jeudi 10 novembre 2011

Louise Woodward case

Wikipédia :
The Louise Woodward case concerned a young English au pair convicted, at age 19, of the 1997 involuntary manslaughter of eight-month-old Matthew Eappen while he was in her care in his home in Newton, Massachusetts, in the United States. Woodward was deemed the "most notorious criminal convicted in Massachusetts" by Boston law magazine Exhibit A ten years after the death.
Background
Five days after being admitted to Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, Matthew Eappen fell into a coma, and died on February 9, 1997 from a fractured skull and subdural hematoma. He was also found to have a fractured wrist, an unnoticed and unexplained injury from a month earlier. Dr. Lois E.H. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., an ophthalmologist at the hospital, observed retinal hemorrhages judged characteristic of shaken-baby syndrome.
In a statement to the police, Woodward said that she "popped the baby on the bed". There was a dispute in her case over the use of the word popped: in British English, this phrase means "put" or "placed", and Woodward claimed she was saying that she "placed the baby on the bed". However, in American English, popped suggests violence. Her defense lawyers argued to the jury that the word popped does not have the same meaning as in American English. However, in addition to "popping" Matthew on the bed, Woodward also told the police that she had dropped him on the floor at one point, and that she had been "a little rough" with him. The police officer who interviewed her immediately after the incident adamantly insists that she never used the word popped, but in fact said that she "dropped" the baby on the bed.
Media coverage of the case was intense, nowhere more so than in Britain. Before the trial, the defense tried to move the trial to another city, arguing that a local jury would be too biased to render a fair verdict. The judge disagreed and denied the defense motion.
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un cas de bébé secoué célèbre : Louise Woodward était ce jour-là dans son "jour de colère numéro 1" en l'occurence son jour critique émotionnel E1. elle se trouvait aussi dans un épisode fortement critique avec l'entrée dans les jours critiques physiques P17/P18/P19... (équivalent du jour critique émotionnel, donc effet double) dans sa période pré-anniversaire, (épisode critique semestriel) et à la charnière de ses années critiques physiques P18/P19 : autant d'éléments "pulsions".
le bébé est dans son jour critique intellectuel i26 : jour critique du cerveau et - mais pas assez de données pour connaître l'incidence chez un bébé - un jour qui n'entre pas vraiment en compte dans une situation habituelle de bébé secoué. (on trouve généralement le jour critique physique car ce jour-là est un jour où bébé pleure sans que l'on puisse le faire cesser de pleurer)

4 Février 1997 (28/02/1978)
Sa 1 I(17)
Di 2
Lu 3
Ma 4 P(17) E(1)
Me 5 P(18)
Je 6 P(19)
Ve 7
Sa 8
Di 9

Matthew Spellman Eappen Birth 24 May 1996
4 février 1997 (24/05/1996)
Sa 1 P(1)
Di 2
Lu 3
Ma 4 I(26)
Me 5
Je 6 P(6)
Ve 7 P(7) E(8)

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