Florida grandma whose negligence killed two toddlers in separate incidents gets very light sentence

A Florida grandmother progressive successful the decease of 2 of her grandchildren successful abstracted incidents has received a shocking condemnation of lone 5 years successful prison. 

Tracey Nix, 67, was sentenced to fractional a decennary down bars aft a sentencing proceeding connected Thursday aft she near her 7-month-old granddaughter, Uriel, successful a blistery car astir 2 and a fractional years ago. 

Nix had been returning from luncheon with friends connected November 1, 2022, erstwhile she near the babe successful the car arsenic temperatures reached 90 degrees that afternoon. 

This was astir a twelvemonth aft Nix's 16-month-old grandson Ezra had been successful the attraction of his Nix erstwhile helium opened the doors and wandered into a pond extracurricular of her home. 

Ezra drowned successful the excavation portion Nix was sleeping during the December 2021 incident.

Friends she had luncheon with the time Uriel died antecedently testified that Nix, whomthey had known for decades, was a loving grandmother, Fox 13 reported.  

The proceeding was particularly emotional, arsenic Nix's girl and the parent of babe Uriel, Kaila Nix-Schock, told her parent she inactive loved her. 

'I inactive emotion you. I hatred this,' Nix-Schock said successful tears. 'I hatred that I person to choose, but you cognize I had to. But it doesn't alteration my heart.' 

Nix spoke tearfully to her girl and said: 'I emotion you, and I've ever loved you with each my heart.' 

'I archer you that due to the fact that I can't ideate however I would person acted and reacted had you been taken from me,' she continued. 

Nix faced up to 30 years successful situation connected charges of aggravated manslaughter, but the assemblage acquitted her of that charge. 

She was recovered blameworthy of leaving a kid unattended successful a vehicle, causing large bodily harm. 

Nix had gone wrong astatine astir 2 p.m. and talked to her canine and practiced playing the soft 'for a agelong time' earlier she remembered her granddaughter was inactive wrong the blistery car.  

Baby Uriel's father, Drew Schock, said: 'There are immoderate things you don't deliberation about, and arsenic parents we person to unrecorded with that for the remainder of our lives.' 

Nix spoke connected the incidental for the archetypal clip connected Thursday astir wherefore Uriel ended up being near successful the car that fateful afternoon. 

'I didn't recognize that Uriel was successful the car. I virtually forgot for a agelong play of time,' she said. 

'I'm breached astir what happened. I don't privation to permission anyone with the thought that I'm making excuses, due to the fact that I'm not.' 

Nix's husband, Nun Ney, said that 'Tracey mourned successful silence,' and she seldom near the location aft Uriel's death. 

However, the justice ruled connected the condemnation taking into relationship that the incidental was not isolated. 

'Uriel is not an isolated incident. I bash not judge she is showing remorse; I judge she is showing sorrow,' said Judge Brandon Rafool. 

'She's done this doubly and the information that we're debating whether she deserves jailhouse clip is conscionable insane to me,' Schock said astatine the April 3 hearing. 

After Ezra's death, constabulary had attempted to record charges against Nix astatine the time, but the Florida Attorney's Office 'stated that a one-time lapse of judgement would not found culpable negligence of the caretaker.' 

Yet erstwhile the parents were forced to unreserved backmost to Tracey's location successful November 2022, Schock said helium started to person flashbacks.

'When I pulled up to the house, I’m coming to prime up my small girl, and determination are ambulances there, and I’m thinking: "What the is going on?" helium told Fox 13. 

'I was having flashbacks, due to the fact that erstwhile I pulled backmost with Ezra there, it was the aforesaid nonstop scene.'

Police showed up astatine Nix-Schock's doorway to stock the heart-wrenching news, but the parent was confused.

'I said: "I’m sorry, what? I cognize Ezra’s dead. Why are you here, similar what — what is this?"' Nix-Schock recalled. '[He said:] "No Kaila, your babe is dead."'

'You couldn’t fathom it happening twice,' Schock said. 'Somebody has to reply for that.'

The justice told the tribunal connected Thursday that the sentencing was his 'final determination here.' 

'I americium not putting radical connected probation to beryllium walking astir this assemblage to rehash an contented oregon for thing to travel up. I person sentenced her to 5 years successful prison. I privation this assemblage to determination on,' Rafool said. 

He urged the assemblage to springiness the household abstraction to stay successful peace. 

'This assemblage needs to determination past this lawsuit and permission Drew and Kaila Schock alone. Let them and their 2 children unrecorded successful peace. This household has mislaid 2 children, Ezra and Uriel Schock. The calamity of this lawsuit is undeniable,' Rafool added.  

Yet, Schock was outraged by the airy sentencing. 

'Five years is truly a driblet successful the bucket. We volition walk the remainder of our lives - our lad volition turn up without his member oregon sister. Five years to me, is it justice? No, not really. But it's what we could person gotten,' helium said. 

Nix-Schock told Fox 13: 'I loved and adored my children. I besides emotion and adore my family. I deliberation this proceeding truly demonstrated the tortured quality of the full event. The emotion for my household is real, but the emotion for my children supersedes everything.'