NICU nurse accused of assaulting premature babies
Erin Strotman

Inset: Erin Strotman (Henrico County Jail). Background: Henrico Doctors’ Hospital (Google Maps).

Prosecutors have received text messages shedding light on the mental state of a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) nurse at a hospital in Virginia who is being accused of mistreating at least one premature infant.

Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman, 26, is facing allegations of malicious wounding and felony child abuse following an incident that took place in November of the previous year at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital in Richmond. Allegedly, videos captured Strotman manipulating a 5-month-old baby boy’s legs in a manner that caused his feet to touch his head.

This article is part of Law&Crime’s coverage: ‘Akin to a prison setting’: 8-year-old ‘horrifically assaulted’ by special education staff using soundproof mats, lemon juice and soap, lawsuit says

During a bond hearing on Wednesday morning, prosecutors entered some of Strotman’s text messages into the record, according to a courtroom report from Richmond CBS affiliate WTVR. In a text message from October 2023, she reportedly said she had been pacing and felt like she took “cocaine again” even though she hadn’t. She also said she felt like she had a personality disorder.

“I feel manic,” she wrote. “It takes everything in me not to start s—.”

The day before her arrest she reportedly texted she was “five seconds away from checking myself into crisis.”

The judge once again declined to give Strotman a bond and she remains in jail.

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