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  • boredjedi
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    • Jun 2007
    • 7528

    #1

    Affluenza

    Meant to post this yesterday

    Teenager kills 4 people in a DUI claim rich privilege made you do it. Get off basically scott free.

    Teenagerโ€™s Sentence in Fatal Drunken-Driving Case Stirs โ€˜Affluenzaโ€™ Debate

    HOUSTON โ€” Wealth has never had a stigma in the affluent suburbs of Fort Worth, where the town of Westlake landed, to no oneโ€™s surprise, on Forbesโ€™ list of Americaโ€™s most affluent neighborhoods last year with a median income of $250,000.

    But in recent days, the implications of being rich have set off an emotional, angry debate that has stretched far beyond the North Texas suburbs, after a juvenile court judge sentenced a 16-year-old from a well-off family to 10 yearsโ€™ probation for killing four people in a drunken-driving crash.

    The judge, Jean Boyd, on Tuesday declined to give the teenager, Ethan Couch, the punishment sought by Tarrant County prosecutors โ€” 20 years in prison โ€” and instead ordered him to be placed in a long-term treatment facility while on probation. Judge Boyd did not discuss her reasoning for her order, but it came after a psychologist called by the defense argued that Mr. Couch should not be sent to prison because he suffered from โ€œaffluenzaโ€ โ€” a term that dates at least to the 1980s to describe the psychological problems that can afflict children of privilege.

    Prosecutors said they had never heard of a case where the defense tried to blame a young manโ€™s conduct on the parentsโ€™ wealth. And the use of the term and the judgeโ€™s sentence have outraged the families of those Mr. Couch killed and injured, as well as victim rights advocates who questioned whether a teenager from a low-income family would have received as lenient a penalty.

    โ€œWe are disappointed by the punishment assessed, but have no power under the law to change or overturn it,โ€ one of the prosecutors, Richard Alpert, said in a statement.

    A prominent advocate for victimsโ€™ rights reacted to the sentence with scorn. โ€œJust when you think our excuse-making culture has sunk as low as it can go, somebody goes yet lower,โ€ said Kent Scheidegger, the legal director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in Sacramento.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/14/us...bate.html?_r=0


    Update: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1547671
    http://eighteenlightyearsago.ytmnd.com/
  • moomoo
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    • Apr 2007
    • 1359

    #2
    Re: Affluenza

    Ugh, if only karma were real. Oh well, let's hope this asshole meets his end soon anyway. And that judge needs a good smacking too.

    edit: what, content filters on GL?

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    • boredjedi
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      • Jun 2007
      • 7528

      #3
      Re: Affluenza

      test - asshole

      Well smack my butt :)
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      • Buzz
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        • Jan 2009
        • 4209

        #4
        Re: Affluenza

        Originally posted by moomoo
        what, content filters on gl?
        Test: Schweinehund, Arschloch, Hurensohn, Kackbratze...no problem detected
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        • LazyPooky
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          • Oct 2007
          • 7401

          #5
          Re: Affluenza

          Originally posted by moomoo
          edit: what, content filters on GL?
          That was still a leftover-word from the test of the Word Replacement app that I installed some time ago. 'ass' was actually the only word. Funny you figured it out this way ;)
          Magnรบs: - I have fans of all ages and I don't think it's weird when older people like LazyTown. LazyTown appeals to people for many different reasons: dancing, acrobatics, etc.

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