Wow hearing that father not able to recognize his own daughter is truly heartbreaking. It's so tragic and what's worse is that boy faced no consequences
My sister in law was just killed in july by a tree that fell on her trailer..it crushed her it she was completely unrecognizable it was horrifying and will scar us forever
I’ll never get over how disgusting this judge was about this case. Imagine letting a dude walk away from driving under the influence and taking lives from other people just because he’s rich. But they’ll lock you up for getting a speeding ticket or having marijuana on you. That makes so much sense. I despise the court system nowadays.
Was this his first run-in with the law? Most states have a deferred adjudication program where you don’t have to go to prison on your first offense. Didn’t this kid get like 10 years of probation? That stuff isn’t a walk in the park either.
You don't even know the half of it. After this he was arrested in Mexico with his mother after failing to check in with his probation officer and served 2 years. Then he was arrested again on a probation violation for smoking weed and was let out after 1 day. It's a fucking diacrace.
We as Americans also call 16 a child/minor when the vast majority of Americans are cool with or do not care about a 16 year old legally driving a car "when they can kill someone" or when the commit premeditated murder and being treated like an adult. When it comes to sex they get treated like a child/minor even when they agree to it which is hypocritical even though there is a context they can be legally married at both 16 and 17. You want to talk like the judge is corrupt but the laws that defend 16 is a child/minor/baby also defend the judge and 16 year old too.
Yeah he then fled the country after he was seen playing beer pong with friends then spent 2 years in jail and is now released just in time for his 21st birthday I’m sure he will celebrate with alcohol while 4 other people don’t even get to breathe
Oh my bad, guess if he only killed 4 he should walk. What the fuck is a derp? I think you mean twerp. Like a punk ass kid. I'm sure you see that in the mirror every day.💀
Connor Townsend Townsend- Then you are just ignorant, anyone that’s not of social stranding or white would most likely get life for the deaths of 4 people. Go look at other cases that involves poor, or people of color and that’s including every race that’s brought down by society aka racist white people or racist people in general.
Connor Townsend Townsend/ Just because YOU don’t experience what minority’s experience doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen because it does happen and us minority’s can see that clear as days.
Always the drunk drives never die it’s always the innocent that pass away . Him not getting sentenced was a huge punch in the face for the families of the people that passed , they got no justice at all so sad I would be so angry
As a 11 year old child who survived a terrifying car crash with 2 cars involved, this sickens me that a teen who killed *4* people and didn't get any jail time is honestly disappointing.
I hate it when reporters use the phrase "in the wrong place at the wrong time." His victims were where they were supposed to be, minding their own business. HE was the one who was out doing what he had no business doing, NOT them.
@@youtubehatesfreespeech2245 I've worked in places where "white people" are browsing Amazon and Reddit while doing their job using company hours. So don't you date tell me that. Ever race has people who are very diligent in their work
roguegirl29 The phrase “in the wrong place in the wrong time” isn’t usually used to say someone was somewhere they weren’t supposed to be. I don’t think anyone is trying to blame the victims.
Drunk driving? One strike, you're out. License revoked for life. Kill people while driving? Manslaughter in the very least. Drunkenness is not an exonerating circumstance, it's a condemning one!
The way you are saying it, "drunk driving? one strike, you're out. License revoked for life" and then "Kill people while driving? Manslaughter in the very least", it sounds good in spirit, especially after watching this video, but it's really just not realistic in any way or indictive or how we do law in the US. Don't take that as me wanting to let people get away with driving drunk or anything related, I'm just pointing this out because it doesn't seem like you considered any possible scenario or repercussions related to what you would hope for.
"He suffers from Affluenza, he is rich and his parents wongly told him that money can buy him out of every problem. That's why he should pay 500k and not serve jail time" Soooo.... it wasn't wrong?
iknowyouarebutwhatami are YOU dumb? Smuggling in foreign things from other countries is a FELONY. Don’t believe it? Try google lmfao Smuggling in and of itself, is a felony offense. Just like piracy. #themoreyouknow 💯
@@PixieLove5 Your name is why I'm a bookworm! My mom bought me the book and I refused because I thought it was churchy since she was hardcore Catholic and I was a goth 90's Marilyn Manson teen lol. Finished it in 2 days, bought every sequel to it, and started reading 24/7. I'd be grounded from books instead of friends. Now as a teacher, I frequently assign it to my students who hate reading. Even my son asked if there's a part 2 or "are you gonna leave me hanging?"
If he was really so pampered that he didn't know right from wrong, then that was all the more reason for him to be put in jail. Let the prison teach him what his parents failed to.
That was still an underage boy. Other countries won't give underaged a jail sentence. Regardless of his wealth or his attourney and not because. There is no affluenza in Germany. No jailtime for kids.
I can’t even imagine the horror and devastation this kid caused. When this father told his kids to pray , I lost it. God will be there to help them through this nightmare. God please protect these families and comfort them.
@Heywood Jablowme that's cardboard cutout version of what a white persons life is like. The victims were white yet they received no justice from a judicial system that favors white people? ?? Its money and status my friend, race isnt the answer to everything
I just watched a video of a woman accidentally killing three people in a drunk driving accident she showed true remorse and was truly regretful and she got 51 years🤦🏾♀️
@@woahitscoby9122 and the man above was implying that he was lacking a brain in general. alluding to the fact that a rat with a tiny brain wouldn't have done this.
the judge is not a god he has to follow the laws and some real good lawyers made the judge do what he did. this is a minor remember. You know like the poor kid that gets pushed in to a gang, and shoots some one and wants a break.
@@doctormcgoveran2194 The fact you think a good lawyer can save someone from punishment of a crime as heinous as this that they clearly committed is abysmal. A good lawyer may help reduce time, but less than a year sentence? I'm sorry, but not even the BEST LAWYER IN THE WORLD should be able to convince a quadruple murder + 14 other injured from DUI to bring a sentence to less than a year. People typically serve at least a few years for a SINGLE drunk driving murder, much less multiple. In this case, I wouldn't doubt if the judge was paid off and it had nothing to do with a good lawyer. This judge should be debarred and removed.
