The authorities of the state of Florida are blaming a grandmother for the death of her granddaughter, and it is that the unfortunate event occurred less than a year after another grandson also died in her care.
According to the local media WFTSthe fact was recorded in Wauchula, a city in Hardee County, and the grandmother was identified as Tracey Nix, 65 years old.
The incident occurred in early November 2022, when Nix left her granddaughter unsupervised inside a vehicle. The minor, seven months old, died, and the elderly woman was charged with aggravated homicide.
The police record indicates that the elderly woman was also responsible for the death of a 16-month-old grandson, who drowned in a lake after Nix fell asleep while caring for him in December 2021.
Authorities said Nix left the baby in the car outside her home for several hours after returning from lunch. The report indicates that the woman did not remember the minor until dinner time, when she told her husband that he had forgotten her in the car.
Her husband immediately came out and took the minor out, trying to revive her without success. Response teams arrived at the home, but were unable to do more than pronounce the baby dead.
Police noted that the temperature reached 90 degrees Fahrenheit that day, so the child’s death was inevitable. An autopsy revealed that the minor died of suffocation, and that she did not present any type of injury.
Now, the mother of the two deceased minors, Kaila Schock, is demanding that her own mother go to prison.
“She needs to go to prison. As her daughter, it kills me to say it, but as a mother, I demand it, ”Kaila told the aforementioned local media.
Schock’s husband, Drew, said he was outraged, not explaining how such a tragedy could have happened twice in their lives.
“How do you forget a girl? (…) Two children now that they are no longer here. Someone has to answer for that,” she stated.
In the case of the deceased first grandson, Ezra, the boy opened the door to the house after the old woman fell asleep, slipped under a fence and wandered outside the house until he reached the pond in which he drowned.
As a result of that incident, the police attempted to file a child neglect charge, but the State Attorney’s Office refused to file the charges due to insufficient evidence in the case.
Kaila Schock told reporters at the time that she no longer trusted her father to care for her children, but apparently gave him a second chance in the months that followed.
“I am a daughter who loved her mother. When I was told that Ezra’s death was an accident, a small part of me thought, ‘It’s okay. Well, I’m staying with this mom, this grandmother,’” she said about it.
The police point out that the negligence shown by Nix caused the death of two minors, for which, if found guilty, she could spend between 12 and 30 years in prison.
