The former au pair, who had been living in the United States pending the appeal decision, returned home to England. She defaulted in the wrongful death suit brought against her by the Eappens, citing the inability to pay the legal costs required for a civil trial but maintaining her innocence. Full text of Massachusetts Supreme Court decision Full text of Judge Hiller Zobel's decision. Full text of prosecution's petition to Supreme Judicial Court.
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Debate the case in the Court TV Message Boards. The infant died from a fractured skull days later. The defense said the infant may have died from a previous undetected head injury that worsened gradually. If convicted of second degree murder, Woodward faces life in prison with the possibility of parole. A teen-age British nanny was accused of first degree murder for allegedly shaking to death the infant she was babysitting.