My car was hit by a drunk driver and totaled. Some teenager in a big truck just like this who fled the scene and was arrested after leaving his license plate imbedded in my bumper. My thoughts after walking out of work to see my car folded in half was “thank god i wasn’t in the car I would be dead.” But the next day, my friend drove me to work and on the highway, someone hit us and pushed us into the barrier, and we had to go in the ambulance to the hospital. Life is crazy but I could have died two times within 18 hours so you have to be thankful. I have no sympathy for anyone who drives intoxicated and puts other people’s lives in danger.
This judge is a plain fool. He should be JAILED too. That stupid kid deserved a lifetime in jail. The parents are irresponsible like I have never seen before. Such a lovely world these days.
Judge can't do much about it, he has to go by the laws and they are very well developed in this area. It is not a judge makes will call system.If the judge wanted to give him a stiff penalty it may get flipped on appeal.
@@doctormcgoveran2194 are you serious? Dude should have gotten 4 counts of vehicular manslaughter, endangering how many lives?, reckless op, DUI. The judge 100% was paid for the deal or the Couchs lawyer knew some shit about the Judge or was owed one by the judge. That's how the judicial system really works.
far exponent how does it not make sense. If someone kills someone. That’s someone’s life. A whole fucking life. I think they deserve to die if they want to take and end someone’s life.
The most blatant sign of bad parenting in America is giving your kid a brand new car but not being bothered to teach them to drive. So many teens driving shiny Jeeps and F-150s with no impulse control at all
@Slit Wrist Misfit people aren't stupid, they know that alcohol will impair their senses and can cause them to have an accident, if they still drive knowing that they may kill someone, they should respond for their actions.
@Slit Wrist Misfit Slit Wrist Misfit well we both agree that his sentence was a joke, he will most likely do it again. I thought you were defending the guy by saying that he committed manslaughter. I see your point and I agree he didn't have the intention of killing the people, but I bet he wasn't remorseful when he realized what he did .
Rich kid gets away with murder because apparently he didn't learn right from wrong from his parents.... if that was his defense, why are so many people in jail... oh thats right, because they can't afford an army of lawyers and probably paying off a few people too.
I was reading into this story more and found out that the mom was actually having sex with her son whose a murderer. And the dad just allowed it. They are the worst kind of ppl.
I am with you on that.this proves one of my theory's to stay alive. If there is a traffic accident get the hell away from the road.those first four people did not have to stand there right by the road.I am blaming them they are dead and it is for god to decide now. GET AWAY FROM THE ROAD IF THERE IS A PROBLEM. ACCIDENT ETC. Get out of the road. away from the ditch.
@@Ambient-Dreamscape1 I volunteered at a road side safety facility,I learn a lesson from every tragedy, GET THE HELL AWAY FROM THE ROAD. EVERYBODY HAD A PART, SAFETY IS JOB ONE. Believe it or not there was plenty of stupid to go around,still is plenty. DON'T RIDE WITH DRUNKS.I did not write the laws I only read them.There are two sides to every case. The kids side says he was only in one bad wreck, the prosecutors side says four people dead.I can't bring back the dead, but this can save the next one..STAY AWAY FROM THE ROAD.
People need to stand up to0 the courrption. Everyone from this district need to press charges on the judge for failing his oath of service. Demand a change. We the people can fix this
@@get_it8473 r just keep em in your basement and feed him catfood and make him shit and piss where he stands and maybe shoot him with a bb gun every once and a while...
@Axel Smith everyone should get a public defender hows about that and tax the rich more to pay for them because there the ones fucking up our court system
@Axel Smith that is the proof of wealth inequality. The family was wealthy enough to buy a defense team that could spin this into no jail time for their son.
@Axel Smith okay that comment is retarded bud. " they arent getting away cuz they are rich they are gettign away because they can afford better lawyers.... Cuz they are rich. Think about how dumb you just sounded buddy
@@NearPanther92 No it’s the system that creates guidelines for crimes that all must follow. That’s why a kid who sold edibles got life and this guy can kill multiple people and not spend a day in jail.
It's not the US justice system. It's the judge. I smell a bribe. Hopefully evidence comes to light of what truly happened and he gets retried and sentenced to life along with the judge. Unfortunately there is no such thing as a perfect criminal justice system.
Banning alcohol will not stop drunk driving just like taking away guns won't stop criminals from using them to kill others. In this case Ethan should have been given at least 20 years in prison for killing those 4 people.
If he'd killed my loved one I would find him and he'd of wished he'd been sentenced. When justice is denied because the system is corrupt, you've got to step up and do it yourself, the elites will soon get the message.
@@subzerofromny735 the literal definition of affluenza: a psychological malaise supposedly affecting wealthy young people, symptoms of which include a lack of motivation, feelings of guilt, and a sense of isolation. You do realize there are wealthy people who aren't white right? Like I'm white and broke as shit and don't get shit from anyone. I've met spoiled brats of all races in high school. Affluenza is rich people being assholes. Also, its not hard to google, you should try it next time before saying something is what it's not. Mkay?
@@subzerofromny735 dude you are starting with the wrong person because my thing is that kid should be sitting behind bars but isnt because his parents bought out the system. Go use the wonderful internet that you use to spread your false hate to look up spoiled rich brats and go and see how diverse they are. A girl I went to school with was a minority but daddy was a cop and she got put of multiple underages and DUI's just off her fathers prowess. Also, you are racist if you can call something a "white persons disease" when thats not what it means at all. But way to shape it to fit your messed up agenda. This conversation is over, I don't waste my time on martyrs.
Vehicular manslaughter, they can't charge him with murder because there was no "intent". In other words, he wasn't trying to kill anybody, he was just "negligent" or, being stupid, which resulted in 4 fatalities.
I recently had my own dui incident i wrecked my own car severely injuring myself and no one else by the luck of God i didn't be hurt any bystanders but im still in the er trying to recover thank the Lord
@@-_--_--- why must you be so angry? If you believe the word snowflake is an insult you're incorrect. 1 might be thin and melt quickly but many "snowflakes" can cause an avalanche. So I'll be a snowflake any day 😉
@@marieasmr9285 You obviously thought snowflake was an insult because you thought I was angry when I used that word and started ranting off about the word "snowflake" you make no sense snowflake 🥴 You were clearly the angry one here to begin since you said "tHiS sToRy aNgErS mE sO mUcH"
@@marieasmr9285 "that comment was meant to cause anger but it didn't" yet me the person who typed the comment said it wasn't. You make no sense I already said what I said that me calling you a snowflake obviously bothered you since you proceeded ranting about it. You're not fooling anybody bud I didn't meant it as an insult but you did and I really don't care if you took it like that. I wanted to say something so therefore I said it 🤷🏻♂️
This should be shown to many high school students about drinking and driving ! I hope that kid that caused this is locked up in a cell for 23 hours a day and the parents allowed there son to drink and drive is also behind bars
This kid's parents is being sued into oblivion by at least 5 different cases. I hope all of it succeeds and this family ends up rummaging in the scraps for the rest of their pathetic lives.
honest to god? I think that he is to blame but so are all the people who he was drinking with that decided they wanted to go to the store and decided to get into that truck with him knowing that they were all drunk. He deserves massive amounts of punishment but so do the people that joined in with him.
