VA - Woman arrested after multiple babies suffer fractures at same hospital, Henrico County - 2023, 2024

[SMK777]

Thirteen years ago in Japan there was a similar case, where a woman would approach mothers with babies in public places, say something along the lines of "Oh, what a cute baby!", and then ask if she could hold the child. While the miscreant was doing this, she would covertly break the babies' leg bones with her hand:

Japanese woman jailed for deliberately breaking legs of four babies

A Japanese woman has been jailed after deliberately breaking the legs of four babies because she was jealous of happy mothers.

www.telegraph.co.uk

That is evil beyond comprehension.

 

[tlcya]

I have hesitated to read or comment on this one. It takes a special variety of evil to actively seek out employment where one can have access to and intentionally harm the most vulnerable humans on earth, over and over and over.

What sort of sick twisted individual takes any measure of pleasure from inflicting pain in that manner??

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

Don't forget Texas own Genene Jones. The hospital did their "own" investigation also after babies started having medical crisis her shift came around and Genene was on duty. It became known as the death shift. Their investigation never went anywhere just changed some things and Genene went to work elsewhere.
She'd give them drugs to bleed out/ have heart attacks etc and she was always the hero, saving some of the babies she'd hurt. They think she killed about sixty babies and toddlers in all.
She was given 99 years and was to be released due to overcrowding in the prisons, but another murder charge was brought and she's now serving a life in prison for killing a 11 month old little boy in 1981.

She's down in Gatesville with Darlie Routier

Genene Jones | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

 

[SMK777]

Don't forget Texas own Genene Jones. The hospital did their "own" investigation also after babies started having medical crisis her shift came around and Genene was on duty. It became known as the death shift. Their investigation never went anywhere just changed some things and Genene went to work elsewhere.
She'd give them drugs to bleed out/ have heart attacks etc and she was always the hero, saving some of the babies she'd hurt. They think she killed about sixty babies and toddlers in all.
She was given 99 years and was to be released due to overcrowding in the prisons, but another murder charge was brought and she's now serving a life in prison for killing a 11 month old little boy in 1981.

She's down in Gatesville with Darlie Routier

Genene Jones | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

Awful. I'm glad she wound up finally permanently behind bars.

I remember years ago a true crime movie on Lifetime about a nurse starting off working at a woman doctor's new pediatric practice who did similar "heroic" stuff after causing the infants to go into cardiac arrest. Truly evil, and then she progressed to hospital work. I wonder if it was the same story?
ETA: I just looked it up, and it was indeed based on the true crime story of Genene Jones, and starred Veronica Hamel and Susan Ruttun. The movie was called Deadly Medicine and aired on Lifetime television in 1991.

Deadly Medicine (TV Movie 1991) ⭐ 5.9 | Drama, Thriller

1h 33m

m.imdb.com

 

[Tower]

Bbm.
Almost as if the hospital is saying a procedure is at fault, and maybe not the suspect ??
This makes zero sense.
What procedure or policy could possibly cause broken bones ?
Omo.

Based on the area of this fracture, it could be starting an IV. I worked in NICU for 7 years and no nurses were breaking bones when starting IVs! But if she were incompetent and trained inadequately, it could have been accidental?

Honestly, I don’t really believe it’s accidental.

Jmo

 

[sunspun]

plus wasn't it multiple times with different babies?

 

[LadyL]

I think the hospital tried to keep it quiet and cover it up. About a month ago the family in the article I posted went to the media, WTVR.
The hospital was supposed to add video cameras after the last incident.
Moo

they said the police are combing through 'dozens of videos from the NICU' so were they supposed to add more cameras or ?

Woman Arrested After Multiple Babies Suffer 'Unexplainable Fractures' at Same Virginia Hospital

A woman has been arrested after multiple babies suffered 'unexplainable fractures' in 2023 and 2024 at the same Virginia hospital.

people.com

 

[Tower]

plus wasn't it multiple times with different babies?

A NICU nurse would be starting many hundreds of IVs. If she were using terrible and aggressive technique, she may be able to cause fractures in some percentage of those babies.

To be clear, I think she would know something was very wrong and her nursing training would necessitate that she get help.

