A former neonatal nurse who broke the bones of nine newborn babies during a two-year campaign of “evil” child abuse inside a hospital’s intensive care unit has been sentenced to a prison term that critics say falls far short of the gravity of her crimes.
Erin Strotman, 27, worked in the neonatal intensive care unit at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital, where from 2022 through 2024, she allegedly inflicted harm on nine children. Strotman made a plea agreement, pleading no contest after a slew of child abuse charges were brought against her.
Judge Richard Wallerstein Jr. accepted the plea deal, which includes a maximum sentence of three years in prison despite Strotman facing 20 charges of heinous crimes against babies.
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The case against her began in late 2024 when hospital staff found three pre-term babies had bone fractures that couldn’t be explained. KVVU-TV reported the prosecution showed footage in court of Strotman “placing her full body weight on the infant who was crying in distress.”
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Strotman is currently on house arrest until her sentencing in June.
Western Journal report: Henrico Commonwealth’s Attorney Shannon Taylor commented on the case and vowed to achieve justice for the families of these children.
“I have always made it a priority to ensure that we would be able to ask the Court to hold Erin Strotman accountable for all of the families being impacted,” she said.
“We made a promise to these families that we would continue to work on this matter, and I intended for us to keep that promise.”
A maximum of three years would hardly be considered justice.
KVUE reported Thursday that Virginia Gonzales, a mother in Del Valle, Texas, pleaded guilty to two counts of felony child abuse, receiving 25 years in prison.
This was a plea deal for Gonzales, 33, after her malnourished 7-year-old was found by her grandmother locked away in Gonzales’ home. The girl suffered permanent brain damage from starvation, weighing just 29 pounds.
A daycare worker in Montgomery County, Tennessee, was given a 20-year sentence after abusing a 13-month-old in her care. Footage during her trial showed the worker, Sarah Fuson, slamming the child’s head into a cot, WKRN reported in December.
Both women hurt children much like Strotman did, but their sentences were significantly longer.
There should not be any hope for people like this to ever get a light sentence.
Twenty years should a minimum.
