A 16-year-old kid in Texas has been spared from the possibility of 20 years behind bars for killing four people in a drunken crash because his attorneys argued that his parents never taught him right from wrong.

Seriously, State District Judge Jean Boyd handed down a sentence of 10 years probation for the kid. According to authorities, the boy's BAC was three-times the legal limit and he was doing 70 mph on a stretch of rural road with a speed limit of 40.


In all, 11 people were injured. Local authorities said the crash scene was the most horrific they've encountered.

A witness for the defense, psychologist Dr. G. Dick Miller, blamed the boy's parents.

Miller testified that Couch was the troubled product of a broken home who got whatever he wanted from his wealthy parents and didn't understand consequences.

Miller called the teen a victim of "affluenza," a rich-kid syndrome that led him to believe money solved everything.

Instead of two decades in prison, the boy will face 10 years of probation and receive treatment at a fancy rehabilitation facility in Southern California. [New York Daily News]