Au Pair Says She Was a Scapegoat

Speaking at length for the first time since her return home, Louise Woodward insisted that U.S. authorities made her a scapegoat in the death of a baby in her care. In October, Woodward, 20, was convicted in Massachusetts of manslaughter in the killing of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen, but she was released after serving 279 days in a U.S. prison. In an interview with the BBC, the former au pair said: “Somebody had to pay.” Prosecutors say she shook the child to death. The baby’s family was not immediately available for comment. But the attorney representing them in a civil suit against Woodward, Fredric Ellis, said she “already told her story and was found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt by a jury, a judge and seven justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Court.”