Former Hospital Worker Arrested After Several NICU Babies Suffer ‘Unexplainable Fractures’

Police have arrested a 26-year-old woman after several babies at a Virginia hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) suffered “unexplainable fractures.”

Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman, of Chesterfield County, is facing charges of malicious wounding and felony child abuse “in connection to an incident that occurred in November 2024,” Henrico County Police said in a Friday news release, obtained by People.

On Christmas Eve, Henrico Doctors’ Hospital announced it would not be “admitting any additional babies into our NICU at this time” after three babies were found with fractures in November and December 2023. The injuries were “similar to an incident involving four babies in the summer of 2023,” the hospital release said.

HCA Virginia confirmed to People that Strotman is a former employee of the hospital.

“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 statement read. (Read more from “Former Hospital Worker Arrested After Several NICU Babies Suffer ‘Unexplainable Fractures’” HERE)