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Shortly we expect. you expect her legal situation is worse than her sons? how so? >> the kid is treated in the juvenile system. he would be placed in jail up to his 19th birthday. his mother is an adult and she has an allegation of aiding and abetting and she is looking at ten years in state prison. and what i feel about this case, this kid got all of the breaks with the affluenza defense and after all that violated probation and the mother accused of coddled him all of these years helps him to ...

Probation violation. which hell face when he comes back to the united states. in terms of the mother she has a stand alone issue to deal with. and that is when you are harboring a fugitive, when you are assisting and aiding and abetting getting him to mexico and when you know the authorities are looking for him based upon that violation of probation and you are really doing everything you can to shelter him in have him in mexico. of course it violates a statute in texas and ten year maximum puni...

The pair crossed into mexico through tijuana. sheriff d. anderson says tonya couch will be charged with aiding in the e skach of a fu-- of a fugitive. >> for her to assist him, i felt like was just a natural next occurrence. im not surprised that she helped him. >> reporter: not surprising to those who have seen the couch family up close since the teen was only sentenced to probation for a drunk driving crash that killed four people in 2013. his attorneys argued he suffered from affluenza. the v...

In jail for that long but the mother could be in serious trouble here, yes? >> yes, thats the odd twist here. the mother is looking at two to ten years for aiding and abetting this escape. so its kind of odd that he, you know, killed four people, these poor people and their family, what theyre going through right now, yet the mother who assisted in the escape is looking at a lot of possible time here. >> art roderick for us on this case, gets stranger and stranger by the day. ethan couch and his...

Bars for up to 40 years. thats up to 10 years for each death in the 2013 drunk driving case. ethan counts mother, authorities do plan to charge we are with aiding and abating a felon. she could face anywhere from 2 to 10 years in prison if shes convicted. craig? >> kerry, there in mexico, what else are we learning about the investigation? what also are we learning about how these two were apprehended by authorities? >> craig, lets got first into the investigation and the extradition. its possibl...

Four people. >> reporter: as for his mother, she faces a charge of aiding and abetting a felon. she could spend up to ten years behind bars. >> her entire focus has been on protecting ethan. her entire focus has been on making sure he didnt see any justice done, making sure he was notabilitible. >> reporter: the two-week international man hunt for the pair ended here at this apartment complex in puerto vallarta. this butcher told nbc that ethan couch had come into a shop. he noticed couchs hair ...

Help him to hide his identity, and go and the run to escape there to mexico. what is she facing? >> aiding and abetting, and the e definition of how one aids and abets is someone who commits a criminal crime is broad. you can aid and abet by assisting the person financially or aid and abet by driving the person to and from and by obtaining travel document, and so she is definitely facing a charge of aiding and abetting, and it could be jail time, probation or a fine. this family is very affluent...

Couch, how does he have the right to make a public announcement that he will track couch down and bring him to justice. this is what i call surrogate justice, the system fails, a sheriff takes the law into his own hands to make sure it works this time and one of his comments that was completely out of line was he said this kid hasnt shown any remorse, not even sorry for what he did. how does he know? the entire proceeding was blocked to the public. doesnt know whether couch made any comments in ...

Likely be charged for aiding and abetting if shes the one who is with him and helping him avoid authorities. jenna? jenna: this case really came back into the news because of that beer pong video that was on twitter, gregg. and what it appeared to show. why would that be such a big deal for ethan couch? why would it be motivation to run, potentially? >> well, that, i think, is probably -- and im just guessing here -- the trigger for the vanishing act, because if it is ethan on the videotape, tha...

>> we dont know, really. >> they leave a trail. >> the mother, what kind of consequences does she face? >> in texas, a parent in the juvenile system, a parent can be made part of an order for probation and can have obligations under that order. a parent can be held in contempt. this is an increasing trend weve been seeing, im sure joey has been seeing it, too. in juvenile cases parents are increasingly being held responsible for when their kids violate or when their kids do things wrong. there a...