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...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...
...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 televised the night before the verdict, Eappen made her own plea for mercy: "What if I was a stay-at-home mom and went to the movies and this happened?" But Eappen is looking for rationality where there is little. Consider this irony...
...Meanwhile, at least one woman didn?t get the news via television or computer screen. Facing Judge Zobel for sentencing, Louise Woodward learned her fate the old-fashioned way: word of mouth...
CAMBRIDGE: Louise Woodward is free. That was the word from Judge Hiller Zobel, who reduced the British au pair's sentence to 279 days, or time served, after downgrading her crime Monday to involuntary manslaughter. Zobel said he wanted to bring a "compassionate conclusion" to the case...
...English and polarized America. "It is a little troubling," confessed TIME National Correspondent (and former civil rights lawyer) Adam Cohen. "We are a system that believes in juries. When a judge steps in, you have to ask why." Nevertheless, Zobel ruled earlier, there had been no malice in Woodward's actions ? and therefore her murder conviction was invalid...