{"id":2386502,"date":"2025-01-04T17:55:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T22:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arrest-made-after-hospital-closes-nicu-malicious-wounding-and-felony-child-abuse\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T17:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T22:57:17","slug":"arrest-made-after-hospital-closes-nicu-malicious-wounding-and-felony-child-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arrest-made-after-hospital-closes-nicu-malicious-wounding-and-felony-child-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest Made After Hospital Closes NICU: Malicious Wounding and Felony Child Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farrest-made-after-hospital-closes-nicu-malicious-wounding-and-felony-child-abuse%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2386502&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In\u2064 a troubling case from Virginia, a former hospital worker, Erin Strotman,\u200b has \u2063been \u2062arrested in \u200cconnection with injuries sustained by babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care\u2064 Unit (NICU) at \u200cHenrico Doctors&#8217; Hospital. Strotman, 26, has \u200dbeen charged with malicious wounding \u200cand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-teacher-arrested-for-allegedly-spraying-disinfectant-at-students-who-didnt-wear-masks-properly-faces-felony-child-abuse-charges\/\" title=\"Florida teacher arrested for allegedly spraying disinfectant at students who didn&#039;t wear masks properly, faces felony child abuse charges\">felony child abuse<\/a> related to an incident that occurred on\u200d November 10, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200chospital\u200d has recently halted admissions to its \u200dNICU after\u2062 three\u200d infants were discovered with unexplained fractures. This action followed\u200d a prior incident\u200d in September 2023, where a baby named Noah Hackey was found \u200cwith \u200ca fractured tibia\u2062 while under \u2064the hospital&#8217;s care. Investigations revealed that\u2062 these instances of injury were\u200d linked to staff actions,\u200b leading to an investigation by local law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The police\u200c are currently <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">reviewing multiple video recordings<\/a> from inside the NICU and are revisiting cases from both 2023 and 2024 as part of their\u2063 ongoing inquiry. The hospital released a statement expressing its shock and sadness about \u2063the situation and emphasized its cooperation with law enforcement throughout the investigation. \u2062Strotman had previously been placed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blm-activist-working-at-library-fired-after-allegedly-burning-library-books-by-trump-coulter-now-hes-claiming-racial-discrimination\/\" title=\"BLM Activist Working At Library Fired After Allegedly Burning Library Books By Trump, Coulter. Now He\u2019s Claiming Racial Discrimination.\">paid administrative leave<\/a> prior to her arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Families affected by these incidents have expressed\u200d their\u200c anger and frustration over the injuries\u2064 occurring to their children, emphasizing \u2063the need for accountability and the assurance that such incidents should not happen again.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>A Virginia woman has been arrested after a string of injuries to babies in the neonatal intensive care unit of the hospital where she worked.<\/p>\n<p>Erin Strotman has been charged with malicious wounding and felony child abuse, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.henricosheriff.org\/search\/mobileDetail.aspx?id=000505873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Henrico County Sheriff&rsquo;s Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that the 26-year-old was charged in connection with a November incident, per a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gutfeld-fox-news-wallop-late-night-competition-during-premiere-of-2-new-shows\/\" title=\"Gutfeld and Fox News dominate late-night competition with 2 new shows.\">news release obtained<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/woman-arrested-multiple-babies-suffer-unexplainable-fractures-same-virginia-hospital-8768674\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">People<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Henrico Doctors&rsquo; Hospital said it would not admit babies to its neonatal intensive care unit after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hospital-shuts-nicu-disturbing-discovery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three babies<\/a> were found with fractures.<\/p>\n<p>Police are &ldquo;reviewing dozens of videos from inside the NICU,&rdquo; while detectives are also &ldquo;re-examining the 2023 and 2024 cases as part of this broader investigation,&rdquo; the release from the department said.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>When the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/police-child-abuse-unit-investigates-preteen-boy-brother-seen-living-porch-freezing-cold-make-shocking-find\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hospital<\/a> closed its neonatal intensive care unit, it said that the 2024 injuries were similar to injuries that took place in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2023, Noah Hackey was one of the babies who suffered from a fractured tibia during a stay in the hospital&rsquo;s NICU.<\/p>\n<p>A letter from the local Department of Social Services later told his parents that &ldquo;following a [thorough] CPS investigation this agency has determined the disposition of this report to be founded level 1 for physical abuse of Noah by an employee by the Henrico Doctor&rsquo;s Hospital NICU,&rdquo; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtvr.com\/news\/local-news\/henrico-doctors-investigation-2023-dec-27-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">WTVR-TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The employee was not named at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The new information and reports that more babies were injured led to &ldquo;instant anger, instant tears, because it&rsquo;s not supposed to happen again, it&rsquo;s not supposed to happen in the first place,&rdquo; Noah&rsquo;s father, Dominique, said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Somebody needs to be held accountable for my son, for everybody&rsquo;s kid, somebody needs to be held accountable, it&rsquo;s too many in such a short period of time,&rdquo; Dominique said.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital called the woman arrested a &ldquo;former employee&rdquo; in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcavirginia.com\/locations\/henrico-doctors-hospital\/specialties\/womens-care\/labor-and-delivery#nicu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement on its website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There has been an ongoing investigation into fractures sustained by patients in our NICU, and this morning, the Henrico County Police Department arrested a former employee of the hospital in connection with that investigation,&rdquo; the Friday statement said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have been assisting law enforcement in their ongoing investigation and will continue to do so,&rdquo; the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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,&rdquo; the hospital continued.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are grateful to those colleagues, who have dedicated their professional lives to the care and safety of our patients, as well as to law enforcement and the other agencies who have worked aggressively and tirelessly with us on this investigation,&rdquo; the statement noted.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtvr.com\/news\/local-news\/henrico-doctors-nicu-nurse-arrest-jan-3-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WTVR-TV<\/a>, Strotman was put on paid administrative leave in 2023. The station noted that the day of the crimes for which Strotman was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/paris-hilton-promotes-federal-bill-prevent-child-abuse-vows-use-platform-make-difference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charged<\/a> was Nov. 10, 2024.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Erin Strotman faces charges of malicious wounding and felony child abuse, as reported by the Henrico County Sheriff\u2019s Office. The 26-year-old was charged related to an incident in November, according to a news release from People. Last month, Henrico Doctors\u2019 Hospital announced it would stop admitting babies to its NICU after three infants were discovered with fractures. Police are currently reviewing numerous videos from inside the NICU and re-examining cases from 2023 and 2024 as part of a broader investigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2386503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Strotman.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5175,47921,47922,47920,47919],"class_list":["post-2386502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-arrest","tag-felony-child-abuse","tag-hospital-incident","tag-malicious-wounding","tag-nicu-closure"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Strotman.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2386502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2386506,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386502\/revisions\/2386506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2386503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}