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26-year-old nurse arrested for fracturing Black babies legs in the hospital

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A nurse named Erin Strotman has been accused of deliberately breaking the legs of seven newborn babies under her care, reportedly targeting them because they are Black.

She has been arrested and charged with malicious wounding and felony child abuse for the incidents, which took place at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital in Richmond, Virginia.

Hospital staff initially reported that Strotman injured only two babies, but sources later claimed she “shifted her focus” to harm more infants after returning to work in late 2024.

One source told Dailymail saying: “The majority of the babies were black babies, when she came back when they noticed the pattern, she tried to throw them off by targeting a white baby and a girl baby.

“She wasn’t the strongest in the class, she was literally one of the slowest. People are saying she’s a white supremacist but that’s a bit of a stretch.

“I definitely felt like she was racist, she was deeply southern rooted.

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“I was surprised at what she did, but I’m not surprised that it was her. If anyone was to do something crazy, she would have been at the top of the list.”

according to the hospital, it said that it wont be admitting any babies in the NICU at this time after two babies were found with fractures in the Late November and december.

Sources also confirmed to the Daily Mail that four nurses were suspended with full pay for nearly a year during the investigation.

However, they were allowed to return to work after Child Protective Services (CPS) couldn’t determine who was responsible for injuring the babies.

As the investigation continued, the hospital installed Angel Cameras to monitor the nursing staff — and that’s when Erin Strotman was finally caught in the act.

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Officials revealed that the injuries were “similar to an incident involving four babies during the summer of 2023,” with Henrico County Police reviewing “dozens of videos” from inside the unit.

Detectives are now re-examining both the 2023 and 2024 cases as part of a broader investigation.

Meanwhile, staff at the hospital were reportedly horrified that Erin Strotman was allowed to return to work during the investigation.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, one staff member said:   “Virginia is a right to work state, so you don’t have to have a reason to fire someone.

“If you even suspected these people were in the midst of harming babies you can terminate them.

“But why would you let them come back and harm even more babies? They shouldn’t have allowed her to come back.

“Shoulders and clavicles, when they’re coming out of the birth canal, break all the time, but legs never happen.

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“It would have to be a whole lot of coincidences for that fracture to be the same way it was in all those babies.

“It would be like trying to snap a pencil. You have to put some force behind it. It’s highly unlikely unless you accidentally drop one of them to snap their lower leg, below the knee, and that’s what was being broken.”

Despite the horrific injuries, reports say that all the babies are doing well and recovering after being transferred to different hospitals for treatment.

Strotman previously worked in the Progressive Nursery Care Unit (PNCU), caring for full-term and general population babies, before moving to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Those familiar with her described her as someone who “always smelled like a farm.” Mothers whose babies were under her care recalled her frequently talking about her rescue animals.

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