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However, over the summer, as lawyers working for Woodward did extensive tests on blood and tissue samples from Matthew Eappen and re-examined X rays and photographs of the damaged skull, an alternative hypothesis began to emerge: that the baby had been suffering from a fractured skull for some weeks and a jolt was enough to restart the bleeding that finally killed him. Evidence of a three-week-old fracture of the wrist as well as signs of apparent healing of the skull fracture appeared to support the scenario. The argument seemed so compelling that most observers thought the medical...
...then there was Woodward's testifying in her own defense. Despite tough questioning by prosecuting attorney Gerard Leone Jr., she stuck to her story, denying that she hurt Matthew. With a smile often threatening to break out on her face, she showed no sign of anger or malice that might support a murder charge. "I don't think any of us really believed this was a murder case per se," said Laurence Hardoon, former head of the child-abuse prosecution unit in Middlesex County. "It would have been different if she had dropped him from a three-story building...
...overseas audience in Britain, watching for the very first time a fellow citizen being tried in a legal system that had previously been reserved for such spectacular but very American melodramas as the O.J. Simpson saga. When the guilty verdict was announced, an audience watching in a pub in Woodward's home village of Elton, in northern England, was so taken aback that for a time all that could be heard was the amplified sound of the teenager crying in the courtroom 3,000 miles away. The American justice system came under attack. Alarmed by Leone's masterful summation, some...
...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 expected to work as full-time child minders with little supervision. They cost $125 a week, in contrast to about $400 for a trained nanny...
...fact both Eappens were still in debt from medical school. Their house was modest by Newton standards. And Deborah Eappen worked only three days a week, coming home at lunchtime to breast-feed her baby when she could, otherwise preparing her milk for Woodward to bottle-feed him. "Everyone has child care in Newton," says Ellen Ishkanian, editor of the local News Tribune, who is sympathetic to Deborah Eappen. "This cuts to the quick. People have to assign some blame" and be able to exclude themselves from the guilt. "If she were a perfect mother, then it could happen...