A former Nicu -nurse in a hospital in Virginia who has been accused of abusing seven premature babies was released out of custody last week.
Erin Strotman, 26, was arrested in January after the authorities had assessed a security video that reportedly showed that she would have broken the thigh of a five -month -old boy in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Nicu) by Henrico Doctors' Hospital in Richmond .
Strotman, who obtained her nursing diploma in 2019, worked in the Nicu of the hospital where four babies were injured in the summer of 2023.
Even after the hospital had set cameras to check employees, three babies still had 'inexplicable fractures' at the end of November and December 2024.
Strotman is now confronted with two crime counts of malicious injury and child abuse in connection with the abuse of one baby, although the authorities still investigate the other six cases of damage in which it is suspected.
Initially, Strotman was held without a bond, so the sudden Ub-bend decision of the judge to allow her out of prison with a bond of $ 25,000, the families of newborns who came out of the hospital with broken bones.
“I think we share the same feeling of anger,” Dominique Hackey, the father of a baby who went through the hospital in 2023, told ABC 7. “This is something we were prepared for, but we clearly did not expect. '
'We absolutely do not feel that Richmond is safer her on the street … Now she is on the street who is celebrating with her family when she has done something so despicently. I don't understand. I don't understand, “Hackey added.
Erin Strotman, 26, was released this week on a bond of $ 25,000. She used to be a Nicu nurse in Henrico Doctors' Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, and was accused of abusing a baby
Noah Hackey was one of the seven babies who were inexplicable injuries in the hospital where Strotman worked
Depicted: an X -ray of the break on Noah's leg that was provided by his father Dominique Hacckey
Sources say that her long -term friend Brandon Gunn has tried to take the nurse remotely. Go as far as removing all traces from her from his social media after her arrest
Dominique and Tori Hacckey had twins, Noah and Micah, in August 2023. Women's X -rays showed that Noah was the one who had broken his tibia.
The judge said that Strotman does not seem to be an escape risk or a threat to himself.
The court also sealed the evaluation of the mental health care of Strotman, as well as explosive SMS messages that she sent to her friend and friends.
Dailymail.com reported about the bizarre messages she sent to Brandon, her long -term boyfriend, only one day before her arrest on January 2.
She complained to him that it had been the 'worst new year ever' and said that her 'head hurt' and that she would need Xanax.
Legal reports show that she has in fact prescribed Alprazolam and Sertraline, the generic names for Xanax and Zoloft respectively. These drugs are used to treat anxiety disorders.
“My therapist office is closed and I am five seconds to send myself in a crisis.”
Strotman apologized to her boyfriend and said: 'I am really sorry that I let us start with 2025,' adding ', I am depressed today. Just want to die a bit. '
Sources say that her long -term boyfriend has tried to 'disturb' Strotman, even so far that she removes all the traces of her from his social media shortly after her arrest.
Days before her arrest in January, she complained to her boyfriend in January that it had been the 'worst new year ever' and said her 'head hurt' so that she would need 'Xanax'
The lyrics with Strotman's boyfriend, whose contact my hole was in one on her phone, ended with Strotman and said he was coming into her face and tried to talk to him – referring to the breakdown of their relationship
For the worrying conversation she had with her boyfriend, Strotman raged against her friends about suspended from her work in 2023.
The reason for her suspension was that four babies she had access to the Nicu of the hospital were found with inexplicable injuries between 5 August and 18 September of that year.
She texted a friend: 'I feel that I have done cocaine again. And I don't have that. I am like Jilted (sic) and I have no idea why.
'I look at my eyes and my students are dishes. I recently diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and I think if I feel so that I am literally manic. '
She sent another message to a friend and said that she “had risen around my house like a psycho” and repeated: “I feel psycho.”
'I feel that I want to start S *** for no reason. It literally takes everything in me not to start with S ***, “she added.
A police report obtained by DailyMail.com also revealed the horrible details of how Strotman is said to have broken the legs of one of the babies in her care.
Strotman took the boy she was accused of abuse – only identified as yh – through the legs and then exerted pressure on them, wrote Detective Megan Lynch.
Strotman (depicted in her graduation in 2019 with her family) is confronted with a maximum of 20 years in prison for the malignant injury levy and 10 years for the indictment of child abuse
'Madam. Strotman was observed that it put her weight on the legs of YH 'added lynch.
'Madam. Strotman was observed and then both legs and she pushed back to where YH's feet were on his head.
“Yh seemed to cry and in need,” wrote the detective, and noted that the boy's left leg normally moved, but not on the right. '
Sources with knowledge of the Strotman hospital worked at DailyMail.com told DailyMail.com She was 'racist' and initially only focused on black babies.
But her lawyer told DailyMail.com that there was no truth in the allegations of employees that she had deliberately focused black children.
The hospital announced on Christmas Eve, days before Strotman was arrested that it would not allow any extra babies in our Nicu at the moment 'after three babies were found with the fractures at the end of November and December.
Officials confirmed that the injuries that were discovered last year were 'similar to an incident with four babies in the summer of 2023', with the police of Henrico County revising 'dozens of videos' from the unity.
Strotman is confronted with a maximum of 20 years in prison for the malignant injury levy and 10 years for the indictment for child abuse – a possible total punishment of 30 years behind bars if a judge chooses to make them run simultaneously.
While she gets outside on Bond, she has to stay at the house of the house of her parents' house. She cannot be close to children or vulnerable adults and is forbidden to provide healthcare services.
And after her comments about cocaine, Strotman was also instructed not to use illegal drugs for which she does not have a prescription.
