It’s a well-known fact that crime is running rampant in our streets.
But it turns out it’s also infecting our hospitals.
And this Virginia nurse was just charged with these unspeakable crimes against newborns.
The father of a Virginia baby who suffered a mysterious bone fracture as a newborn in a Richmond hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit recently said the victims of these mysterious events all shared one thing in common.
They were all boys
Dominique Hackey says the one common denominator in the cases is that they were all boys.
They suffered different injuries, came from different family backgrounds, and had nothing else in common that the parents could identify, according to 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 mysterious injuries became so bad that 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.
There have been three in the past two months and another four going back as far as 2023.
Henrico police have arrested Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman, a 26-year-old registered nurse, on charges of malicious wounding and child abuse for one of the incidents.
Police say they are investigating six more, including the Hackeys’ case and three other reopened cases that were closed last year.
Some reports have circulated on social media that Strotman allegedly targeted children by race, but Hackey refuted those claims.
He told Fox News Digital only two of the victims were Black.
Not just an isolated incident
Hackey said he has been in touch with all the other victim’s families but one.
He said he is hoping to meet them soon.
The identity of the victim who Strotman has been charged with injuring remains sealed by the court due to health care and juvenile privacy rules.
Strotman is due back in court in March.
Hackey’s son, Noah, was one of the 2023 victims, and until last month Hackey was under the impression that his case was an isolated incident.
While he had been told that police suspected that child abuse caused the fracture to his son’s tibia, investigators said they didn’t have enough evidence to bring charges.
Then, after the hospital announced it was closing its NICU on Christmas Eve, Hackey said a friend sent him a news article.
It was at that point he realized that the alleged attack on his son was not the only incident.
Hackey then began speaking out publicly, trying to raise awareness about his experience and the violent attack on his son.
Hackey said he remembers nurse Strotman from the family’s NICU stay but that he had barely interacted with her.
He remembers her as “nice” but “insignificant.”
“It truly didn’t matter whether you were there all day, whether you were not there all day. This person found a way to still hurt our children,” he said.
“That’s the part that keeps me up at night, because the first emotion that my son ever experienced was pain, and that’s not supposed to happen. The first emotion is supposed to be joy and laughter, you know, making funny faces at them. And that wasn’t the case, unfortunately, for my son and six other boys.”
Hackey also said he only recently learned that Strotman had been placed on paid leave at some point.
And he says this was evidence that the hospital suspected wrongdoing long before police announced her arrest.
Hackey claimed investigators have left him without updates to the case after initially confirming they believed his son’s injuries came from serious child abuse.
The hospital is cooperating with police and has turned over hundreds of hours of surveillance video.
“We are both shocked and saddened by this development in the investigation and are focused on continuing to care for our patients and providing support to our colleagues who have been deeply and personally impacted by this investigation,” the hospital said in a statement.
Hackey has now retained an attorney saying, “Finding out that she was put on paid leave in connection with our cases, that the hospital suspected her, that’s all new information … to all of us,” he said.
Pro-Life Press will keep you up-to-date on any new developments to this ongoing story.
