‘Affluenza’ teen’s mom complains about jail conditions

She was detained in Los Angeles on a no-bail hold for Texas authorities after being deported from Mexico last week. But Salvant said Friday he would not rule on that motion until a previously scheduled hearing Monday.

“During a contested election, to piggyback on a case that has drawn extensive media coverage by doing things that have never been done in recent memory on any other case is very troubling”, she said in the statement.

“While the public may not like what she did, may not agree with what she did, or may have strong feelings against what she did, make no mistake – Tonya did not violate any law of the State of Texas and she is eager to have her day in court”, lawyers Stephanie K. Patten and Steve Gordon said.

Salvant said he would attach “a lot of restrictions” to Tonya Couch’s bail, including wearing a GPS-type device on her ankle.

A sheriff says a “woman with means” whose fugitive teenage son used an “affluenza” defense to avoid prison after killing four people in a drunken-driving wreck has complained about the conditions in her Texas jail cell.

Tonya Couch is accused of helping her son, Ethan Couch, to flee to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico after he missed a juvenile probation hearing for being seen on video at a party with alcohol.

Couch remains behind bars in Mexico, but his mother has been returned to Texas to face charges of hindering the apprehension of a felon.

Sheriff Anderson, who accompanied deputies as they took her from the airport to jail Thursday, described the mother as “cooperative, polite (and) appreciative of the way she’d been treated so far”.

But Salvant didn’t seem moved by Patten’s concerns.

Her lawyers said last week that she has done nothing illegal.

But Couch told the judge her belongings, including her passport, were taken by authorities before her arrival to Texas.

– The mother of the infamous affluenza teen has arrived in North Texas and will spend Thursday night at the Tarrant County Jail.

During Ethan Couch’s trial for the 2013 accident, a psychologist testified that the teen, then 16, suffered from “affluenza”, meaning he had lost the ability to recognize right from wrong after being spoiled by his wealthy family.

“It’s kind of weird but it doesn’t bother me”, he said, while waiting outside the courtroom with his sister and a slew of news reporters.