Agency Won’t Pay Au Pair’s Legal Fees

Louise Woodward’s au pair agency will no longer pay her legal costs, her parents said. Instead, some of the more than $330,000 raised by Woodward’s supporters will be used to fund her appeal, her family said in Boston. Legal fees had been covered by EF Au Pair, the agency that placed the 19-year-old British woman with the family of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen. Woodward was convicted by a jury Oct. 30 of second-degree murder for the baby’s death. A judge reduced the verdict to manslaughter and the sentence from life in prison to the time she had already served--279 days.