The “affluenza” teen has finally been detained. After a long manhunt Ethan Anthony Couch was caught in the Mexican resort city of Puerto Vallarta. Couch and his mother fled there while Ethan was still under his probation period. The ten-year probation that he was sentenced to after a fatal accident.

The crash occurred on the evening of Saturday June 15, 2013; Couch (according to surveillance video) had stolen two cases of beer from a Walmart store. An hour after the theft, while driving his father’s truck at 70 mph (in a 40 mph designated zone) on the rural, two-lane Burleson-Rhetta road, the tragic accident occurred. Breanna Mitchell’s utility vehicle had just stalled alongside the road where she waited for help. The help that showed up was Hollie Boyles and Boyles’ daughter Shelby. A passing youth minister, Brian Jennings, stopped to lend a hand as well. Couch’s truck swerved off the road and into Mitchell’s vehicle as well as Jennings’s parked car. Then like a domino effect, Jennings car hit an oncoming Volkswagen; finally, Couch’s truck flipped and hit a tree. Mitchell, Jennings, and Hollie and Shelby Boyles were killed instantly. Couch and his passengers, seven teens, none of which were wearing seat belt, survived. Other survivors included the two children present in Jennings’s car and the two people present in the Volkswagen.

Equaling a maximum of twenty years’ imprisonment, Couch was charged with four counts of intoxication manslaughter and two counts of intoxication assault. Couch, after being tested, had a 0.24 alcohol blood count (three times the legal limit for adult drivers in Texas), and Couch also tested positive for Valium. After being charged, the defense hired a professional psychologist who pleaded that Ethan Anthony Couch was a product of “affluenza.” Affluenza is a theory hinting that one doesn’t understand the consequences of their actions because of their “financial privilege.” So basically Couch is trying to plead that because of his family’s wealth and being a highly privileged individual, he can’t comprehend the wrong he has done, so he shouldn’t have to face the consequences. After the psychologist’s plea, Couch’s new sentence was to begin treatment at the North Texas State Hospital in the mental-health facility. Many people believe that Couch got off too easily. He should pay the price for the lives he took. Do you think the new sentence is fair, or should he serve the twenty or more years in prison?