Disgusting how this spoiled brat literally got away with murder. The "justice" system is beyond broken. I'm sure that judge would've come to a different verdict if it happened to their loved ones. SHAME.
It's so important to have a designated driver. Once you've drunk enough to be impaired, you're no longer capable of understanding that you're impaired.
@@youtubehatesfreespeech2245 bullshit. I maybe white, but I've gone to many places... I've seen many different races of people working just as hard as the others. But, elitist snobs are the social minority... only 1%of this country... THEY NEVER DO SHIT. But had Couch done th is in my home state, he would get no less than life in prison.
omg the poor father :( They honestly need much harsher sentences for DUIs. So many people do it and don't take it seriously because the punishment is so negligible
@@chemo6685 well there's a limit I allow, I don't mean to get absolute wrecked like low tolerance people do and go out,drive, end up getting drug tested .... I'm more accepting to the idea that someone shouldn't use high nor medium amounts generally speaking if your a medical user and you need to drive, take a bit until the pains away and you're not intoxicated. I should've added more context as here in the UK medical users who drive and only have took small amounts a day or something along those lines are getting their licenses revoked... that I don't agree with there need to be a reasonable limit just like alcohol.
This needs to be shown to all the mothers on social media who brag about never telling their child no!!! “I gave birth to them so why say no to them, they didn’t ask to be born”. And that is why in 20 years your looking at your child behind bars with no being a daily word!!! In my family we have a saying “raise your kids or society will”.
iLostMyXbox21 your right, but this is blatant bias. We both know a rich black teen who did this exact crime will be tried as an adult and be put away for life. Also, while not everything is a race issue being true, a good chunk of it is. You just gotta step back and look at america again. Take the legal system for example and start looking up, war on drugs, crack epidemic, felony list, incarceration rates since 1971 by race proportions. On top of this, look up political disenfrachisement and see how easy it is to feel like black man in the jim crow era
@@mftripz8445 he honestly deserves life in jail. I still don't think its a race thing. But you're right, if it was a black teen (or another person in general) they'd be getting life. But I do agree with you that the legal system is fucked up. Ive believed that ever since I was a little kid when I found out that a hacker solved a rape case, and got more time in jail than the rapist. So honestly, our legal system is shit.
@ChromaDark so you are saying that if your kid killed 4 people, you would not care and you would just let them sit back and pretend nothing happened? love has nothing to do with it, she is saying that if her kid did that, then she would want her kid to have consequences for her actions. you can still love your child and have your child get punished for something they did
CORRUPTION!!!! The parents need to be in jail for screwing up their rotten kid. Hope the kid realizes someday, and lives in remorse and guilt for the rest of his life. I hope he has a long, long life .
I had a friend who, at 18, drove drunk, crashed and killed his best friend since childhood. Both of his parents were professors at a famous college, one had been awarded a pitzer prize. They were very wealthy. He was sentenced to California prisons like everyone else does. He did over 5 years (his sentence was like 10-12 something like that, doesn’t seem long to some but ca prisons are not a walk in the park). The victims family even went to court and begged the judge for leniency because they had been best friends, but he was treated like everyone else. He’s out now, prison SCREWED him up but the guilt is what’s done the worse to him. No one wins when something like this happens. I hope this young privileged boy uses his resources to do good, this chance he got to not have to go to pelican bay, san Quentin etc like my friend did. My friend has never felt sorry for himself once for what prison was like, he felt he deserved every second. He wasn’t doing well mentally (survivors guilt) and his opportunities were few bc he is a felon so I helped him get a job with cal fire, he works at a national park now and helps with fires and preventing them when needed. He’s dedicated his life to try and make up for the one took, so sad. No one wins and everyone loses when something like this happens.
When people can get years for weed but a rich kid walks free with multiple murders
Right. Smfh
Vehicular manslaughter*, murder is premeditated and committed out of cold blood, this was negligence and stupidity.
I agree, he deserves a lengthy prison sentence
@@mattdenson1999 I consider it murder. He was playing "chicken" with people's lives with the intent to kill
Evan K smh
That judge should be fired and thrown into prison. What a sick joke.
Exactly.
@ So you wouldn't care if your mommy or daughter if u had 1 got killed..
And the guy didn't get time
Ammathein no because of what he did that was so clearly wrong
@@jaydonjohnston798 I garuntee your below the age of 15
@@ok-ye3wr he is
Wow hearing that father not able to recognize his own daughter is truly heartbreaking. It's so tragic and what's worse is that boy faced no consequences
LOL.. LMAO.. 666th comment here..
@@belllynbaysraysbrielleeant374 ?
My sister in law was just killed in july by a tree that fell on her trailer..it crushed her it she was completely unrecognizable it was horrifying and will scar us forever
@@Drod11z ignore them, they’re just a troll
I’ll never get over how disgusting this judge was about this case. Imagine letting a dude walk away from driving under the influence and taking lives from other people just because he’s rich. But they’ll lock you up for getting a speeding ticket or having marijuana on you. That makes so much sense. I despise the court system nowadays.
The court system is good. It’s good to know that if you’re stacked enough, got enough bread, you don’t have to worry about seeing a prison cell…ever
Underaged drinking is a crime in itself - THIS JUDGE NEEDS TO BE DISBARRED!!!
Speeding is one of the leading causes of vehicular homicide, but if you mean hassling people over 10 miles over the limit, I agree with you.
Was this his first run-in with the law? Most states have a deferred adjudication program where you don’t have to go to prison on your first offense. Didn’t this kid get like 10 years of probation? That stuff isn’t a walk in the park either.
