HARDEE COUNTY, Fla. – A Florida woman was arrested in November after her 7-month-old granddaughter died in a hot car, less than a year after the baby’s brother also died while in the woman’s care, according to a published report.
The Hardee County Sheriff’s Office said Tracey Nix, 65, left her granddaughter Uriel in the car after driving home from lunch with friends, according to WFTS-TV Tampa Bay. Nix went inside her home and practiced the piano before remembering the girl was in the car, according to an affidavit.
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The woman’s daughter, Kaila Nix, said she left Uriel in the care of her mother, despite her son dying nearly a year earlier while he was being cared for by her 65-year-old mother.
According to WFTS, Kaila Nix’s son Ezra drowned in a pond near Tracey Nix’s home in December 2021 when he got out of the house while she was asleep.
Tracey Nix faces aggravated manslaughter charges in the death of Uriel.
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