A Florida woman is seeking prison time for her own mother after her two children died less than a year apart while allegedly in their grandmother’s care, one in a hot car and the other in accidental drowning
The grandmother, Tracey Nix, 65, was arrested and charged in November 2022 with aggravated manslaughter and leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle, court records show. The charges are related to the Nov. 1, 2022, death of 7-month-old Uriel Schock.
Authorities said Nix left Uriel in her vehicle outside her Wauchula home for several hours after returning from lunch. Nix said she “forgot” the child was in the car, according to court documents.
“How do you forget a little girl,” Uriel’s father, Drew Schock, said in a tearful interview this week with local station WFTS.
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