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...parents didn't do it, who did?" With those words, Louise Woodward came out swinging in her battle with the Eappen family over the death of Baby Matthew. In what she promises will be her only interview, Woodward used the BBC's 'Panorama' program to cast herself as the Eappen's scapegoat: "There was the whole feeling that somebody had to pay and that somebody had to be me," she said. She accused the police officers who questioned her of misconstruing her testimony as a confession...
...never really go home. Louise Woodward touched down on English soil Thursday for the first time in 15 months of au pair-hood, trial and notoriety. "I've really missed the old place a bit," Louise said at Manchester airport, with what one reporter described as "a slight U.S. twang." But it was not the same England she left, nor the same one that supported her to the hilt during last November's trial. The tabloids are beginning to turn on Louise: "First Class Child Killer," blared the front page of Thursday's London Mirror. It was a tale with...
...Louise Woodward's long American nightmare is over. The Massachusetts Supreme Court all but put the former au pair on a plane back to England Tuesday by backing Judge Hiller Zobel's decision to commute her sentence to manslaughter and let her go with time served. But it was a squeaker -- four judges said yes, three said no, ensuring that the death of baby Matthew Eappen will remain forever shrouded in controversy...
...Still, the au pair will depart with a stinging dissent ringing in her ears: "As a felon convicted of a grave act of child abuse, Woodward should not in the future be entrusted with the care of the children of others," wrote the naysaying Justice Greaney. There was, he added, a need to prevent her from selling her story. A fine sentiment -- however, that will now be for the British press to decide...
...issue here: Can the British au pair return to England with a sentence of time served? Or should Judge Hiller Zobel's decision to impose a manslaughter verdict be overturned, and Woodward sent back to jail for the murder of baby Matthew Eappen? To solve that question, the justices have to crack a whole host of conundrums: Did the prosecution prejudice the trial by withholding details about Matthew's skull fracture, for example? Don't hold your breath for the answer -- the court has 130 days to make up its mind...