In 2023, as Henrico Doctors’ investigated the abuse of four infants, Erin Strotman was put on leave. Weeks after the hospital allowed her to return to work, three more newborns suffered injuries.
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The nurse charged with abusing a newborn baby at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital was put on leave by the hospital in 2023 as it investigated four infants who suffered unexplained fractures.
Erin Strotman was one of two employees who treated all four children in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU, which cares for infants born prematurely or with complications.
Eventually, Henrico County’s Child Protective Services unit determined abuse occurred. But investigators were unable to ascertain who caused the fractures, and they closed the case.
In 2024, Henrico Doctors’ allowed Strotman to return to work, a prosecutor said. Weeks later, three additional babies suffered unexplained broken bones, giving the hospital seven victims in total. Earlier this month, police arrested Strotman and charged her with felony malicious wounding and child abuse in one baby’s injuries.
