Word: woodwards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stark detail the hopelessness of the situation: her son, who was on life support, was brain dead. On Feb. 9, she said, "we made the most painful decision in our lives. We had to let Matty go, be free of this life's pain." And then it was Louise Woodward's turn to speak. The night before, a jury of nine women and three men had found her guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Matthew Eappen. She too repeated her story of the past nine months--but in just four sentences. Almost breathlessly, she said...
...jury's decision had confounded legal experts and, it seems, most of public opinion, which had been formed by televised images of a cherubic, well-groomed Woodward calmly testifying from the stand. Her defense team, featuring Barry Scheck, who had been part of O.J. Simpson's "dream team," had been so confident of its case that it had turned down a last-minute offer by the prosecution to include manslaughter as an option to present to the jury. Instead, with Woodward's assent, the defense persuaded the judge that the verdict should be all or nothing--murder or acquittal...
...easy, but it is not all that convincing. Cases of nanny abuse are much more rare than cases of parents abusing their own children. But it is easier to project our own parenting insecurities on to a stranger. And Louise Woodward was that stranger--literally a foreigner, a paid nanny living with someone else's family...
...trial made by The Boston Globe is revealing. Like the O.J. murder trial--with its dimensions concerning race, sex and violence in a country discomforted by any blending of these three--the dangerous au pair and the endangered children case has hit a never in our national psyche. The Woodward case is every parent's nightmare realized. Two working parents left their infant alone with a stranger, and that stranger abused and ultimately killed their child. If the Religious Right ever needs a poster-baby for its family values arguments, it doesn't have to look very...
COLLINGSWOOD, NJ: The nannies are mad as hell, and they?re not going to take it any more. Infuriated by the media?s interchangeable use of ?nanny? and ?au pair? during the Louise Woodward murder trial, the International Nannies Association has launched a campaign to highlight the difference between...