Virginia nurse charged with child abuse after multiple newborn babies at hospital found with broken bones

A Virginia nurse is facing charges of child abuse after being connected with a series of severe injuries to newborn babies at her hospital's neonatal unit.

Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman, 26, of Chesterfield County has been charged with one count of felony child abuse and one count of malicious wounding, according to the Henrico County Police Division.

Strotman's arrest follows an extensive police investigation into three different infant children who suffered “unexplained fractures” at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital in Richmond in November and December. The incident Although the investigation stems from injuries to three Strotman is only charged in connection with one of the incidents. The victim's identity in Strotman's case has not been publicly identified.

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The parents of one of the victims told local CBS 6 that a nurse alerted them to their son's injuries.

“A nurse was standing over Noah swaddling him, looked back and said I noticed his left leg wasn’t moving, it was kind of discolored, I told the doctor on staff, got some x-rays, and we determined he had fracture to his leg, so we are going to splint it for the next two weeks, and then she was like do you want to hold him?” Dominique Hackey said of his son Noah's injuries.

Noah's parents had contacted the outlet after seeing a report of the hospital pausing admissions to its neonatal unit after the incidents from November and December. They said the incidents bore a striking resemblance to what allegedly happened to their child.

Dominique told the outlet that the hospital tried to say that the child's injury was accidental. They contacted the state's Child Protective Services to report the injury.

“That’s what they told us, that it could have been done because an injection was given and maybe they did it too hard and it caused the fracture," he said.

By January of last year the parents said that Henrico Police had reached out to them as part of their investigation.

Strotman was described in a statement issued by the hospital as a "former employee" and said the hospital were assisting with law enforcements investigation and will continue to do so.

The statement added that Strotman had received her nursing license in 2019 and that her certification remains active but she is no longer employed by the hospital.

The Washington Post reported that the investigators are reviewing hundreds of hours of surveillance footage to identify any offending parties in the cases of the other injured infants.

Strotman is being held without bond in Henrico County Regional Jail West, the New York Times reported.

Strotman is being held without bond in Henrico County Regional Jail West, The New York Times reported.