{"id":5665,"date":"2013-12-17T02:10:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T18:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5665"},"modified":"2013-12-17T02:10:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T18:10:22","slug":"judge-says-drunk-teen-is-too-rich-to-pay-the-price-for-killing-four-people-takepart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/17\/judge-says-drunk-teen-is-too-rich-to-pay-the-price-for-killing-four-people-takepart\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Says Drunk Teen Is Too Rich to Pay the Price for Killing Four People &#124; TakePart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The comfort made him do it.<br \/>\nThat was the successful defense strategy used by a Texas teenager sentenced Tuesday to 10 years of probation after he killed four people in a June drunk-driving accident.<br \/>\nAccording to news reports, a psychologist hired by 16-year-old Ethan Couch said the teenager was a victim of \u201caffluenza,\u201d a condition caused by the sort of absurdly permissive home life that comes with being wealthy. The lenient sentence\u2014prosecutors had sought up to 20 years in prison\u2014prompted anger by the victims\u2019 families and others.<br \/>\nThese things tend to happen in free-market capitalist societies, said Oliver James, a British psychologist and author of Affluenza: How to Be Successful and Stay Sane. Wealth skews perceptions of right and wrong, he said.<br \/>\n\u201cAmerica teaches people that greed is good,\u201d James said. \u201cThere are very few parents who don\u2019t imbue their children with some values, but what those values are is another story. Bernie Madoff\u2019s children were undoubtedly given a model that money is king.\u201d<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takepart.com\/article\/2013\/12\/12\/affluenza-disease-makes-rich-people-kill?cmpid=tp-ptnr-upworthy\">Judge Says Drunk Teen Is Too Rich to Pay the Price for Killing Four People | TakePart<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comfort made him do it. That was the successful defense strategy used by a Texas teenager sentenced Tuesday to 10 years of probation after he killed four people in a June drunk-driving accident. According to news reports, a psychologist hired by 16-year-old Ethan Couch said the teenager was a victim of \u201caffluenza,\u201d a condition &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/17\/judge-says-drunk-teen-is-too-rich-to-pay-the-price-for-killing-four-people-takepart\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Judge Says Drunk Teen Is Too Rich to Pay the Price for Killing Four People &#124; TakePart&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}