Virginia cac nurse arrested for breaking bones of black newborn babies in nicu
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I hope some orange is the new black type chicks break her neck in prison fuckin' demon. The mothers of all those babies should be allowed to jump her
…and the fathers. On top of that, I hope ancestors of the babies are whooping that nurses ancestors for spiritual and karmic retribution.
Sickness
I saw it on IG last night and was just so tired and angry that I went to sleep. 
Medical Apartheid is real.
Medical Apartheid is real.
This is one of those times I wish I believed in karma.
What loving, omnipotent, omniscient, and omni-present god would allow this? Proof he/she doesn't exist.
People are rightly outraged by this. Now imagine all the things that are done more subtlety that are hard to prove. This includes improper care for the mother during the pregnancy which leads to unneeded issues with the child down the line.
Even though I normally only hear about Black woman being nurses, we clearly need more Black people in the medical field at all levels.
I can't recall the exact country in Africa, but a woman basically explained that students are prepared for a role from a young age in school and pretty much it made it harder to compete with students if you attempted to switch careers. Bottom line it kind of made sense to an extent and we already do this except it's mainly for sports. Kids are groomed to be athletes from the time they can hold a ball. Yet, you don't usually get professional skills until maybe highschool and college.
Maybe I'm unaware and it does exist but what is the AAU for kids who want to be medical professionals?
Even though I normally only hear about Black woman being nurses, we clearly need more Black people in the medical field at all levels.
I can't recall the exact country in Africa, but a woman basically explained that students are prepared for a role from a young age in school and pretty much it made it harder to compete with students if you attempted to switch careers. Bottom line it kind of made sense to an extent and we already do this except it's mainly for sports. Kids are groomed to be athletes from the time they can hold a ball. Yet, you don't usually get professional skills until maybe highschool and college.
Maybe I'm unaware and it does exist but what is the AAU for kids who want to be medical professionals?
From those Devils it isn't.
I understand how evil they can be. I'm saying that I can't imagine having enough hate in me to do something like that myself.
Yall do not understand how much malpractice goes on surrounding pregnant black women pre post and during
As black fathers trust me please
It's is important to go with your woman to ALL those appointments procedures and check ups
It does matter and your presence and participation makes a difference
As black fathers trust me please
It's is important to go with your woman to ALL those appointments procedures and check ups
It does matter and your presence and participation makes a difference
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Newborn babies at a Virginia hospital have been suffering mysterious injuries. A nurse now faces abuse charges
By Faith Karimi, CNN
7 minute read
Updated 1:31 PM EST, Wed January 8, 2025
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Dominique Hackey shows an image of his newborn son Noah on his phone. The infant wears a brace on his broken left leg.
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Dominique Hackey was waiting to cradle his preemie son for the first time when a nurse delivered devastating news: The newborn’s left leg was fractured. In an instant, Hackey’s world shattered.
His wife, Tori Hackey, had just been discharged after giving birth to fraternal twins, Micah and Noah. The boys, born in September 2023 at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, are the couple’s first children.
Because they were born at 28 weeks and weighed only about two and three pounds, respectively, the twins had remained in the neonatal intensive care unit — with Micah barely hanging on, Hackey said. And now, seven days after birth, the healthier twin’s leg was bruised and broken, he said.
“I was confused and heartbroken,” he said. “I’m a first-time parent. I have no background in the medical field. You’re telling me my baby has a fracture? How did it happen? They had been scanned before, and they’d have said something if anything had popped up (at that time).”
Out of fear he would be blamed for the injury, the 33-year-old Hackey said he turned down the offer to hold his son that day.
More than a year later, Hackey and other parents may now be closer to understanding what happened at the hospital, which has reported a series of mysterious injuries to newborns over the past several years.
Police last week arrested a former nurse at the hospital, Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman, and charged her with malicious wounding and felony child abuse in a November 2024 incident involving another newborn.
Investigators are now looking into a total of seven potential abuse cases at the hospital: three in 2024 and four in 2023, including Noah’s, said Shannon Taylor, the commonwealth’s attorney for Henrico County.
In a statement last week, Henrico Doctors’ Hospital said it was “shocked and saddened” by the nurse’s arrest and is assisting Henrico police in their investigation.
