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 she claimed she was saying that she "placed the baby on the bed". In American English, "popped" suggests violence. Her defense lawyers argued to the jury that the word "" does not have the same meaning as in American English. However, in addition to "popping" him on the bed, the police maintained that she also said that she 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.