The Affluenza Mom Complained About Jail Conditions
@DeborahDiane (40847)
Laguna Woods, California
January 9, 2016 12:56am CST
Have you been following the case of the teenager from Texas, known as the Affluenza Teen, who drove drunk, killed four people and seriously injured two others? He got off with probation because his lawyer convinced a jury that his affluent parents had not taught him right from wrong. He never had any consequences for his actions, no matter what he did.
Then, when he broke his probation by appearing to get drunk again at a party, his mother took him to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico to prevent him from serving just FOUR MONTHS in a juvenile detention center.
Now, they have both been caught and the son in being held in a Mexican detention center. He will probably be there for several months. The mom has been put in jail in Houston.
This morning, at a hearing in Houston, the sheriff said that the mom complained to him about her accommodations in the jail.
He told reporters that he told her she was in jail, not in a resort!
I guess the Affluenza Teen has an Affluenza mom who thinks she should not have to suffer any consequences of her behavior, either.
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@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
10 Jan 16
What?? He got off because he didn't know right from wrong? That is absolutely ridiculous - whether he did or not doesn't alter the fact that he killed 4 people, and should have received a severe sentence.
As for his mother - let her rot in jail.
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@DeborahDiane (40847)
• Laguna Woods, California
10 Jan 16
You are sooo right! The U.S. government has been slow to extradite him from Mexico. I think that someone up there figures that a few months in a Mexican detention center might do him some good ... not that anyone thinks it will change him, unfortunately.
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@Elizaby (6902)
• Pensacola, Florida
11 Jan 16
@DeborahDiane He will probably wished that he stay and took the four months after being locked up in a Mexican jail
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@DeborahDiane (40847)
• Laguna Woods, California
11 Jan 16
@Elizaby - I agree that will will probably end up wishing he had served his time in juvenile detention and, I hope, his mother may soon wish she had let him. If she had, she would not be in jail right now.
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@LadyDuck (502565)
• Italy
10 Jan 16
@DeborahDiane If she can get out of jail, this is not justice. I would like to see if a poor woman (no matter the color of the skin) would come out or if she would get the maximum of 10 years.
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@DeborahDiane (40847)
• Laguna Woods, California
10 Jan 16
Yes, the mother is even worse than her son. She is old enough to know better, but she continues to behave the same way. She could get 2 to 10 years in jail if she is convicted of helping him flee. However, lawyers on TV say it isn't an open and shut case. Hard to believe, but she could get off.
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@DeborahDiane (40847)
• Laguna Woods, California
11 Jan 16
@LadyDuck - You are so right that this story would have been entirely different if the woman (and her son) had been poor.
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@DeborahDiane (40847)
• Laguna Woods, California
10 Jan 16
I agree completely! They are both spoiled brats.
@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
10 Jan 16
i'm thinkin' they ought to send her back down to mexico 'n let'er stew in one'f their fine facilities fer a few months. that's jest the only 'nice' thingy i've to say'n the matter...
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
10 Jan 16
@DeborahDiane unfortunately, money talks...
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@DeborahDiane (40847)
• Laguna Woods, California
11 Jan 16
@crazyhorseladycx - Yes, you are right. Money seems to talk, and talk pretty loudly.
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@DeborahDiane (40847)
• Laguna Woods, California
10 Jan 16
I agree! I can't believe they were in such a hurry to get her back to the U.S. I'm sure the prisons in Mexico are even less comfortable than the ones here ... at least after I saw the prison where they kept "El Chapo."
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@DeborahDiane (40847)
• Laguna Woods, California
11 Jan 16
I'm glad they are both in jail, too. What that mom has encouraged is almost beyond belief!
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@DeborahDiane (40847)
• Laguna Woods, California
11 Jan 16
@just4him - I agree that his mother has not done him any favors. Unless he makes a radical change in his life, he could end up spending a lot more of his life in jail.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Jan 16
@DeborahDiane She didn't do him any favors, that's for sure.
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@JudyEv (382240)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Jan 16
@DeborahDiane I feel there isn't any hope for people this arrogant. It would take a life-changing experience to teach him any other way to act.
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@DeborahDiane (40847)
• Laguna Woods, California
11 Jan 16
@JudyEv - I agree. I hope she gets at least a couple of years in jail, but I am skeptical that will happen.
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@ElizabethWallace (12069)
• United States
12 Jan 16
@JudyEv They already had a life changing experience, but learned nothing from it.
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@SIMPLYD (90717)
• Philippines
22 Jan 16
Such an impertinent woman to complain like that . They both deserve to be in jail.
I thought you got much stricter law than here .
