A tearful daughter has insister her mother must be caged for the deaths of her two toddlers who died in their grandmother’s care within a year. Kaila Schock said her mother Tracey Nix, 65, should go to jail over the deaths of Ezra, 16 months, and Uriel, seven months. Ezra drowned while on Nix’s property as the grandmother slept in December 2021.
While Uriel died barely a year later in November 2022 when Nix left her in a hot car while her grandmother was practicing the piano inside.
Schock told WSVN: “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.”
Nix has been charged with manslaughters for Uriel’s death and faces up to 30 years in prison.
But the State Attorney’s Office declined an attempt by the police to charge her for Ezra’s death.
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Ezra has wandered into a pond and drowned while grandmother slept just three days before Christmas in 2021.
The toddler had managed to find his way into the garden by climbing under a fence.
Nix’s husband called Kaila’s husband, Drew Schock, and said: “Something happened to Ezra.”
Despite the police department’s efforts to file charges against Nix, the Florida Attorney’s Office “stated that a one-time lapse of judgment would not establish culpable negligence of the caretaker.”
Just three months after lsoing Ezra, Schock gave birth to Uriel. She left her daughter in her mother’s care while going to get her hair done.
Schock explained she was aware Nix had lunch plans with friends and trusted them as she did not allow er daughter to be unsupervised with the grandmother.
Schock said: “Uri was at a restaurant with other people that I knew and trusted, they were in the friend group and were keeping her safe, and I had supervised many, many, many interactions at this point at my house.”
But Uriel died after being left in Nix’s car in 32C (90F) heat. Nix said she had “just forgot” about her granddaughter after returning home from lunch with her friends.
Nix had been practicing pinao when “all of a sudden” she remembered the toddler was in the car.
Her husband Nun Ney Nix attempted CPR but was unsuccessful.
Drew Schock told Fox 13: “When I pulled up to the house, I’m coming to pick up my little girl, and there are ambulances there, and I’m thinking: ‘What the is going on?’ I was having flashbacks, because when I pulled back with Ezra there, it was the same exact scene.
“You couldn’t fathom it happening twice. Somebody has to answer for that.
“I want justice for my son. I want justice because he didn’t get that. And now I got to sit here and expose this. That way, I don’t let what happened to my son happen with my daughter. And just get off scot-free because I couldn’t live with that as a parent.”
Nix’s lawyer, William Fletcher, argued that the deaths were “obviously an accident.”
He told WSVN: “The question was – is it culpable negligence? Tracey loves her daughter and her son-in-law and all of her children and her grandchildren.
“I got a couple of grandkids and you feel the same way about your grandkids, so the parents are hurting, but the grandparents are hurting too. So there are no winners here.”
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