video alone did not prove he violated his probation; but she does want to move Couch’s case to adult court to prevent another slap on the wrist.

If Ethan Couch stays in the juvenile system, his punishment for violating probation for murdering four people might be as light as four months in jail, but if the juvenile judge elects to move the case to the adult system, his 10-year probation sentence would restart, meaning, one more mistake and it’s serious jail time.

And, better still, is that Texas prosecutors say they will also charge Couch’s mother with helping her son flee, and will charge her with “hindering apprehension” which carries a sentence of one to 10 years in prison.

Yes, she might actually do more jail time than her son the murderer, unless Texas finally does the right thing and puts the two of them in adjoining cells for the next decade.

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Ethan Couch, After Killing Four People And Not Being Punished, Has Run Off With His Mommy, Tonya Couch

Back on June 15, 2013, a sixteen-year-old Ethan Couch and some of his friends stole beer from a local Wal-Mart; they drank it all and then, with Couch behind the wheel, began driving around.

That same night Breanna Mitchell was driving home and her car broke down. Brian Jennings, a youth pastor, was driving by and stopped to help, as Breanna was calling a friend, Shelby Boyles, and her mother, Hollie, to come get her.

A drunken Ethan Couch plowed into the four of them, killing them, all; several others suffered severe injuries, including two passengers thrown from the bed of Couch's truck. Two of Ethan Couch's friends were critically injured; one was paralyzed for life. And three hours ... three hours ... after the crash a Breathalyzer test showed that Ethan Couch’s blood alcohol level was 0.24, nearly three times the legal limit.

Ethan Couch went on trial for the killing of four people with his car — though not for injuring and paralyzing his friends — and the judge in the case, Judge Jean Boyd [left], whom I must believe was paid off in some way, listened to the defense argument that Ethan Couch suffered from “affluenza.”

Yes, he was too rich, too spoiled, too unsupervised, to know that drinking a case of beer and then driving a car was wrong, and so Judge Boyd sentenced him to ten years … probation.

He killed four people, and injured three others, and he got probation; oh, and he never once, before the trial, during the trial, or after the trial, apologized to the families of the people he killed. He simply went back home.

Now two years later, and after a video turns up on social media showing Ethan Couch at a party playing beer pong — part of the child’s sentence was that he not drink at all — Ethan Couch has vanished, violating his parole.

And rumor has it that his mother, Tonya Couch, the woman who couldn't be bothered to parent her own son so that he grew up knowing that drinking and driving was wrong, or that if you kill four people you might wanna express some remorse, helped Ethan Couch flee. And, if found, and I so hope to the universe he and that mother are found, now, finally, Ethan Couch may actually have to go to jail for ten years; not for killing four innocent people, but for running away, mind you.

A warrant has been issued for Couch, and his idiot mother, with now both the FBI and U.S. Marshals joining local authorities to hunt Ethan and his mommy down. A $5,000 reward was offered for information leading to the arrest of Couch.

But Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson is worried that Mommy and Son have left the country, since they have the means to do so, and a little bit of a head start. But Ethan Couch, even while on probation, loved his social media, and loved posting his picture online, so there is the hope that this little mother—boy will be caught and punished; and this time punished hard.

So, if anyone who reads this, anywhere in the world, happens to come across Ethan Couch, that little bastard, that murdering little prick, and Tonya Couch, that miserable excuse for a mother ... and that's the ugly duo up there at the top ... do the right thing: call the authorities and make Ethan pay for killing people, and make his mother pay for being a horrible excuse for a parent.

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