"ANGEL OF PAIN" 7 NEWBORNS SUFFER EXCRUCIATING BROKEN BONES IN HOSPITAL
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Henrico County Police Detective Megan Lynch responded to Henrico Doctors' Hospital regarding a 5-month-old male in the NICU found with a fractured left femur.
Further examination revealed the child also had a fractured right tibia and multiple rib fractures. Investigators noted similarities between these injuries and those suffered by four males in the NICU during the previous summer.
Following the earlier unexplained injuries, the hospital installed surveillance cameras throughout the NICU. Detective Lynch reviewed the surveillance footage and reported her findings. On November 10, Nurse Erin Strotman was recorded in the room with the baby identified as "Y.H." in hospital records. The footage showed Strotman grabbing Y.H. by the legs and applying pressure, placing her weight on them, and pushing the baby's legs backward until his feet reached his head. The video shows Y.H. crying and appearing to be in distress.
Seven potential abuse cases are now under investigation, and police say more may be uncovered. Henrico County investigators are reviewing hundreds of hours of surveillance footage to piece together the events. Reports indicate that at least three affected families attended Strotman's court appearance. One father, speaking publicly, stated that another couple reported their child had suffered 12 fractures.
Strotman has been formally charged in one baby's case, with the investigation ongoing. Her public defender stated that she has not yet entered a plea. Strotman remains in custody without bail, and her next court appearance is set for March 24
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Dominique Hackey - Father of infant injured in PNCU
- Greg Morse - Partner : King Morse, PLLC. Current CJA counsel, Former West Palm Beach Public Defender's Office. Author: "The Untested" found on Amazon, website: kingmorselaw.com
- Dr. John Delatorre – Licensed Psychologist and Mediator (specializing in forensic psychology); Psychological Consultant to Project Absentis: a nonprofit organization that searches for missing persons; Twitter, IG, and TikTok – @drjohndelatorre
- Barry Hutchison Sr. – Former Law Enforcement, Owner & Chief Investigator for Barry & Associates Investigative Services LLC
- Dr. William Morrone – Chief Medical Examiner, Bay County Michigan, Author: “American Narcan: Naloxone & Heroin-Fentanyl Associated Mortality”
- Dave Mack (AL) Investigative Reporter Crime Online
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:06.0 | A so-called angel of pain stalking the halls of the NICU, the newborn ICU unit. |
| 0:17.4 | That's the suspicion after seven newborns, just tiny baby infants, suffer unexplained |
| 0:24.9 | broken bones while in the hospital. Joining us tonight, the father of two of those babies. |
| 0:35.8 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. Thank you for being with us. |
| 0:39.5 | NICU nightmare infants with broken bones. What happened to these preemie babies? |
| 0:45.1 | Premature babies. I know. I had two of them and they survived only because of the nurses and doctors in the Nick U. |
| 0:55.0 | They would have died if it had not been for the Northside Hospital, |
| 1:00.0 | NICU unit after an emergency delivery. |
| 1:04.0 | Sadly, that was not the case with many, many other parents at one particular hospital. |
| 1:12.7 | Who would take a baby's bones, an infant, a newborn, and break and fracture their bones as |
| 1:22.3 | they lie there helpless? |
| 1:26.0 | First of all, take a listen to this. |
| 1:27.9 | It is a burden and a huge responsibility and also a privilege to be able to care for these |
| 1:35.2 | children at their most vulnerable states and these families in their most vulnerable |
| 1:40.5 | states. |
| 1:41.1 | Many, many of them have gone through all kinds of toil and trouble just trying |
| 1:46.4 | to get pregnant and then to deliver early or to have complications during delivery. It's just |
| 1:52.3 | heart-wrenching for these families to not be able to go through a natural birth process and take |
| 1:58.1 | your child home with you, believe them in the care of others who you really |
| 2:02.3 | don't know. You have to trust them. You do. You have to trust them. And sadly, that trust was |
| 2:08.5 | misplaced in the case of at least seven newborns that we know of think about it. A newborn baby, |
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