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.

They were all boys.

They suffered different injuries, came from diverse families and had nothing else in common that the parents could identify, according to Dominique Hackey, whose young son, Noah, suffered an unexplained fractured tibia in September 2023.

“There were all different injuries, and two boys had multiple injuries,” he told Fox News Digital. “So far, in chatting amongst ourselves, we can’t find a pattern of why our babies, other than that, they were just boys.”

Hackey said he remembers Strotman from the family’s NICU stay but had barely interacted with her. He remembers her as “nice” but “insignificant.”

Noah has recovered from a mysterious bone fracture that investigators say was caused by child abuse at a Virginia hospital where he was treated in the neonatal intensive care unit. (Courtesy of Dominique Hackey)

“It truly didn’t matter whether you were there all day, whether you were not there all day. This person found a way to still hurt our children,” he said. “That’s the part that keeps me up at night, because the first emotion that my son ever experienced was pain, and that’s not supposed to happen. The first emotion is supposed to be joy and laughter, you know, making funny faces at them. And that wasn’t the case, unfortunately, for my son and six other boys.”

Hackey said he only recently learned that Strotman had been placed on paid leave at some point, evidence that he says shows the hospital did suspect wrongdoing long before police announced her arrest last week. Investigators have largely left him without updates after confirming they believed his son’s injuries came from serious child abuse.

One of Hackey’s twin sons is shown with a supportive brace on his ankle after he suffered a strange injury, which investigators later deemed to have been caused by a hospital worker in a twisted case of child abuse. (Courtesy of Dominique Hackey)

The hospital is cooperating with investigators and has given police hundreds of hours of surveillance video.

“We are both shocked and saddened by this development in the investigation and are focused on continuing to care for our patients and providing support to our colleagues who have been deeply and personally impacted by this investigation,” the hospital said in a statement. 

Medical records show the injury was inflicted a day earlier than the Hackeys were previously told, he said. At the time of Noah’s attack, the hospital had not yet installed surveillance cameras. It has since put in 24-hour video surveillance as well as a means for parents to livestream their newborn’s room, and no staff members are permitted to enter without a second clinician for security purposes.

Now 16 months old, Noah Hackey has since recovered from his injury. (Courtesy of Dominique Hackey)

Police said they could not release many additional details about the case due to health care privacy laws. However, they are asking anyone with information that could help them bring more charges to contact detectives at police@henrico.gov, visit P3tips.com or call Crime Stoppers at 804-780-1000.

“Finding out that she was put on paid leave in connection with our cases, that the hospital suspected her, that’s all new information … to all of us,” he said, referring to his family and the five others he’s been in contact with.

Micah and Noah Hackey are now 16 months old. Noah has recovered from his injury and is now so active his parents “can barely keep up,” his father told Fox News Digital. (Courtesy of Dominique Hackey)

Hackey said he retained a lawyer Monday.

Both of the twins are now happy and healthy, he said, and the family is looking to move forward despite the traumatic experience.

“Experiencing two miscarriages and then having twins, that’s amazing,” he told Fox News Digital. “And having them both here after being told you might lose one of them, the whole pregnancy and then after the pregnancy, it’s truly a blessing, truly a blessing. Not many people have the privilege to be parents, and I was blessed two times over, so I’m going to do whatever I can to protect them.”