You don't even know the half of it. After this he was arrested in Mexico with his mother after failing to check in with his probation officer and served 2 years. Then he was arrested again on a probation violation for smoking weed and was let out after 1 day. It's a fucking diacrace.
Imagine killing 4 people while drunk, 16 years old, not getting any jail time.
Imagine having the last name couch
Rattlesnake It’s funny how less than worthless people like this end up enjoying so much wealth.
We as Americans also call 16 a child/minor when the vast majority of Americans are cool with or do not care about a 16 year old legally driving a car "when they can kill someone" or when the commit premeditated murder and being treated like an adult.
When it comes to sex they get treated like a child/minor even when they agree to it which is hypocritical even though there is a context they can be legally married at both 16 and 17.
You want to talk like the judge is corrupt but the laws that defend 16 is a child/minor/baby also defend the judge and 16 year old too.
Rattlesnake In my country, killing people while drunk results in life imprisonment.
Dan Raiders Warriors Sharks Giants I couldn’t have said it better. The hypocrisy when it comes to “minors” is astonishing.
My 7th grade history teacher was Mr. couch
No jail time for killing four people? One of the most disgusting things I have heard in a long time.
Money talks. It talks far too much in this country
Yeah he then fled the country after he was seen playing beer pong with friends then spent 2 years in jail and is now released just in time for his 21st birthday I’m sure he will celebrate with alcohol while 4 other people don’t even get to breathe
Yeah it's cuz he's white and rich
Money is the root of all evil
@@thegoatxxx5949 if you hate money much, then get rid of ur clothes.
Should have given him 110 years.
That is if he showed remorse and guilt for his crime. (And if he wasn’t drunk) 😔
That boy needs to be held accountable! It's sad how money rules while others are suffering their losses.
The parents should be held accountable also.
The judge needs to be investigated. Something rotten going on here. You can't kill 7 people drunk driving and not go to prison.
Oh my bad, guess if he only killed 4 he should walk. What the fuck is a derp?
I think you mean twerp. Like a punk ass kid. I'm sure you see that in the mirror every day.💀
Maniac Rider AGREED. I smell SOMETHING FISHY!
I agree. I feel like maybe there was alot of cash involved. So fucked up.
@Heywood Jablowme What the fuck does the number matter? If he killed even one person he deserves prison time.
@@ManiacRider3113 lol search derp and youll see what he means it's funny af
If he was black or poor he would be serving life without parole
I disagree
Connor Townsend Townsend- Then you are just ignorant, anyone that’s not of social stranding or white would most likely get life for the deaths of 4 people. Go look at other cases that involves poor, or people of color and that’s including every race that’s brought down by society aka racist white people or racist people in general.
Connor Townsend Townsend/ Just because YOU don’t experience what minority’s experience doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen because it does happen and us minority’s can see that clear as days.
@@ctown6592 of course you do
Sad but true
Always the drunk drives never die it’s always the innocent that pass away . Him not getting sentenced was a huge punch in the face for the families of the people that passed , they got no justice at all so sad I would be so angry
666th comment here..
Who wouldn't be angry ?
As a 11 year old child who survived a terrifying car crash with 2 cars involved, this sickens me that a teen who killed *4* people and didn't get any jail time is honestly disappointing.
Kid murders 4 people and it's disappointing? It's downright abhorrent. He should have been sent to the chair for this
I hate it when reporters use the phrase "in the wrong place at the wrong time." His victims were where they were supposed to be, minding their own business. HE was the one who was out doing what he had no business doing, NOT them.
True good thinking but he doesn't get jail? Why? Money or skin color? Both? Something wrong here
@@bryanbarrera1561 Both, I'd say.
@@youtubehatesfreespeech2245 I've worked in places where "white people" are browsing Amazon and Reddit while doing their job using company hours. So don't you date tell me that. Ever race has people who are very diligent in their work
SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE IGNORANT PEOPLE WHO STILL THINK THEY’RE RIGHT!!
roguegirl29 The phrase “in the wrong place in the wrong time” isn’t usually used to say someone was somewhere they weren’t supposed to be. I don’t think anyone is trying to blame the victims.
Imagine losing your wife of probably 20 years and your daughter and having to carry on with life. Your house has to feel so empty.
@LesterChesterSylvester TheMolester burn
@Alana Flewelling Yep. And if you'd go to kill him, you'd get 20 years in prison. Love it
@@samaki8525 worth it tho
@@samaki8525 id rather serve 20 years than let him walk free.
@@hboogy101 what'd he say?
That judge must have gotten a gigantic payoff from the parents.
Drunk driving? One strike, you're out. License revoked for life.
Kill people while driving? Manslaughter in the very least. Drunkenness is not an exonerating circumstance, it's a condemning one!
The way you are saying it, "drunk driving? one strike, you're out. License revoked for life" and then "Kill people while driving? Manslaughter in the very least", it sounds good in spirit, especially after watching this video, but it's really just not realistic in any way or indictive or how we do law in the US. Don't take that as me wanting to let people get away with driving drunk or anything related, I'm just pointing this out because it doesn't seem like you considered any possible scenario or repercussions related to what you would hope for.
@@IJustFiguredThisOut More serious repercussions for being a serious and imminent danger to the public at large seems reasonable.
Negligent parents + spoiled child = worst case scenario.
welcome to the White world of America!
Diogenes the Cynic you are beyond stupid. this video shows all the evidence
Kien Nguyen 400th like
Takingout thetrash in your tiny pea brain you think no white people are poor, ok. wake the fuck up
I'm white and I'm poor but theres other colors that are rich to AND THEY GET AWAY WITH STUFF TO MONEY TALKS IDIOTS NOT YOUR COLOR
I’m sick of rich people getting away with so much.
I know this dumbass kid just killed 4 people. And richness got him out of it.🤬
He paid the judge I bet
Like Donald Trump.
I agree MsBrasil, Money can be power, but it can also turn you into an arrogant and selfish bitchhole
@@Amaruforlife please explain
"He suffers from Affluenza, he is rich and his parents wongly told him that money can buy him out of every problem.
That's why he should pay 500k and not serve jail time"
Soooo.... it wasn't wrong?
I wiuld gladly start and sign a petition to get this kid behind bars
People got years In prison for smuggling avocados across the border but this kid gets out Scott free
Literally nobody has gotten years of prison time for smuggling avocados. Are you dumb?
iknowyouarebutwhatami are YOU dumb? Smuggling in foreign things from other countries is a FELONY. Don’t believe it? Try google lmfao
Smuggling in and of itself, is a felony offense. Just like piracy.