“At this time, we are not admitting new patients to our NICU,” the hospital added. “For babies needing NICU care, we will assess them, stabilize, and facilitate a transfer to an appropriate facility, once available.”
Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman has been charged with malicious wounding and felony child abuse.
Henrico County Sheriff's Office
At Strotman’s arraignment Friday, Hackey broke down.
“I could not stop the tears from flowing. I have a lot of guilt. A lot of regret. And a lot of anger that the hospital let it get this far, that we had all these parents whose children were affected,” he told CNN. “My son was one of her first victims. My son’s first emotion was pain. And as a father, that breaks me.”
It’s unclear whether Strotman, 26, issued a plea at her arraignment. Her attorney, Scott Cardani, declined to comment when reached by CNN.
Police are reviewing hundreds of hours of hospital surveillance footage
Henrico County police investigators said they are scouring hundreds of hours of surveillance footage from the hospital’s NICU to determine what happened to the seven newborns.“The investigation is ongoing and there could be more babies identified,” Taylor told CNN.
The incident added to an already stressful pregnancy and delivery after two previous miscarriages, Hackey said. The couple chose to have their babies at the hospital because they believed it had the resources to save their children, he said.
At one point, he said, they were not sure Micah would survive due to his health issues, including low amniotic fluid before he was born.
But Noah appeared to be thriving, and the family was hopeful.
Not long after Hackey left the hospital, he called his mother, who’s a director of nursing at a different hospital. She was stunned, he said. The hospital had suggested that Noah’s left tibia – the shinbone between the knee and the ankle – may have been fractured while a nurse was administering an injection, he said.
His mother sat the couple down and showed them how nurses administer shots to preemies to highlight the unlikelihood of broken bones. Hackey’s mother then called Child Protection Services on their behalf and reported the case, he said.
The hospital launched an investigation but closed it weeks later after concluding the fracture was likely the result of the injection, he says. In January 2024, Henrico County police reached out to Hackey’s family and notified them that the case was closed, he said.
Henrico Doctors' Hospital in Richmond says for now it's stopped admitting babies to its NICU.
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A police spokesperson declined to comment, saying they cannot provide specifics due to the ongoing investigation.
“We understand the feelings and emotions this investigation has generated for our community members and beyond,” said Eric D. English, chief of Henrico police, in a statement. “We kindly request patience as our detectives work to investigate every piece of evidence in connection to these cases.”
After Strotman’s arrest the hospital issued a statement Friday describing her as “a former employee” and saying it will continue to assist law enforcement in their ongoing investigation.
“We are both shocked and saddened by this development in the investigation and are focused on continuing to care for our patients and providing support to our colleagues who have been deeply and personally impacted,” the hospital said.
“For more than 30 years, the NICU at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital has provided necessary and life-saving care to babies in central Virginia and we remain focused on ensuring the availability of that care in our community.”
The hospital referred all media questions to law enforcement.
The injured infants all are boys
For months, Hackney said, there was silence.In September this year, Child Protective Services sent him a letter informing him its investigation revealed that Noah was the victim of abuse at the hospital.
“A review of the facts shows … a preponderance of the evidence that child abuse/neglect occurred,” said the letter, which he shared with CNN.
Last month, Hackey said he was surprised to see a news article about prematurely born babies injured at the Richmond hospital. One newborn suffered numerous injuries on different months.
“To say that we’re blessed that our son only sustained one fracture is a crazy sentence,” he said.
Hackey said the victims included another boy who was a twin, like Noah.
In a statement Tuesday, Henrico police refuted theories shared on social media that all the infants targeted were Black.
“The preliminary investigation indicates this information is not factual,” police said. Hackey agrees.
“The children were different races, and there were twins and singletons,” he said. “There was no real methodology there that we can put together. The only thing they have in common is that they are all boys.”
Noah Hackey when he was an infant. He and his twin brother are now healthy 16-month-olds.
