A twisted nurse accused of breaking the legs of
seven newborn babies in her care has been branded a 'racist' who targeted black children, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.
Erin Strotman has been charged with malicious wounding and felony child abuse over the incidents at Henrico Doctors' Hospital in Richmond,
Virginia.
The 26-year-old has been accused of initially injuring only black babies by staff in the hospital, with sources saying she 'switched her focus' when she returned to the hospital in late 2024.
This was after she and three others were suspended with pay from the neo-natal intensive care unit in 2023 when four babies were found to have 'unexplainable fractures'.
One told DailyMail.com: '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.
'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.'
The hospital announced on
Christmas Eve last year that it would not be 'admitting any additional babies into our NICU at this time' after three babies were found with the fractures in late November and December.
Sources told DailyMail.com that four nurses were initially suspended with full pay for almost a year during the investigation.
But they were all allowed to return to work after CPS was unable to prove who was targeting the babies.
The hospital later installed 'angel cameras' which allowed constant monitoring of the premature babies. Staff claimed that is how Strotman was caught.
Officials confirmed that the injuries were 'similar to an incident involving four babies in the summer of 2023', with Henrico County Police reviewing 'dozens of videos' from inside the unit.
Detectives are re-examining the 2023 and 2024 cases as part of the broader investigation.
Staff at the hospital are horrified that Strotman was allowed back to work, one nurse telling DailyMail.com: '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,' the nurse, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added.
'But why would you let them come back and harm even more babies? They shouldn't have allowed her to come back.
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