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CAMBRIDGE: Shock waves continue to reverberate through the American legal system one day after Judge Hiller Zobel's surprise decision to free a British au pair convicted by a jury of murder. Aghast, prosecution attorneys swore vengeance for baby Matthew Eappen. Others were uneasy at the way Zobel had imposed his will over the jury?s. "We are a system that believes in juries," said TIME National Correspondent and former civil rights lawyer Adam Cohen. "When a judge steps in, you have...
...fact both Eappens were still in debt from medical school. Their house was modest by Newton standards. And Deborah Eappen worked only three days a week, coming home at lunchtime to breast-feed her baby when she could, otherwise preparing her milk for Woodward to bottle-feed him. "Everyone has child care in Newton," says Ellen Ishkanian, editor of the local News Tribune, who is sympathetic to Deborah Eappen. "This cuts to the quick. People have to assign some blame" and be able to exclude themselves from the guilt. "If she were a perfect mother, then it could happen...
...victim's statement, Sunil Eappen was willing to say that while "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." Deborah Eappen chose not to address Woodward in court. She had already hinted at a deep rancor. Two days earlier, speaking to Bryant Gumbel on CBS's Public Eye, she recalled how Woodward had "once told me she didn't want to have children," and added, "Part of me really hopes she doesn't have that joy in her life...
Remember the horror movie The Hand that Rocks the Cradle? Most mothers do. A real-life sequel played out in Massachusetts last week, when a mild-mannered British au pair was convicted of murdering Matthew Eappen, an eight-month-old left in her care. As it turns out, there was another woman in the docket: the Working Mother. A banner outside the courthouse read DON'T BLAME THE NANNY, BLAME THE MOTHER. And observers of the trial who wrote, called talk radio and clogged the Internet did indeed blame the mother, ophthalmologist Deborah Eappen. Eappen became the embodiment of yuppie...
...display was society's massive ambivalence toward mothers who work (little was said about father Dr. Sunil Eappen). In truth, Eappen was hardly striving to become chief of surgery and mother of the year at the same time. To the contrary, she saw patients only three days a week and came home for lunch most days. To find day care, she went to E.F. Au Pair, one of only eight agencies licensed by the U.S. government to bring au pairs to this country. Surely most mothers could picture themselves hiring Woodward, and feeling lucky to get her. In an interview...