I think one glance at his current mugshot will tell you he is absolutely miserable. Beyond miserable.
I hope he is miserable. He should be!! He has destroyed so many lives!! Why should he NOT be miserable?????
I think one glance at his current mugshot will tell you he is absolutely miserable. Beyond miserable.
I hope he is miserable. He should be!! He has destroyed so many lives!! Why should he NOT be miserable?????
His ADULT Mugshot
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https://twitter.com/SheriffAnderson
Ethan is being held in a maximum security single cell.
He has an adult certification hearing scheduled on Feb 19.
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort-worth/article58679543.html
Well, I personally don't ever hope anyone is miserable their whole lives for a very stupid, very youthful accident. But in your earlier post you said your hope is that he could straighten out his life, and no, that's not really possible. When you kill several people and maim an acquaintance, it's unlikely you can ever "straighten out your life".
What looks like joyful hilarity to some can actually be screaming pain. He dropped out of high school after the accident, and didn't socialize with friends and basically did nothing. He was filmed at a drunken party (not good, but not necessarily an indication that he's blithely going on with life) and now he looks like a 30 year old shipwreck victim.
The cop who first found him drunk with the naked 14 year old girl in his truck tried to set him straight, tried to give him a warning. He was too youthful to heed it, and look at where he is now.
I'm absolutely certain he'd give a LOT to take back what he's done. I think if he could take back that night he'd give almost anything.
I have hopes for him that are similar to his roadside victims families - that he can reclaim something of his life, and find a purpose in warning others not to make the same horrible, horrible mistake.
His mugshot looks terrified , not so much miserable imho. He's got no one to hold his hand and ' fix this' now. He knows the gig is up and he's scared of what comes next.
He could have just stayed clean and sober and gotten some help for his obvious addiction and he would not be there today. Maybe, finally , he will be clear headed enough for a few days to comprehend what he's done.
Oh man, he looks like he could hang out @ the Wildlife Refuge in Oregon with the Y'all Qaeda crowd :hilarious:
I do have some empathy for him. I think he didn't stand much of a chance with the parents he had. But if having a crappy upbringing excused behaviors, we wouldn't have much need for prisons. He is a ' kid' still in a lot of ways and because of his being an alcholic for so many of his years, he's probably very , very immature. Couple that with never needing or having to make responsible choices, he's literally probably functioning as a 10 or 12 yr old maturity wise. I think we can empathize with the child who had little chance in the matter while still holding the adult he is today accountable for his behaviors. He was old enough to say ' No MOM, I don't want to flee to Mexico......or No FRIEND , I don't want to play beer pong " The mistakes of the 16 yr old are not his only mistakes to date. Prior to the video surfacing, I naively assumed that EC was somewhere minding his own business, with his head down, staying sober, going to AA meetings and being regretful and trying to find a way to make a life for himself. He had that choice.
I thought she sold her house?
Hmmm, you may just be right. If so, rut-roh.
Just saw a brief blurb from Sheriff Anderson on nbcdfw 4pm news. Ethan's safety seems to be the primary concern. As I understand it juvenile detention has co-mingling of inmates whereas in adult jail they can segregate prisoners. Can you imagine Ethan being housed in juvie with kids who resent the heck out of anyone suffering affluenza? I also heard that there is another hearing for Ethan on 2/14 although I'm not at all clear what that hearing is about. The one on the 14th is in addition to the one being held on 2/19 to determine if he will be declared as adult status.
Thank you...that is interesting that hebstill is under j-court, but because they have no real place to isolate him, he had to go to adult jail. I really wonder what was going on in in j-hold. I bet the other kids were not nice. JMO
And miserable doesn't necessarily equal repentant. He's only feeling sorry for himself. Bet he could use a good drink about now!I hope he is miserable. He should be!! He has destroyed so many lives!! Why should he NOT be miserable?????
The problem is that the night he killed four people was not the first time he had been caught drinking and driving. He had been caught drinking and driving before that with a half naked girl in the passenger seat and according to the officer who caught him "cautioned on the perils of drinking and driving."
He even mouthed off as the police questioned him. He said he had taken pre-law classes and knew what police could and couldn't do to him.
He left with two citations and his mother, Tonya, who was called to the scene.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ethan-couch-family-history-legal-problems-article-1.2514777
That was four months before he killed all those people and all the affluenza nonsense started.
I don't feel sorry for him at all. He deserves worse, IMO.
Maybe I'll think about pitying him when he's actually punished for something that he does wrong and he expresses a shred of remorse for the lives he's ruined beyond his own.
I'm starting to wonder if it was Ethan himself who begged to be taken out of juvenile and the judge said ok.
It seemed to happen very suddenly. All of the articles that I read say that the adult jail and Sheriff's were only given minutes notice that Ethan was on his way on route being transferred....
Maybe he told his attorneys how miserable he was in juvie with everyone after him and they told him that if he transfers to adult prison they would isolate him and he could be alone.
If he was being tormented in juvie, being able to be all alone in a cell by himself in adult jail may have sounded like a great option to him.
I'm also wondering now if he has regretted his decision to leave the Mexican immigration detention center.
He has got at least one last chance to make his life right regardless of the outcome of if his sentence gets transferred to adult probation or not.
He is free to go and be released from jail after he turns 19 soon, and that is a guarantee at this point. It's only a matter of if he will be transferred to adult probation or not from there.
He is VERY lucky knowing he still at least has one more chance either way.