HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — A plea hearing has been scheduled for former NICU nurse Erin Strotman, who is accused of harming multiple infants at Henrico Doctors' Hospital.
CBS 6 Investigative Reporter Melissa Hipolit has confirmed Strotman is now expected to plead guilty or no contest to several charges related to broken bones suffered by infants in the NICU. Her attorney, Jeffrey Everhart, says the court will hear a summary of evidence at the plea hearing on Thursday, Jan. 15.
Strotman faces multiple counts of felony child abuse and malicious wounding for allegedly harming multiple infants in the neonatal intensive care unit at Henrico Doctors' Hospital beginning in 2022.
The hospital paused NICU admissions the day after Christmas 2024 due to several babies having "unexplainable fractures."
A sentencing hearing will be scheduled at least 90 days after the plea, according to Henrico Commonwealth's Attorney Shannon Taylor.
Watch: Former NICU nurse faces additional charges (May 2025)
Strotman, a former nurse in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital, was first arrested in January 2025 and charged with injuring a baby in the NICU in November 2024.
As CBS 6 has previously reported, Strotman was placed on paid administrative leave in 2023 after the hospital conducted an internal investigation into multiple cases of babies that had suffered broken bones, and found that she had had contact with all of the infants in question.
However, Child Protective Services documents obtained by CBS 6 show that investigators ultimately could not definitively prove Strotman was responsible for abuse.
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