Courtesy Dominique Hackey
Parents recall a nurse who barely stood out
The Hackey twins are now 16 months old and hitting their developmental milestones. Their father said Noah is rambunctious while Micah is more mellow, introverted and observant. He glances at Noah’s antics between watching YouTube educator Ms. Rachel and munching on peanut butter puffs, his father said.“Noah is certainly walking, climbing. We’re going to be in trouble when he learns how to jump. But he’s an adventurous, curious little boy,” Hackey said. “He had a little physical therapy once he got out of the hospital. But other than that, he’s perfect.”
The Hackeys are slowly learning more details about what happened to Noah and the other children.
After speaking with several families whose children were allegedly abused in 2023, Hackey said he’s learned his son was the third of the four victims identified that year. One incident occurred in July, another one in August and two in September, including Noah’s, he said.
The former nurse arrested is not a stranger to the families, Hackey said, adding that he remembers her mostly because of her hairstyle – she wore bangs. He added that he didn’t notice anything unusual about her at the time, and neither did the other families he’s spoken to.
“When I saw her face, I was completely shocked because I don’t really remember having any conversations with her,” he said.
On the day Strotman was arraigned, some of the families of the alleged victims met for the first time at the courthouse, where they shared tears and hugs. Hackey said they’re working on connecting the dots and trying to heal.
“We’ve found that it’s easier to heal together than to try to go through all this individually, especially because there are still a lot of missing pieces and we just kind of have to piece it together ourselves,” he said.
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If found guilty, Strotman faces a maximum of 10 years in prison for the felony child abuse charge and up to 20 years for the malicious wounding charge, said Taylor, the Henrico County’s commonwealth’s attorney.
Strotman has so far been formally charged in just one baby’s case as investigations continue in the other cases.
Hackey said the babies’ parents were told that investigators have found surveillance footage of the November 2024 incident for which Strotman was arrested and are combing through the videos for others.
Strotman is being held without bail. Her next court appearance is scheduled for March 24.
“I want to see her go to prison for the rest of her life. That’s the least she deserves,” Hackey said.
Former Virginia nurse charged with felony child abuse amid probe into NICU babies suffering 'unexplained fractures'
A former Virginia nurse at the Henrico Doctors’ Hospital was charged with malicious wounding and child abuse amid a probe into babies suffering unexplained fractures.
Father of injured newborn speaks out as Virginia nurse faces charges
The father of a Virginia toddler who suffered a mysterious bone fracture as a newborn in a Richmond hospital's neonatal intensive care unit says the victims all shared one common trait, even as a motive remains unclear.
Father of injured newborn speaks out as Virginia nurse faces charges
By Michael RuizUpdated January 7, 2025 4:06pm EST
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Noah has recovered from a mysterious bone fracture that investigators say was caused by child abuse at a Virginia hospital where he was treated in the neonatal intensive care unit. (Courtesy of Dominique Hackey)
The Brief
- A Virginia nurse was arrested for allegedly abusing newborns in a hospital NICU, injuring seven boys.
- The Henrico Doctors' Hospital NICU shut down after multiple "unexplainable fractures" were discovered.
- Police charged the nurse with malicious wounding and child abuse, with six additional cases under investigation.
- The hospital has since enhanced security, including 24-hour surveillance and stricter staff access rules.
What we know
The father of a Virginia toddler who suffered a mysterious bone fracture as a newborn in a Richmond hospital's neonatal intensive care unit says the victims all shared one common trait, even as a motive remains unclear.
They were all boys.
They suffered different injuries, came from diverse families and had nothing else in common that the parents could identify, according to Dominique Hackey, whose young son, Noah, suffered an unexplained fractured tibia in September 2023.
"There were all different injuries, and two boys had multiple injuries," he told Fox News Digital. "So far, in chatting amongst ourselves, we can't find a pattern of why our babies, other than that, they were just boys."
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Virginia nurse arrested after newborns in NICU suffer unexplained injuries
Virginia police have arrested a registered nurse in connection with a twisted attack that left a vulnerable newborn in a hospital's neonatal intensive care unit with an "unexplainable fracture" in November.The Henrico Doctors' Hospital shut down its NICU on Christmas Eve after authorities said they were launching an internal investigation into a series of "unexplainable fractures" of bones in newborn patients – three in the past two months that appeared similar to another four from 2023.
