I genuinely do not understand how anyone could want to hurt a child. Children, babies, and animals are all such innocent creatures. To want to inflict pain on them just doesn't seem natural to me. Unfortunately, not everyone seems to share this belief as video footage shows a nurse harming newborns. This Virginia nurse was allegedly caught on camera breaking a newborn's leg and apparently, it is not her first incident.
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Nurse Caught On Camera Breaking Newborn's Leg
Erin Strotman is making headlines for the horrifying alleged act of harming newborn babies in the NICU. The Daily Mail reports that "The nurse from Midlothian, Virginia, was caught on video breaking the thigh bone of one the five-month-old boys in the neonatal intensive care unit of Henrico Doctor's Hospital in Richmond."
Yes, you read that correctly. A nurse, who is entrusted to care for the babies, was caught purposefully breaking the child's thighbone. What kind of world are we living in? In addition to the broken thigh bone, the poor baby also had a fractured right tibia and several broken ribs.
Detective Megan Lynch shared some of the harrowing details captured in the video. She stated:
"Strotman took the boy by the legs and then applied pressure to them. Ms. Stotman was observed to be placing her weight down on the legs of Y.H. (how the baby is being identified)."
Then the detective continues with even more disturbing details.
"Ms. Strotman was observed then taking both legs and pushing them backwards to where Y.H.'s feet were at his head. Y.H. looked to be crying and in distress."
In Serious Trouble
While this is the first time the Virginia nurse was caught on camera breaking a newborn's leg, it does not appear to be her first offense. Daily Mail reports, "Strotman has been charged with malicious wounding and felony child abuse after being accused of harming seven newborn babies in her care at the hospital."
Although she has only been charged in relation to one child so far, a judge refused her bail and police are looking into other accounts of child harm they believe were caused by her. Earlier in the year, Strotman and three other colleagues were suspended from their jobs after four baby boys received unexplained leg fractures.
However, after investigators could not determine who was responsible for the attacks, the nurses were allowed to return to work. Another nurse at the facility shared her outrage over this. "Virginia is a right-to-work state," she shared. " So you don't have to have a reason to fire someone."
She continued, "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."
Many people agree with this agitated nurse. One silver lining during the nurse's suspension was that the hospital installed "angel cameras." Those were the very cameras that caught the nurse as she was breaking the newborn's leg.
Suspicious From The Start
An inside source at the hospital told the outlet, "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."
Similarly, other co-workers of the Virginia nurse commented on how they thought it was weird that she was assigned to the specialist unit on the first place. Many of the other nurses claimed that Strotman was "weird" and "always in the background." Not necessarily someone who you would expect to be working with babies.
Furthermore, another nurse points out how unlikely these leg fractures are to occur, unless manually forced. She explained that shoulder and clavicle fractures are quite common as babies come out of the birth canal. However, "legs never happen."
She continued, "It would have to be a whole lot of coincidences for that fracture to be the same way it was in all those babies."
The hospital is currently not admitting any additional babies into its NICU at this time, honestly I don't blame them. Furthermore, if I had a child in that hospital I wouldn't let it out of my sight for one second.