Though here the rich prisoners were discovered to have affluent accommodations in prison . So , those prisons were relocated and now languishing in a true jail without nice accommodations whatsoever .
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@SIMPLYD (90717)
• Philippines
1 Apr 16
@DeborahDiane Yes, i know that this has been for months already . 
That is nice that they have been very low key .
That is nice that they have been very low key . @DeborahDiane (40847)
• Laguna Woods, California
1 Apr 16
I agree that both the affluenza mother and her son deserve to be in jail. It is interesting. I wrote this article a couple of months ago (I just noticed your comment.) They have been very low-key and out of the news since all this happened!
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
12 Jan 16
It is such a sad situation, isn't it?
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@DeborahDiane (40847)
• Laguna Woods, California
14 Jan 16
It amazes me the values that some people have ... or the lack of values, I should say.
@bluesa (15022)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
11 Jan 16
@DeborahDiane , I think that him ending up in a Mexican detention center is going to teach him right from wrong very quickly, he is going to wonder why he did not just take those 4 months back home, and it is shocking that he caused people to lose their lives and only got 4 months in the first place. His Mom sounds awful, spoilt and clueless, a pity that money will probably get her off scot free.
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@bluesa (15022)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
11 Jan 16
@DeborahDiane , in this case, they do sound like they are the type that will probably self-destruct.
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@DeborahDiane (40847)
• Laguna Woods, California
14 Jan 16
@bluesa - Yes, they will probably self-destruct sooner or later.
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@DeborahDiane (40847)
• Laguna Woods, California
11 Jan 16
Yes, it is a pity that money will probably get her off scott free. I imagine that the son will probably end up back in jail for some other crime, the way he is going. I hope they both change their ways, but I have observed that many people change very little ... until they simply self-destruct.
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@DeborahDiane (40847)
• Laguna Woods, California
1 Apr 16
Wow! There really is an entitlement mentality, even among people in prison. I have actually visited a prison in Mexico, as well as toured a U.S. jail. I can understand why the affluenza teen eventually asked to come back to the U.S. While most of our jails and prisons and over-crowded, our prisons are luxurious in comparison to the un-airconditioned, crude conditions that exist in many Mexican prisons.
@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
17 Jan 16
What a miserable parent this woman must have been and still is.
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@DeborahDiane (40847)
• Laguna Woods, California
18 Jan 16
I agree. She is a miserable parent and apparently has been the entire time she was raising her son ... much to his detriment.
@DeborahDiane (40847)
• Laguna Woods, California
11 Jan 16
@DianneN - Ha Ha! Yes, a couple of nut jobs!
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@DeborahDiane (40847)
• Laguna Woods, California
11 Jan 16
I agree! The reality that this mother and son are going to experience is going to be pretty awful, I think. Even if the son gets off with a short time in juvenile detention for this crime, the way he is headed makes me think that he will spend a lot more time in jail in the future.
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@DeborahDiane (40847)
• Laguna Woods, California
14 Jan 16
@ElizabethWallace - I agree. Mandatory psychiatric care would be an excellent idea for both of them ... permanently. They are both a danger to themselves and others.
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@ElizabethWallace (12069)
• United States
11 Jan 16
@DeborahDiane What they both need is mandatory psychiatric care.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
11 Jan 16
which reminds me of a famous woman who is imprisoned here in my country... she is receiving VIP treatment; her cell is airconed, with gas range, and everything a rich person may have.
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@DeborahDiane (40847)
• Laguna Woods, California
11 Jan 16
Oh, that is awful ... but something I am afraid could happen in nearly every country. Some of our "white collar" criminals in the U.S. have been sent to prisons that are sometimes referred to as "country clubs." Outrageous.
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@DeborahDiane (40847)
• Laguna Woods, California
10 Jan 16
I agree! It just baffles me that this could have happened in such a "law and order" state like Texas. I would have been surprised for it to happen here in a liberal state like California ... let alone the state that executes more people than all the states put together. What was this jury thinking??
@Tampa_girl7 (54715)
• United States
11 Jan 16
I have heard a little about this bizarre story.
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@Elizaby (6902)
• Pensacola, Florida
11 Jan 16
The mom did her son no service taking him to Mexico where he will remain in jail while fighting extradiction which could very well be more than the four months he would have served in Juvinile detention which is far worse, Jail is jail and there are (or should) be no special favors just because one is rich
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@DeborahDiane (40847)
• Laguna Woods, California
10 Jan 16
I agree that it is very sad. I can't believe a jury ever fell for it. I'm glad in a way that this case turned out the way it did. Surely no other jury will be so gullible in the future. At least I hope not!