#themoreyouknow 💯
@@PixieLove5 Yeah, thats why they get years of prison.
Heaven Leigh Casteel yea cuz people put drugs in them
@@PixieLove5 Your name is why I'm a bookworm! My mom bought me the book and I refused because I thought it was churchy since she was hardcore Catholic and I was a goth 90's Marilyn Manson teen lol. Finished it in 2 days, bought every sequel to it, and started reading 24/7. I'd be grounded from books instead of friends. Now as a teacher, I frequently assign it to my students who hate reading. Even my son asked if there's a part 2 or "are you gonna leave me hanging?"
that dude lost his daughter and wife. how is he even able to appear on camera
Probably did it in determination that justice would be served.
I do wonder that aswell
@@KyleSurette13 real talk
I waz thinking the same thing.
How couldn't he ? He needs and wants to be heard.
If he was really so pampered that he didn't know right from wrong, then that was all the more reason for him to be put in jail. Let the prison teach him what his parents failed to.
So much Appreciation for the Dad who lost his daughter and his wife. Love and may god be with you 💜
Basically if ur rich u can play gta5 irl
Lmaoo
True true
well heres proof
Yep you right
Like the governments do, nothing new.
You know what cures affluenza? Experiencing consequences for one's actions.
guillotine.
I agree. I love my kids but I wouldn’t let them get away with something like this.
*Death
White boy
That was still an underage boy. Other countries won't give underaged a jail sentence. Regardless of his wealth or his attourney and not because. There is no affluenza in Germany. No jailtime for kids.
I can’t even imagine the horror and devastation this kid caused. When this father told his kids to pray , I lost it. God will be there to help them through this nightmare. God please protect these families and comfort them.
So God will help them after, but not before?
@@johnross456 finally, a sane comment
The only consolation is the subsequent lawsuits surely bankrupted his parents.
Getting years in prison for weed, but killing 4 people and injuring 10 more while being drinking and driving not even going to jail
Government doesn't profit from weed.....sometimes.
@Heywood Jablowme that's cardboard cutout version of what a white persons life is like. The victims were white yet they received no justice from a judicial system that favors white people? ??
Its money and status my friend, race isnt the answer to everything
@Heywood Jablowme *luckily he's rich
@@elmo2800 really??? Make this kid black.....
Elmo where white peoples have a more diverse spread of the national wealth, while black people are disproportionately working poor. Just stop ✋ 🛑
to this day the judge should be held accountable for letting him off... he ruined these lives
The judge should get life in prison without the possibility of parole
Mathew Horodner i wouldnt say that much...maybe charge with obstruction of jusice, and 1 of criminal negligence.
The Senate he needs to be punished. Ignorance is not an excuse. Killed for his actions no, 10 years in prison? Yep.
@The Senate I think about twenty years of "Bubba" therapy..will be sufficient.
@@mathewhorodner2000 thats stupid, might ass well just put it to the actuall killer.
I just watched a video of a woman accidentally killing three people in a drunk driving accident she showed true remorse and was truly regretful and she got 51 years🤦🏾♀️
A perfect example of how wealthy people don’t experience the judicial system the way the rest of us do.....
He had a big house big cars big wallet.
The only thing lacking was a big brain.
No not a big brain. A rat could have avoided this.
@@woahitscoby9122 and the man above was implying that he was lacking a brain in general. alluding to the fact that a rat with a tiny brain wouldn't have done this.
Iron Razor hahahhashahaha
You got a big ass mouth bruh
A big brain and a heart
The judge heard all these people and their sides of the story and still said “nah, he good”
the judge is not a god he has to follow the laws and some real good lawyers made the judge do what he did. this is a minor remember. You know like the poor kid that gets pushed in to a gang, and shoots some one and wants a break.
@Modern Savage25 You're naive.
Modern Savage25 Right
Doctor McGoveran you wouldn’t think that had it been your family/friend or even yourself who was killed
@@doctormcgoveran2194 The fact you think a good lawyer can save someone from punishment of a crime as heinous as this that they clearly committed is abysmal. A good lawyer may help reduce time, but less than a year sentence? I'm sorry, but not even the BEST LAWYER IN THE WORLD should be able to convince a quadruple murder + 14 other injured from DUI to bring a sentence to less than a year. People typically serve at least a few years for a SINGLE drunk driving murder, much less multiple. In this case, I wouldn't doubt if the judge was paid off and it had nothing to do with a good lawyer. This judge should be debarred and removed.
RIP to all those that past and all those that survived I wish you all a safe recovery.
I will never understand why the person who causes these accidents always walks away alive & well.
imagine being so drunk you lose control of a vehicle while driving in a complete straight line
Never driven drunk before have you
Imagine driving in a complete straight line while being fucking DRUNK. Now THAT'S scary
Lmao wtf are you talking about
Mark Rampersad yup
yeah wtf ive only driven drunk a few times.. you gotta be a real dumbass fr to crash goin str8 wtf hahahaha n why he look like a angry grinch face kid
My car was hit by a drunk driver and totaled. Some teenager in a big truck just like this who fled the scene and was arrested after leaving his license plate imbedded in my bumper. My thoughts after walking out of work to see my car folded in half was “thank god i wasn’t in the car I would be dead.” But the next day, my friend drove me to work and on the highway, someone hit us and pushed us into the barrier, and we had to go in the ambulance to the hospital. Life is crazy but I could have died two times within 18 hours so you have to be thankful. I have no sympathy for anyone who drives intoxicated and puts other people’s lives in danger.
Your not meant to live i guess maybe now you cant die..????
craxygirl we're glad you're still here :)
that guy got the worst case of karma ever lol
yea whoa same thing happened to me also man xd xd
I wish someone would hit his car and kill him in drunk driving and the guy that kills him uses affluenza
The darkest pit of hell is opened whole waiting for this judge. Letting somebody getting away with murder of 7 people is unacceptable.
If the driver was a poor black man, he would’ve got the death penalty for this
This judge is a plain fool. He should be JAILED too. That stupid kid deserved a lifetime in jail. The parents are irresponsible like I have never seen before. Such a lovely world these days.
The judge even said that was the dumbest thing he'd ever heard.
