Word: eappen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
First, a quick review of the Woodward-au pair issue: a number of months ago, an eight-month-old baby boy, Matthew Eappen, died after his brain was compressed by a blood clot. Soon thereafter, Matthew's au pair, Louise Woodward, was charged with second-degree murder for purportedly beating Matthew so severely that his skull fractured, leading to the blood clot that caused his death. Last Thursday, Woodward, who was hired as Matthew's au pair through an international au pair program under the United States Information Agency that pays the au pairs room, board and stipend in America...
...Certainly Woodward, who tearfully maintained her innocence before the judge, would agree. But Deborah Eappen, the baby's mother, prefaced the sentencing with an emotional (and rather gratuitous) assertion that the British teen "didn't seem like a monster, or a child abuser or a murderer." To which her husband Sunil added: "I think that Louise has done a brutal thing ... I truly hope that she may someday find the peace of God in her life again...
...Matthew McCue, family friend of and spokesperson for Deborah and Sunil Eappen, on the perception that the public and the media have sided with British au pair Louise Woodward because the Eappens are doctors in prosperous Newton, Mass. Woodward, 19, is currently on trial in Cambridge for the murder of the Eappens' 8-month-old son, Matthew...