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...favor ever since she dialed 911 in February and said to the dispatcher, "Help. There's a baby. He's barely breathing." Shortly after the infant was taken to the hospital, police arrived at the home of Deborah and Sunil Eappen in Newton, Mass. Officers later said that the au pair told them she may have been "a little rough" with the baby, tossed him on a bed, and "dropped" him on some towels on the bathroom floor. In testimony, she denied making the statements. Woodward was arrested the following day and, shortly after the baby's life-support system...
...time mother, becoming an unwitting defendant in the murder of her own baby. The public saw her and her husband Sunil as rich doctors selfishly pursuing their careers to the detriment of their children. Worse, they were said to be cheap. Didn't they know that Woodward was an au pair and not a nanny? Au pairs are young women brought over to the U.S. under a cultural-exchange program and then expected to work as full-time child minders with little supervision. They cost $125 a week, in contrast to about $400 for a trained nanny, but can stay...
...comparison to the O.J. Simpson trial made by The Boston Globe is revealing. Like the O.J. murder trial--with its dimensions concerning race, sex and violence in a country discomforted by any blending of these three--the dangerous au pair and the endangered children case has hit a never in our national psyche. The Woodward case is every parent's nightmare realized. Two working parents left their infant alone with a stranger, and that stranger abused and ultimately killed their child. If the Religious Right ever needs a poster-baby for its family values arguments, it doesn't have...
COLLINGSWOOD, NJ: The nannies are mad as hell, and they?re not going to take it any more. Infuriated by the media?s interchangeable use of ?nanny? and ?au pair? during the Louise Woodward murder trial, the International Nannies Association has launched a campaign to highlight the difference between...
...Says INA president Mary O?Connor: ?A nanny is a qualified child-care professional, but parents hiring an au pair are hiring an exchange student, of sorts. We don?t believe that an 18-year-old from another country is equipped to do full-time child care...