Kavish Persad The judge was probably bribed.
Smitty Werben Jaeger man Jensen
Source?
Judge can't do much about it, he has to go by the laws and they are very well developed in this area. It is not a judge makes will call system.If the judge wanted to give him a stiff penalty it may get flipped on appeal.
@@doctormcgoveran2194 are you serious? Dude should have gotten 4 counts of vehicular manslaughter, endangering how many lives?, reckless op, DUI. The judge 100% was paid for the deal or the Couchs lawyer knew some shit about the Judge or was owed one by the judge. That's how the judicial system really works.
Someone got 50 years for killing 3 people while drunk.
Julian Beatty money talk
Bet that person was poor af
He should've got the death penalty
@@firearm36 Yes, because killing someone for killing makes sense.
far exponent how does it not make sense. If someone kills someone. That’s someone’s life. A whole fucking life. I think they deserve to die if they want to take and end someone’s life.
Total BS! The Judge should go to prison since he did not.
The most blatant sign of bad parenting in America is giving your kid a brand new car but not being bothered to teach them to drive. So many teens driving shiny Jeeps and F-150s with no impulse control at all
I feel awful for the father who lost his wife and daughter R.I.P
SwiFtRush3r it’s bullshit
Even worse it was the day before Fathers Day
I feel bad for all the familys
At that point how does someone move forward from that? Your entire family gone to some piece of shit?
@Trinexx007 your a bitch then
“Affluenza” having too much money that you can pay off a judge to change a life sentence to a misdemeanor.
6ix9ine
It wasn’t even a misdemeanor I thought.
It was in front of a jury. Why don’t you keep your mouth shut before you get smacked
Lotts Aquatics it doesnt fucking matter???? court is unjust.
He didn’t pay off the judge he was probably able to get a good lawyer
No matter how many victims you leave in your wake you'll be forgiven. What a horrible horrible excuse for morality.
All these years later, and this still makes me sick
If I were that dad, I'd get drunk, hit him with my car, and go before the same judge and say, "no crime committed here, right? Can I go home now?"
Ms.MonicaPyle The dads not rich so the judge would give him 15 years
@@solidsob4310 true
killing someone because they committed murder is not the right thing u would get a life sentence
@@taxationevasion696 it's easy to say that when it's not your dead child or spouse. Killing someone for murder is called the death penalty.
why ? you would doing a premeditated crime and this was an accident.
The judge should also rot for his greed.Such an heartless judge
How did he not get a maximum life sentence? Our judicial system is completely shattered.
People like him are the reason why I’m scared to drive.
The judge must be a corrupt. How did he release a murderer like that?
@Slit Wrist Misfit people aren't stupid, they know that alcohol will impair their senses and can cause them to have an accident, if they still drive knowing that they may kill someone, they should respond for their actions.
@Slit Wrist Misfit Slit Wrist Misfit well we both agree that his sentence was a joke, he will most likely do it again. I thought you were defending the guy by saying that he committed manslaughter. I see your point and I agree he didn't have the intention of killing the people, but I bet he wasn't remorseful when he realized what he did .
All Judges are corrupt
@@Drifter793 some...not all
Brasileiroamerica
The judge received a huge ridiculous amount of money under the table worth enough to put in risk his carer that's why
Rich kid gets away with murder because apparently he didn't learn right from wrong from his parents.... if that was his defense, why are so many people in jail... oh thats right, because they can't afford an army of lawyers and probably paying off a few people too.
Esteban Garita that's the right race
Esteban Garita thing about rich kids they don’t know the value of damage because they pay it off easily and can pay the bail
And you would know this How ?
Mens rea, actus reus but he should def be doing life
They should hold the parents if since they got their son off with super lawyer
I was reading into this story more and found out that the mom was actually having sex with her son whose a murderer. And the dad just allowed it. They are the worst kind of ppl.
Terrible
The driver should of gotten several life sentences for that because he knew better.
“The question on everyone’s mind, ‘where were his parents?”
No, the question is, why do the rich not live by the same rules as the rest of us?
RetroGuy76 you forgot Kardashian he became famous for getting him off so easily
Still made his stupid ass famous I boycott that family shows not worth it
How shameful RetroGuy76
Edgar Bwire His lawyer was the Kardashian.
Flying Spaghetti Monster exactly!
Not an emotional person, but tears swelling up for the father who lost his daughter and wife
I am with you on that.this proves one of my theory's to stay alive. If there is a traffic accident get the hell away from the road.those first four people did not have to stand there right by the road.I am blaming them they are dead and it is for god to decide now. GET AWAY FROM THE ROAD IF THERE IS A PROBLEM. ACCIDENT ETC. Get out of the road. away from the ditch.
@@doctormcgoveran2194 Your blaming the the death of the first 4 people for standing in the road and not the drunk driver?
well....I guess you are....cause im not an emotional person and I don't feel a thing!
@@Ambient-Dreamscape1 I volunteered at a road side safety facility,I learn a lesson from every tragedy, GET THE HELL AWAY FROM THE ROAD. EVERYBODY HAD A PART, SAFETY IS JOB ONE. Believe it or not there was plenty of stupid to go around,still is plenty. DON'T RIDE WITH DRUNKS.I did not write the laws I only read them.There are two sides to every case. The kids side says he was only in one bad wreck, the prosecutors side says four people dead.I can't bring back the dead, but this can save the next one..STAY AWAY FROM THE ROAD.
@@doctormcgoveran2194 so how were they supposed to help? You're an idiot. If there's a car wreck in the road, someone will be in the road.
I’ll never understand why 16 year olds are allowed to drive in America
People need to stand up to0 the courrption. Everyone from this district need to press charges on the judge for failing his oath of service. Demand a change. We the people can fix this
I feel sad for the man, he lost his wife and daughter. This just make the life you wanted collapse.
TheLlama the night before Father’s Day too.
and the driver is free, served 2 years of prison, his ankle monitor removed a year ago
if i was the man i would probably go and kill the kid
@@get_it8473 r just keep em in your basement and feed him catfood and make him shit and piss where he stands and maybe shoot him with a bb gun every once and a while...
😭😭😭😭😭😭
This is heartbreaking.. Rich people get away with murder.
FatherDingo but,what can We do about that The government takes your money and say Fuck off
This kid won the battle .. but he'll loose the war!🔥
The Clintons
Oj didn’t ..
