Parents from au pair trial expecting baby

Sunil and Deborah Eappen

February 7, 1998
Web posted at: 10:36 p.m. EST (0336 GMT)

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Sunil and Deborah Eappen, the parents at the center of last year's controversial au pair trial, are expecting a new baby.

Deborah Eappen is due to give birth in May, her mother-in-law Achamma Eappen confirmed for CNN in a telephone interview Saturday.

The Eappens have one other child, Brendan, who will turn 4 this year. Their second son, Matthew, died from a head injury on February 9, 1997, when he was 8 months old.

Louise Woodward, a 19-year-old British au pair who worked for the Eappens, was charged with killing Matthew. A Massachusetts jury found Woodward guilty October 30 of second-degree murder. Woodward was initially sentenced, as required by state law, to life in prison, but on November 10 Judge Hiller Zobel reduced her conviction to manslaughter and sentenced her to 279 days in jail, or time served, and ordered Woodward freed.

Woodward has surrendered her passport to the court and been ordered to stay in the United States until the appeals process is complete.

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