There was one nurse in our NICU that everyone would call to start a line on the TINIEST babies. She would get it right away, every time. Keep in mind, those little blood vessels were the width of the finest hair. I could not understand how any of them could start an IV on those preemies.

This nurse would absolutely have known she was harming them, but it’s a little different than just walking up and fracturing a preemie’s bones. I’m proposing it was possibly due to incompetence and poor technique. But she is still liable and negligent.

Jmo

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

Awful. I'm glad she wound up finally permanently behind bars.

I remember years ago a true crime movie on Lifetime about a nurse starting off working at a woman doctor's new pediatric practice who did similar "heroic" stuff after causing the infants to go into cardiac arrest. Truly evil, and then she progressed to hospital work. I wonder if it was the same story?
ETA: I just looked it up, and it was indeed based on the true crime story of Genene Jones, and starred Veronica Hamel and Susan Ruttun. The movie was called Deadly Medicine and aired on Lifetime television in 1991.

Deadly Medicine (TV Movie 1991) ⭐ 5.9 | Drama, Thriller

1h 33m

m.imdb.com

Yes that was Genene Jones. That was the second time that I had heard about Succinylcholine. She worked in the hospitals then went to work for Dr. Karen Holland and continued killing babies. Dr. Holland is still in Kerrville.

 

[TIGER0822]

They knew since Sunmer of 2023, and did nothing. The circumstances of the recent fractures are similar to incidents involving four different babies at the hospital in the summer of 2023, according to a statement from HCA, which runs Henrico Doctors’ Hospital. Awful hospital.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

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 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.

Nurse charged with abuse after multiple newborn babies found with broken bones

Police are still investigating similar injuries to several other infants in the same hospital although no other arrests have been made as of yet

www.themirror.com

https://henrico.gov/assets/240103.-Update-2.-Investigation.-Henrico-Doctors-Hospital-NICU.pdf

 

[imstilla.grandma]

New details have emerged in the case of Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman, who is accused of intentionally abusing at least 7 premature babies for years during her time as a NICU nurse. A coworker told DailyMail.com, Strotman initially appeared to target Black babies. "The majority of the babies were Black babies," the source said. "When she came back, when they noticed the pattern, she tried to throw them off by targeting a White baby and a girl baby."

Police Say Nurse Who Broke Preemie Babies' Bones Did Not Target Infants by Race

Nurse arrested for harming NICU babies in VA hospital. Multiple infants suffered unexplained fractures. New safety measures implemented as the investigation continues.

nurse.org

 

[Shamrock1]

“In a statement Tuesday, Henrico police refuted theories shared on social media that all the infants targeted were Black.

‘The preliminary investigation indicates this information is not factual,’ police said. Hackey agrees.

‘The children were different races, and there were twins and singletons,’ he said. “There was no real methodology there that we can put together. The only thing they have in common is that they are all boys.’”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/us/virginia-nurse-erin-strotman-arrest-cec/index.html

 

[Simply Southern]

Court documents reveal nurse Erin Strotman's abuse caught on camera

Shocking court documents alleged NICU nurse Erin Strotman, 26, was caught on the hospital's secret 'angel cameras' applying pressure to break a premature baby's thigh bone.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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The nurse from Midlothian, Virginia, was caught on video breaking the thigh bone of one five-month-old boy in the neonatal intensive care unit of Henrico Doctors' Hospital in Richmond.

The child was also found to have a fractured right tibia and several broken ribs, the report noted.
Strotman, 26, took the boy – identified only as Y.H. – by the legs and then applied pressure to them, wrote Detective Megan Lynch.

'Ms. Strotman was observed to be placing her weight down on the legs of Y.H.' added Lynch.

'Ms. Strotman was observed then taking both legs and pushing them backwards to where Y.H.'s feet were at his head.

'Y.H. looked to be crying and in distress,' the detective wrote, noting that the boy's left leg moved normally but the right did not..

 

[ChatteringBirds]

IMO, if true, there is no rehabilitating her. Something is too wrong in her brain to fix.

And how did the hospital not realize this baby had the other broken bones? Could a baby actually have a broken tibia and multiple broken ribs but seem okay?

