A Virginia woman has been charged with child abuse after being connected to jarring injuries a newborn suffered in a neonatal intensive care unit in a hospital where she worked as a nurse. But the full story sounds much more ominous.

The father of a Virginia toddler who suffered a mysterious bone fracture as a newborn in a Richmond hospital's neonatal intensive care unit says the victims all shared one common trait, even as a motive remains unclear.

Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman, 26, was charged with malicious wounding and felony child abuse over the disturbing infant injuries at Hernia Doctors’ Hospital in Richmond last month, police said in a