Word: murderes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keep actively ignorant about this whole nanny--excuse me, au pair--thing and it has become impossible. People across at least two continents are obsessed with the case of Louise Woodward, the 19-year-old au pair from Elton, England who was convicted last Thursday of second-degree murder in the death of the baby she was hired to watch...
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...
...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...
...Jeffrey's relatives were in the balcony for the House's decision. But why should we equate justice with revenge? Juries are fallible. This fact is evident nowhere more than in a Cambridge jury's controversial decision last week to convict British au pair Louise Woodward of second-degree murder. The electric chair is final; its current seals jury convictions forever...
...accusing the Curley family of looking for revenge, the staff is making assumptions it cannot be sure are true. The family may be trying to insure--in the only way possible--that Jeffrey's killers will never escape or be freed and then rape and murder another child...