FatherDingo its “vehicular manslaughter” not murder
Bullshit right
If rich kids can claim affluenza due to privilege then why cant poor kids claim survival due to poverty?
RIP to all the people that were killed that night and prayers to their families and friends.
If this isn't evidence for wealth inequality, I don't know what is.
It’s evidence money has too much power. Not evidence of wealth inequality. Lots of people work their asses off for the money they have.
@Axel Smith everyone should get a public defender hows about that and tax the rich more to pay for them because there the ones fucking up our court system
@Axel Smith that is the proof of wealth inequality. The family was wealthy enough to buy a defense team that could spin this into no jail time for their son.
@Axel Smith okay that comment is retarded bud. " they arent getting away cuz they are rich they are gettign away because they can afford better lawyers.... Cuz they are rich. Think about how dumb you just sounded buddy
Wealthy people shouldn't be equal, they deserve more, but my gosh, they shouldn't get away with crimes, especially not like this.
This video just proves how messed up the U.S Justice system is...
@@NearPanther92 No it’s the system that creates guidelines for crimes that all must follow. That’s why a kid who sold edibles got life and this guy can kill multiple people and not spend a day in jail.
LOL.. LMAO.. 666th comment here..
all they care about is money ...sorry not sorry it's all financial
It's not the US justice system. It's the judge. I smell a bribe. Hopefully evidence comes to light of what truly happened and he gets retried and sentenced to life along with the judge. Unfortunately there is no such thing as a perfect criminal justice system.
The judge should be fired. This verdict is honestly ludicrous.
They need to ban alcohol, this is a real problem and it is the ONLY way to combat Drunk Driving.
Banning alcohol will not stop drunk driving just like taking away guns won't stop criminals from using them to kill others. In this case Ethan should have been given at least 20 years in prison for killing those 4 people.
If he'd killed my loved one I would find him and he'd of wished he'd been sentenced.
When justice is denied because the system is corrupt, you've got to step up and do it yourself, the elites will soon get the message.
Fuck yeah!!
Straight up dude, straight up.
@Oh yeah chungus
Don't judge a comment by a profile pic then.
There are very few cases that I wouldn't mind seeing vigilante justice served. This is definitely one of them.
Fr. He wouldve died outside that court house as a msg if that was my kid/wife.
Can you imagine a kid from a poor home tying to use having distant parents as an excuse?
I feel really sorry for that dad to see his daughter like that
people get years for thing that dont matter but this kid with no struggles GETS AWAY WITH IT!?!?!?!?
“Affluenza” aka mommy and daddy paid off the system.
Nicole Shepherd does the affluenza excuse work for blacks, mexicsns, asians etc? Cuz last time i check it doesnt
@@subzerofromny735 the literal definition of affluenza: a psychological malaise supposedly affecting wealthy young people, symptoms of which include a lack of motivation, feelings of guilt, and a sense of isolation. You do realize there are wealthy people who aren't white right? Like I'm white and broke as shit and don't get shit from anyone. I've met spoiled brats of all races in high school. Affluenza is rich people being assholes. Also, its not hard to google, you should try it next time before saying something is what it's not. Mkay?
@@subzerofromny735 dude you are starting with the wrong person because my thing is that kid should be sitting behind bars but isnt because his parents bought out the system. Go use the wonderful internet that you use to spread your false hate to look up spoiled rich brats and go and see how diverse they are. A girl I went to school with was a minority but daddy was a cop and she got put of multiple underages and DUI's just off her fathers prowess. Also, you are racist if you can call something a "white persons disease" when thats not what it means at all. But way to shape it to fit your messed up agenda. This conversation is over, I don't waste my time on martyrs.
Clutch Master white people isn’t a disease, it’s a skin trait. You racist bastard.
If it sounds like a disease...it's probably a disease.
The judge, parents, and that pos kid, all deserve to be in prison for life.
Yup
I’d put partial blame on the group of people who declare everything a sickness that gets people out of prison time.
Man, the editors of this video. They are having so much fun.
Fours years later, The anger is still there. The pain is still there
I don't think that anyone would get over something like this, even more so when justice isn't served!!!
it doesn't matter what kind of problems you have, he killed 3 people. that's murder.
4
not murder, it's manslaughter
@@applesas942 AppleSas It matters just as much as your comment matters, I am educating.
Vehicular manslaughter, they can't charge him with murder because there was no "intent". In other words, he wasn't trying to kill anybody, he was just "negligent" or, being stupid, which resulted in 4 fatalities.
Mike Martin he should at least get charged with negligent driving and unintentional manslaughter right? Sorry I don’t know much about law
Rip to deceased and my condolences to the families. How did that teen not get jail time?????
I recently had my own dui incident i wrecked my own car severely injuring myself and no one else by the luck of God i didn't be hurt any bystanders but im still in the er trying to recover thank the Lord
This story angers me so much. Those poor people who were involved keep living a nightmare daily and the rich kids family is fine. Just heart breaking.
Eu achava que a justiça dos EUA fossem para todos , mas vejo que não é só no BRASIL que ricos brancos não ficam presos .
Marie Vis Cry me a river snowflake
@@-_--_--- why must you be so angry? If you believe the word snowflake is an insult you're incorrect. 1 might be thin and melt quickly but many "snowflakes" can cause an avalanche. So I'll be a snowflake any day 😉
@@marieasmr9285 You obviously thought snowflake was an insult because you thought I was angry when I used that word and started ranting off about the word "snowflake" you make no sense snowflake 🥴 You were clearly the angry one here to begin since you said "tHiS sToRy aNgErS mE sO mUcH"
@@marieasmr9285 "that comment was meant to cause anger but it didn't" yet me the person who typed the comment said it wasn't. You make no sense I already said what I said that me calling you a snowflake obviously bothered you since you proceeded ranting about it. You're not fooling anybody bud I didn't meant it as an insult but you did and I really don't care if you took it like that. I wanted to say something so therefore I said it 🤷🏻♂️
That Judge should have been fired and he should have been sentenced to death
@Killer Chicken in Singapore no
It’s crazy knowing that drunk drivers typically survive the accident because they are so drunk they don’t brace for impact
This should be shown to many high school students about drinking and driving ! I hope that kid that caused this is locked up in a cell for 23 hours a day and the parents allowed there son to drink and drive is also behind bars
Just goes to show if your rich enough you can get away from literally anything.
