Former hospital worker arrested after 3 premature babies suffer fractures at Virginia intensive care unit
A former hospital worker was arrested in connection with a late 2024 incident that left three babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Virginia's Henrico Doctors’ Hospital with "unexplainable fractures," according to officials.
A former hospital worker was arrested in connection with a late 2024 incident that left three babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Virginia's Henrico Doctors’ Hospital with "unexplainable fractures," according to officials.
Henrico Police identified 26-year-old Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman, of Chesterfield County, as a suspect during an investigation into the incident, per a news release published Friday.
Strotman was arrested and is facing malicious wounding and felony child abuse charges in connection with the incident, which the hospital said happened in late November, possibly December.
A spokesperson for HCA Virginia confirmed that Strotman is a former employee of Henrico Doctors’ Hospital. The spokesperson did not clarify what Strotman's role was.
"In late November/December, we discovered that three babies in our Henrico Doctors’ Hospital NICU had unexplainable fractures, similar to an incident involving four babies in the summer of 2023," the hospital said in a statement posted on their website Dec. 24. "We initiated a thorough internal investigation, informed the families and notified the proper authorities and regulatory agencies and worked collaboratively with them on their investigations."
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