'Affluenza' Teen Arrives Back in Texas After Deportation from Mexico Marice Richter and Anahi Rama - Reuters
go to original January 28, 2016

Raw: 'Affluenza' Teen Ethan Couch Leaves Mexico (Associated Press)

Update: 'Affluenza' Teen Left In Juvenile Detention in Texas, for Now (Reuters)

The American teenager derided for a defence of "affluenza" in the killing four people while driving drunk arrived back in Texas on Thursday, where he faces detention, after being deported from Mexico.

Ethan Couch, 18, was seen with his hands behind his back being escorted by uniformed officers through the Dallas-Fort Worth airport. He was wearing a hooded sweatshirt and had grown a beard.

He fled to Mexico with his mother in December after a video emerged on social media that likely showed him in violation of the probation deal reached in juvenile court that kept him out of prison for causing the deadly crash in 2013.

Couch will be placed in a juvenile detention centre. He faces a detention hearing on either Friday or Monday, at which a judge will determine whether to transfer the case from the juvenile system to the adult system, said a spokeswoman for the Tarrant County District Attorney's office.

Couch was 16 when he was tried as a juvenile. A psychiatrist testifying on his behalf said he had "affluenza," as his family's wealth had left him so spoiled that it impaired his judgment to tell right from wrong.

The affluenza diagnosis, not recognized by the American Psychiatric Association, was widely ridiculed.

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