and the basis for the involuntary manslaughter charge. another example would be a parent giving a child keys to the car when he is drunk. none of us should be surprised when something awful happens, maybe a pedestrian is charged. and nobody would balk at the parent being charged in that circumstance. this is analogous. i have heard of civil cases involving liability for parents for example, at underaged parties where kids are ink doctoring and as you described, a scenario where someone drives. is there a precedent for criminal prosecutions resulting in i believe the sentence for the parents, if they were found guilty is it is a 15-year felony, involuntary manslaughter. 15-year fln on each count. theoretically 60 years for each parent if convicted on all four counts. putting aside what their final sentence may be. we should save that conversation for another day.
who avoided prison for a drunken driving accident by claiming he suffered from affluenza. he was sentenced to rehab. an arrest warrant is out for couch after he didn t check in with his probation officer. reporter: look closely at this video. that young man with the blond hair may be ethan couch. if it is he could be in big trouble. that s because couch is on probation an isn t supposed to be ink doctoring alcohol. at 16, couch drove in a drunken haze, crashed and killed four people. do we need ambulances? we flipped and oh, god. reporter: someone posed the beer pong clip on twitter and the county d.a. got wind of it. they went to talk to couch about it but he disappeared.