Word: eappen
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Dates: during 1997-1997
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Along comes this painful and murky Boston murder trial, then, in which the truth of whatever happened on Feb. 4 was known only to the 19-year-old au pair and to eight-month-old Matthew Eappen, who was in her charge, and who is dead. The public thinks it sees injustice in the second-degree murder verdict the jury handed down. But then it thinks it sees injustice in the reversal by Judge Hiller Zobel, when he reduced the verdict to manslaughter and ordered no more jail time for Woodward. Adding to the frustration was the memory...
...decision was not unexpected: To uphold the emergency appeal ? and send Woodward back to jail for killing baby Matthew Eappen ? the prosecution would have had to display a reason why this cannot go through the normal appeals process. Most legal experts couldn?t see one, and the judge seemed to concur. Even in a high profile case such as this, the wheels of justice spin slowly...
...watched the trial of au pair Louise Woodward [NATION, Nov. 10] and came to the same conclusion the jury did: that Woodward killed baby Matthew Eappen. Maybe it was not done intentionally, but don't be fooled by Woodward's appearance or British accent into believing that she is innocent. JOANA K. TAM Burnaby...
...Eappen: I just feel like, how did Louise become the hero and I become the villain? What is the real issue here? It is child abuse and child murder. I strive in a lot of different directions in life, and now suddenly that striving to be good seems to be bad. The only decision I wish I had made differently was [the decision] not to fire Louise. I wish...
...purple spiky hair sleeping down the hall? But we hadn't encountered any real problems, and at that early date we were still confident in the arrangement. Not long after, our au pair odyssey began in earnest. It's no tale of tragedy, like that of Sunil and Deborah Eappen. But it is, I believe, an all too common experience, one that laid bare the flawed nature of au pair programs and underscored the chaotic state of child care...