Virginia hospital closes neonatal intensive care unit after multiple newborn boys suffer unexplained fractures. Authorities investigate a series of cases, leading to the arrest of a registered nurse.
The father of a Virginia toddler who suffered a mysterious bone fracture as a newborn in a Richmond hospital's neonatal intensive care unit says the victims all shared one common trait, even as a motive remains unclear. They were all boys. They suffered different injuries, came from diverse families and had nothing else in common that the parents could identify, according to Dominique Hackey, whose young son, Noah, suffered an unexplained fractured tibia in September 2023.
'There were all different injuries, and two boys had multiple injuries,' he told Fox News Digital. 'So far, in chatting amongst ourselves, we can't find a pattern of why our babies, other than that, they were just boys.' The Henrico Doctors' Hospital shut down its NICU on Christmas Eve after authorities said they were launching an internal investigation into a series of 'unexplainable fractures' of bones in newborn patients – three in the past two months that appeared similar to another four from 2023. Henrico police arrested Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman, a 26-year-old registered nurse, Friday on charges of malicious wounding and child abuse for one of the incidents. Police are investigating six more, including the Hackeys' case and three other reopened cases that were closed without charges last year due to a lack of evidence. While reports have circulated on social media that Strotman allegedly targeted children by race, Hackey knocked down those claims, telling Fox News Digital only two of the victims were Black. Hackey said he has been in touch with all the other victim’s families but one. He is hoping to meet them, too. The identity of the victim who Strotman has so far been charged with injuring remains sealed by the court due to health care and juvenile privacy rules. She is due back in court in March
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