On Louise’s conviction
It’s the correct verdict. It’s a bittersweet moment. I don’t know if you can be pleased with anything that has to do with your son being dead.
On worries about child care
[Y]ou do whatever you can to find out about someone . . . this person has supposedly gone through a screening process with the au pair agency . . . If someone is taking care of your kid, maybe they won’t be doing the best job, but . . . they should never throw your kid up against the wall. I think most of us would have that expectation.
On the defense
[I]t was frightening that you could buy this kind of defense and that they could truly create a story [and] pay people to say the appropriate things to fit into that story and . . . lie, which is really what Louise did. She got up there and lied.
On whether he feels guilty
As a parent you feel like one of the most basic things you can [do] for your kids is to protect them . . . [E]ven if someone can say, ““This wasn’t your fault, you couldn’t do anything to prevent this,’’ it doesn’t matter. If it happened it was your responsibility.
