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Probation, rehab for four DWI deaths seems woefully inadequate
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/columnists/jacquielynn-floyd/20131211-floyd-probation-rehab-for-four-dwi-deaths-seems-woefully-inadequate.eceProbation, rehab for four DWI deaths seems woefully inadequate
Jacquielynn Floyd
jfloyd@dallasnews.com
Published: 11 December 2013 09:24 PM
In case you’re worrying over where 16-year-old Ethan Couch has been since last summer, when he got fall-down drunk and killed four people in a gruesome drunken-driving wreck, set your mind at ease.
He has been staying at an exceptionally pleasant campus-style residential counseling center near Newport Beach, Calif. It specializes in chef-prepared meals, equine therapy, martial-arts training, yoga and nature hikes.
It’s described as a “respectful recovery environment” where teenagers can get the “unconditional love they need to heal.”
According to Couch’s lawyers and, apparently, to the judge who sentenced him this week, the Keller teen needs healing because he is the tragic survivor of a bad upbringing.