XxMr DeadxX As shown everyday by the Trumps!
This kid's parents is being sued into oblivion by at least 5 different cases. I hope all of it succeeds and this family ends up rummaging in the scraps for the rest of their pathetic lives.
icantw8 yes the poor house is next for them ..then the gutter
This makes me so mad imagine your familly member were killed you would want justice
Parents should be held accountable. They should loose parental rights, no sense at all raising a child.
Something tells me this judge was heavily bribed 🤑💸
and corrupt
merge m8 obviously the judge is a fucking bitch
Agree he got paid off,corrupt as they come
The judge got a free roof & 30% off of any upgrades.
Stop letting things tell you things😒
We need the judge to explain why the teen didn’t get prison time smfh absolutely ridiculous
who cares
Thexogamer2341 I do, and the majority of people watching id imagine.
@@trtlxthexo9643 idk, the victims? Why would people not care about this, a psychopath is roaming freely on the public
Do you want to know why. The judge got paid half a million dollars
honest to god? I think that he is to blame but so are all the people who he was drinking with that decided they wanted to go to the store and decided to get into that truck with him knowing that they were all drunk. He deserves massive amounts of punishment but so do the people that joined in with him.
Disgusting how this spoiled brat literally got away with murder. The "justice" system is beyond broken. I'm sure that judge would've come to a different verdict if it happened to their loved ones. SHAME.
It's so important to have a designated driver. Once you've drunk enough to be impaired, you're no longer capable of understanding that you're impaired.
Absolutely true. TY
If he was a minority or poor he would be in jail right now! 🤷🏽♀️
If he was black and rich he wouldn't go to jail.
@@youtubehatesfreespeech2245 bullshit. I maybe white, but I've gone to many places... I've seen many different races of people working just as hard as the others. But, elitist snobs are the social minority... only 1%of this country... THEY NEVER DO SHIT.
But had Couch done th is in my home state, he would get no less than life in prison.
Stupidity at its finest. Just stop with this "I'm opressed" bullshit and grow a pair
He would be dead.
Open World Gamer ok whatever you say burger flipper.
omg the poor father :( They honestly need much harsher sentences for DUIs. So many people do it and don't take it seriously because the punishment is so negligible
Ikr
As long as it isn't involving cannabis then I can agree
Medical grower UK why? I understand the effects aren’t as severe as alcohol but driving is definitely impaired
@@chemo6685 well there's a limit I allow, I don't mean to get absolute wrecked like low tolerance people do and go out,drive, end up getting drug tested .... I'm more accepting to the idea that someone shouldn't use high nor medium amounts generally speaking if your a medical user and you need to drive, take a bit until the pains away and you're not intoxicated. I should've added more context as here in the UK medical users who drive and only have took small amounts a day or something along those lines are getting their licenses revoked... that I don't agree with there need to be a reasonable limit just like alcohol.
I’ve actually had a dui so no I wouldn’t make it any harsher people will do what they do
Fun fact: There's no picture of Ethan Couch on Wikipedia. I wonder why
This needs to be shown to all the mothers on social media who brag about never telling their child no!!! “I gave birth to them so why say no to them, they didn’t ask to be born”. And that is why in 20 years your looking at your child behind bars with no being a daily word!!! In my family we have a saying “raise your kids or society will”.
If my kid did this. Rich or not they need to serve time.
Shiet, they’ll gladly put your son away for life for stupid shit. Lifes great when youre white
@@mftripz8445 not everythings a race issue just sayin
iLostMyXbox21 your right, but this is blatant bias. We both know a rich black teen who did this exact crime will be tried as an adult and be put away for life. Also, while not everything is a race issue being true, a good chunk of it is. You just gotta step back and look at america again. Take the legal system for example and start looking up, war on drugs, crack epidemic, felony list, incarceration rates since 1971 by race proportions. On top of this, look up political disenfrachisement and see how easy it is to feel like black man in the jim crow era
@@mftripz8445 he honestly deserves life in jail. I still don't think its a race thing. But you're right, if it was a black teen (or another person in general) they'd be getting life. But I do agree with you that the legal system is fucked up. Ive believed that ever since I was a little kid when I found out that a hacker solved a rape case, and got more time in jail than the rapist. So honestly, our legal system is shit.
@ChromaDark so you are saying that if your kid killed 4 people, you would not care and you would just let them sit back and pretend nothing happened? love has nothing to do with it, she is saying that if her kid did that, then she would want her kid to have consequences for her actions. you can still love your child and have your child get punished for something they did
I seriously hope someone finds this boy and brings justice for these families since the system failed them.
@@abadperson5628 listen to you nigga. You probably are white. If someone in this comment section wants to fuck this white boy up he can nigga.
@@plague_seeker9354 oh ok I won't.
@@godoffestivals7394 chill out racist guy wasn't even defending the dumbass kid
Joshua vega Vega damn that was a fucking cringe ass rant my dude, we niggas disown you
@@GstrydsS 12 years ago, a young man killed 2 young girls ... drunk ... dad and mom have money. he moved to another state without a day in prison
CORRUPTION!!!!
The parents need to be in jail for screwing up their rotten kid.
Hope the kid realizes someday, and lives in remorse and guilt for the rest of his life.
I hope he has a long, long life .
I had a friend who, at 18, drove drunk, crashed and killed his best friend since childhood. Both of his parents were professors at a famous college, one had been awarded a pitzer prize. They were very wealthy. He was sentenced to California prisons like everyone else does. He did over 5 years (his sentence was like 10-12 something like that, doesn’t seem long to some but ca prisons are not a walk in the park). The victims family even went to court and begged the judge for leniency because they had been best friends, but he was treated like everyone else. He’s out now, prison SCREWED him up but the guilt is what’s done the worse to him. No one wins when something like this happens. I hope this young privileged boy uses his resources to do good, this chance he got to not have to go to pelican bay, san Quentin etc like my friend did. My friend has never felt sorry for himself once for what prison was like, he felt he deserved every second. He wasn’t doing well mentally (survivors guilt) and his opportunities were few bc he is a felon so I helped him get a job with cal fire, he works at a national park now and helps with fires and preventing them when needed. He’s dedicated his life to try and make up for the one took, so sad. No one wins and everyone loses when something like this happens.
Thank you for this