Word: sunil
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...case had swung dramatically in and out of Woodward's 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...
...America, though, as the case proceeded through court, it was Deborah Eappen who was popularly demonized, stereotyped as the "do-it-all, want-it-all" workingwoman and part-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...
...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...
...problems of Diana and Charles were exacerbated by the media. Let young William live in peace. SUNIL SHIBAD Mahim, India...