Negligent grandma kills her two grandchildren, heartbroken mother demands she 'go to prison'
HARDEE COUNTY, FLORIDA: A heartbroken mother is demanding justice after her two children died under the care of their grandma. Grandmother Tracey Nix was charged with aggravated manslaughter following the tragic death of a seventh-month baby girl Uriel Schock, only months after her elder brother Ezra Nix drowned under the elderly woman's care.
On November 22, Tracey, a former school principal, left Uriel in the backseat of her SUV in Florida and forgot about the child. When she remembered that Uriel was still in the car, it was too late. The late children's parents claimed, "You couldn't fathom it happening twice" and that Tracey "needs to go to prison." The children's mother Kaila claimed, "As her daughter it kills me to say it. As their mother I demand it," reported Daily Mail.
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What happened to baby Uriel Schock?
Uriel's mother Kaila had left her daughter with her grandmother Tracey for two hours to attend a hair appointment last November. Tracey said, she "just forgot" about the three-month-old infant after driving home from lunch and going to practice piano, leaving Uriel alone all afternoon in 90F (32C) heat with the windows up, according to the Hardee County Sheriff's Office complaint affidavit.
The grandmother realized the horrifying tragedy "all of a sudden" after one of her grandsons arrived to see her. Her husband, Nun Ney Nix, performed CPR on the child but unsuccessfully. The child could not be resuscitated. The devasting mishap comes only a few months after Uriel's brother Ezra's life was also cut short.
What happened to baby Ezra Nix?
The 16-month-old Ezra drowned in a pond just before Christmas 2021 after he was left unattended. Tracey had fallen asleep when her partner was running errands. When she woke up she couldn't find the child and informed her husband. She later found the toddler lying face down about knee-deep in the large pond near their home. As an educator, she first tried to perform CPR but ther was no response. Tracey's husband informed the child's father Drew Schock, who told the child's mother Kaila "something happened to Ezra."
At the time, Kaila was 6 months pregnant with Uriel and sped to her mother's house, and was involved in a car crash. She then ran over to Tracey's house without shoes in "desperation to get my son." Kaila broke the heartbreaking news on Facebook that her son was taken off life support and died on December 23, 2021. Meanwhile, the grandmother was not charged for the "one-time lapse of judgement."
'Parents seek 'justice' for Uriel and Ezra'
However after Ezra's death, the child's parents "didn't trust [Tracey] at all." The were understandably in two minds after the death of their child due to Tracey's negligence. Kaila said, "We were anxious, but I loved my mother and I am a daughter that wanted her mom in her life in some capacity, and in that moment, I thought that I could believe in second chances. She claimed the "very minor amount of time" that her mother saw Uriel was "almost always supervised.'" She recalled the tragedy and said just two hours after leaving her mother with "Uri," Hardee County Sheriff's Office told her that her mother had left her daughter "to die alone in her car."
In November, police arrived to tell the mother her baby had died. "And I said, 'I'm sorry, what? I know Ezra's dead. Why are you here, like what - what is this?' No Kaila, your baby is dead," they told the mother. "You couldn't fathom it happening twice," Drew said. Somebody has to answer for that." Kaila said, "If I'm objective, she needs to go to prison. As her daughter it kills me to say it. As their mother I demand it." The parents added that they want Ezra and Uriel to know "that we love them and that we are sorry." They now seek "justice" for Uriel and Ezra. Tracey is also known to be "totally devastated" by the deaths.
