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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...