 

[Tower]

IMO, if true, there is no rehabilitating her. Something is too wrong in her brain to fix.

And how did the hospital not realize this baby had the other broken bones? Could a baby actually have a broken tibia and multiple broken ribs but seem okay?

It is my opinion there would be signs of injury: heat, less movement, baby fussy, etc. Babies in the NICU can be in some level of distress even without fractures, but I think another nurse coming on shift would think the babies were acting more fussy and distressed. Often NICU nurses are assigned to the same babies every shift (in the 3 hospitals I am familiar with), so the babies have a total of only 5 or 6 different nurses caring for them 24 hours per day. The nurses get to know the babies, but they may not be able to pinpoint the reason why they’re distressed. Jmo

 

[sunspun]

Do broken bones in babies not cause noticeable swelling and discoloration like (I thought) they always do in older children and adults?

 

[I am not Sherlock H.]

Court documents reveal nurse Erin Strotman's abuse caught on camera

Shocking court documents alleged NICU nurse Erin Strotman, 26, was caught on the hospital's secret 'angel cameras' applying pressure to break a premature baby's thigh bone.

www.dailymail.co.uk

.....


The nurse from Midlothian, Virginia, was caught on video breaking the thigh bone of one five-month-old boy in the neonatal intensive care unit of Henrico Doctors' Hospital in Richmond.

The child was also found to have a fractured right tibia and several broken ribs, the report noted.
Strotman, 26, took the boy – identified only as Y.H. – by the legs and then applied pressure to them, wrote Detective Megan Lynch.

'Ms. Strotman was observed to be placing her weight down on the legs of Y.H.' added Lynch.

'Ms. Strotman was observed then taking both legs and pushing them backwards to where Y.H.'s feet were at his head.

'Y.H. looked to be crying and in distress,' the detective wrote, noting that the boy's left leg moved normally but the right did not..

Thank you @Simply Southern …. for posting the January 8, 2024 Daily Mail online article by Emma James entitled ‘Shocking court documents reveal how Virginia nightmare nurse Erin Strotman was caught on camera breaking a premature baby's leg’.

This is so disturbing. Such despicable and reprehensible behavior, treatment, and conduct by the arrested suspect. With helpless and defenseless infants! SMH

Of particular note from that article:

“The video was made on November 10 after Strotman had returned to work after she and three colleagues had been suspended on full pay for almost a year after four boys received unexplained leg fractures.”

- So IIUC there were prior questions on Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman’s treatment of patients? In a period near a year prior?

Is there no video or other evidence of earlier periods - of patients in her care? Why not? What are the results of the ‘prior questions’ investigation?

IANAL…. If the infants were all male, can this also be treated as a ‘hate’ crime under VA state, or possibly federal law? How about the simple fact they were infants? Does that qualify under those statutes?

And I have a solution for the accused suspect. Wait, sorry, I cannot type it here. MOO

 

[sunspun]

she and three colleagues had been suspended on full pay for almost a year after four boys received unexplained leg fractures.

Almost a year-long paid vacay x 4!
whee!
smh

 

[LadyL]

Court documents reveal nurse Erin Strotman's abuse caught on camera

Shocking court documents alleged NICU nurse Erin Strotman, 26, was caught on the hospital's secret 'angel cameras' applying pressure to break a premature baby's thigh bone.

www.dailymail.co.uk

.....


The nurse from Midlothian, Virginia, was caught on video breaking the thigh bone of one five-month-old boy in the neonatal intensive care unit of Henrico Doctors' Hospital in Richmond.

The child was also found to have a fractured right tibia and several broken ribs, the report noted.
Strotman, 26, took the boy – identified only as Y.H. – by the legs and then applied pressure to them, wrote Detective Megan Lynch.

'Ms. Strotman was observed to be placing her weight down on the legs of Y.H.' added Lynch.

'Ms. Strotman was observed then taking both legs and pushing them backwards to where Y.H.'s feet were at his head.

'Y.H. looked to be crying and in distress,' the detective wrote, noting that the boy's left leg moved normally but the right did not..

I'm feeling sick. I hate her. Those poor babies.