State pays for Affluenza Teen's rehab

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

Sad that the victim's families seemed to sell-out instead of seeking retribution. The good news is the taxpayers in Texas are on the hook rather than dragging in the whole country.

The DuPont story is a completely different animal as we all know pedophiles CAN NOT be rehabilitated.

Bottom line is the teen belongs in prison sucking d$@k and the DuPont belongs in the ground sucking dirt.

The criminal portion of the case has been settled; even if all of the victims' families had refused to settle, it wouldn't have meant jail time for the kid. That's done. The only thing in play in a civil case is money.

The one family refusing to settle is the family of the Good Samaritan who was helping out passengers in a car that broke down, I think. The other victims were all passengers of the kid. I am NOT excusing him in any way, but most of them were drunk as well. I suspect the families didn't want to have all that dragged out during court proceedings, as the question from the very good defense lawyers the kid's parents could afford would then likely be, well, why were the kids in the car in the first place? They stood a real chance of not getting anything, and the one kid is going to have huge medical bills for the rest of his life.

In the case of the Good Samaritan, it'll be a much harder case for the defense. I hope his family gets a gajillion dollars, though the rich are great at hiding their money in places where it's not subject to garnishment, even by the law, so in the end, yeah, no justice will be served here. Once again, hereditary wealthy win and everyone else loses.