Who is Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman?
Henrico police arrested Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman, a 26-year-old registered nurse, Friday on charges of malicious wounding and child abuse for one of the incidents. Police are investigating six more, including the Hackeys' case and three other reopened cases that were closed without charges last year due to a lack of evidence.While reports have circulated on social media that Strotman allegedly targeted children by race, Hackey knocked down those claims, telling Fox News Digital only two of the victims were Black. Hackey said he has been in touch with all the other victim’s families but one. He is hoping to meet them, too.
The identity of the victim who Strotman has so far been charged with injuring remains sealed by the court due to healthcare and juvenile privacy rules. She is due back in court in March.
Hackey's son, Noah, was one of the 2023 victims, and until last month had been under the impression that his case was an isolated incident. He had been told that officials suspected child abuse fractured his son's tibia, but investigators didn't have enough evidence to bring charges.
When the hospital said it was closing its NICU on Christmas Eve, he said a friend sent him a news article, and he learned that the attack on his son was not the only incident. Then he began speaking out publicly, raising awareness about his experience and the attack on his son, who was born at 28 weeks and six days.
Now 16 months old, Noah Hackey has since recovered from his injury. (Courtesy of Dominique Hackey)
Hackey said he remembers Strotman from the family's NICU stay but had barely interacted with her. He remembers her as "nice" but "insignificant."
"It truly didn't matter whether you were there all day, whether you were not there all day. This person found a way to still hurt our children," he said. "That's the part that keeps me up at night, because the first emotion that my son ever experienced was pain, and that's not supposed to happen. The first emotion is supposed to be joy and laughter, you know, making funny faces at them. And that wasn't the case, unfortunately, for my son and six other boys."
Hackey said he only recently learned that Strotman had been placed on paid leave at some point, evidence that he says shows the hospital did suspect wrongdoing long before police announced her arrest last week. Investigators have largely left him without updates after confirming they believed his son's injuries came from serious child abuse.
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The hospital is cooperating with investigators and has given police hundreds of hours of surveillance video.
"We are both shocked and saddened by this development in the investigation and are focused on continuing to care for our patients and providing support to our colleagues who have been deeply and personally impacted by this investigation," the hospital said in a statement.
Medical records show the injury was inflicted a day earlier than the Hackeys were previously told, he said. At the time of Noah's attack, the hospital had not yet installed surveillance cameras. It has since put in 24-hour video surveillance as well as a means for parents to livestream their newborn's room, and no staff members are permitted to enter without a second clinician for security purposes.
Police said they could not release many additional details about the case due to health care privacy laws. However, they are asking anyone with information that could help them bring more charges to contact detectives at police@henrico.gov, visit P3tips.com or call Crime Stoppers at 804-780-1000.
One of Hackey's twin sons is shown with a supportive brace on his ankle after he suffered a strange injury, which investigators later deemed to have been caused by a hospital worker in a twisted case of child abuse. (Courtesy of Dominique Hackey)
"Finding out that she was put on paid leave in connection with our cases, that the hospital suspected her, that's all new information ... to all of us," he said, referring to his family and the five others he's been in contact with.
Hackey said he retained a lawyer Monday.
Both of the twins are now happy and healthy, he said, and the family is looking to move forward despite the traumatic experience.
"Experiencing two miscarriages and then having twins, that's amazing," he told Fox News Digital. "And having them both here after being told you might lose one of them, the whole pregnancy and then after the pregnancy, it's truly a blessing, truly a blessing. Not many people have the privilege to be parents, and I was blessed two times over, so I'm going to do whatever I can to protect them."
There was a cac male nurse that was killing patients for years at different hospitals before he they finally arrested him. There was a movie or a series made about it on Netflix.
dr death i think it was called
This is one of those cases that I think we shouldn't have to waste tax dollars on.
Just lock her ass in a room with the families of those babies she hurt & turn the cameras off.
Let justice work itself out
Just lock her ass in a room with the families of those babies she hurt & turn the cameras off.
Let justice work itself out
Nah, Dr Death was a physician here in Tennessee.
A good Samaritan, should give her a Taliban special. A trip to a 3 story building. And kick or push that demon. Off the roof.
