Why would a teen boy ever kill 4 people and injure 9 people? In fact Ethan Couch did this. He killed and injured the people in Burleson, Texas on June 15, 2013. Ethan Couch should be tried as adult with maximum sentence because, the severity of the crime, his mental health, and that he could change. Ethan Couch should be tried as an adult because the severity of the crime. “Authorities said Couch, then 16, was drunk when the pickup he was driving plowed into four pedestrians on a road in Burleson, Texas, in June 15, 2013. Couch’s vehicle also struck a powered care, which then slid into another vehicle headed in the opposite direction. Two people riding in the bed of the teen’s pickup were tossed in the crash and severely injured” (Hanna). Ethan was acting like an adult when he was driving because he was drinking and driving. Also, “The Texas teenager who killed four people and injured nine in a drunk driving crash and then avoided jail will by running off to Mexico will spend another two years in jail as he forced justice for the first time as a n adult” (Ashford). When Ethan Couch killed and injured the people, he went to Mexico and when they found him, he got put in …show more content…
“During Couch’s sentencing, a psychologist hired by the defense testified that the teen was a product of ‘affluenza’--and that irresponsible parenting and ‘strongly enabled’ the accident…” (Klass). Ethan Couch can take care of himself because since his parents are irresponsible and they won’t take care of him. But, “After his defense team argued that he suffered from ‘affluenza’-which they said meant that he was unable to tell right from wrong after being raised by wealthy parents-he was sentenced to rehab and 10 years probation” (Kasperkevic). Ethan Couch’s team were arguing about his health and now he is supposed to take care of himself. Since Ethan Couch’s parents are irresponsible, he now has to take care of