Florida Mom Calls For Mother's Arrest After Two Of Her Kids Die In Her Care Within A Year

Kaila Nix, from Florida, is grieving the loss of her two kids and now wants her own mother to be jailed after two of her kids passed away in her care within a span of only one year.

Kaila Schock said her mother should be in prison. YouTube/ABC Action News

Nix cannot put words to her pain after the death of her seven-month-old daughter Uriel Schock – who sadly died just 11 months after her 16-month-old brother Ezra.

According to a Hardee County Sheriff’s Office complaint affidavit obtained in a report by Tampa Bay news outlet WFTS, her mother Tracey Nix, 65, was charged with aggravated manslaughter for the death of Uriel, who died in a hot car last November.

Tracey had been babysitting Uriel that day and took her to lunch with friends, with CCTV footage showing her strapping the youngster into the car seat at around 1.40 pm before taking the 10-minute journey home to Wauchula.

The grandmother reportedly parked her car and rolled the windows up before she headed inside to talk to her dog and practice piano.

Tragically, Uriel ended up dying inside the hot car, with WFTS reporting the temperature had soared to 90 degrees that day.

In a police interview, Tracey said she had ‘just forgotten’ about the infant.

The affidavit said:

“The defendant said she parked the car in the yard and forgot the victim was in the back seat and proceeded to inside the house and talk to her dog and practice piano for a ‘long time’ because she had a piano lesson coming up on Thursday,”

Tracey Nix’s mugshot. Hardee County Sheriff

“The defendant said she didn’t have ‘anything specific’ on her mind, and it’s not like ‘I was rushing in the house to do anything ... I just forgot'."

The affidavit says the medical examiner ruled out the child's death from hyperthermia as the child was left in the vehicle by a grownup for several hours and even the windows were all rolled up, additionally, the vehicle not running,’ thus, ruling the death a homicide.

Little Uriel died less than one year after her toddler brother Ezra died by drowning.

At the time, he was also in Tracey’s care, but she fell asleep as he wandered outside and fell in a nearby pond.

Tracey was not charged in the incident, which was ruled an accidental death.

Speaking to WFTS, Kaila said she is trying to be ‘objective’ about her mother’s fate after what happened to Uriel, having been left in an undeniably difficult position.

“If I’m objective, she needs to go to prison,” she said.

“As her daughter, it kills me to say it. As their mother, I demand it. I will fight for them.”

Husband Drew Schock added: “Two children now who are no longer here. Somebody has to answer for that.”

The state attorney told the outlet that Florida appellate courts have stated how a ‘one-time lapse of judgment would not establish culpable negligence of the caretaker,’ saying there was ‘insufficient evidence’ to establish such culpable negligence after Ezra’s death.

However, Uriel’s death is ‘factually distinguishable’, which is why charges have been filed.

Tracey’s lawyer said she could be sentenced to between 12 to 30 years in prison if found guilty.