A judge has found a Virginia nurse guilty of felony child abuse for fracturing the bones of several infants when she worked in a neonatal intensive care unit at a Richmond hospital.
Erin Strotman, 27, pleaded no contest on Jan. 15 to 20 charges filed against her, including malicious wounding and child abuse, for several incidents between 2022 and 2024 in which she injured nine babies while working at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital.
When hospital administrators launched an internal investigation in 2024, they said that three babies at that time were found with “unexplainable fractures.”
A criminal complaint stated that surveillance video showed Strotman abusing a 5-month-old infant in November 2024. The footage reportedly showed the former nurse taking the infant by his legs and pushing the child’s legs to the point his feet reached his head…