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A grandmother charged with the manslaughter of her seven-month-old granddaughter after leaving her in a hot car will be sent to a mental health facility because she 'refuses to talk' about the tragedy.

Tracey Nix, 65, is accused of abandoning Uriel Schock while she practiced piano inside her home in November last year.

Just a year earlier, Nix's grandson, 16-month-old Ezra Schock, drowned while in her care after she fell asleep.

Nix's daughter, Kaila Schock-Nix, 34, has called for her to be jailed.

At Hardee County Court on Thursday, Nix's husband, Nun Ney, requested she be sent to a mental health facility in St. Cloud for 30 days to help her open up about what happened.

Tracey Nix, 65, is accused of abandoning Uriel Schock while she practiced piano at her home 

Uriel (above) had been left with her grandmother only because she was at lunch with friends. Nix was rarely allowed to take care of Uriel alone after her grandson drowned while in her care a year earlier

'I would just like to see her get help. I would like to see her come back to whatever normal will be,' he said. 'She is a very smart and intelligent person. She has a psychology degree, but the fact that she's not talking tells me she needs someone that can help her work through these issues.'

Nix's attorney Drew Davis also argued that the move would help the case move forward. 'She's having a hard time discussing the incident with her husband, with any other people and that includes her attorneys,' he said. 'As we all know that could very well prove a competency issue down the line.'

Judge Reinaldo Ojeda expressed concerns that Nix had previously expressed her wish to 'flee her situation' and that the facility was not locked down, Fox 13 reported.

But he ultimately agreed to the request on the basis that Nix had worked as a principal and educator in Hardee County for 39 years and had been 'highly regarded'.

'The request on its face is not unreasonable,' Judge Ojeda said. 'Ms. Nix is not asking to go out of state or the four corners of our state. She's asking to go an hour and a half away.'

As court adjourned Kaila Shock-Nix embraced her mother and father.

Nix will appear in court again on June 22. She faces a minimum sentence of 12 years and a maximum of 35 if she is found guilty of aggravated manslaughter.

Nix was released on bail following her arrest in November.

Police had previously attempted to charge her for Ezra's death, but the State Attorney's Office declined it.

At Hardee County Court on Thursday, Nix's husband, Nun Ney, requested she be sent to a mental health facility in St. Cloud for 30 days to help her open up about what happened

Nix's daughter, Kaila Schock-Nix, embraced her as court adjourned 

Uriel died after being left in Nix's car in 90-degree heat. Nix said she 'just forgot' her granddaughter in her car after returning home from lunch with her friends

Nix's daughter gave a tearful interview to ABC Action News earlier this month, in which she 'demanded' she be jailed over her children's deaths.

'If I'm objective - she needs to go to prison,' Schock-Nix said, speaking alongside her husband, Drew.

'As her daughter, it kills me to say it. As their mother, I demand it.'

Ezra died at his grandmother's home just three days before Christmas in 2021  after wandering into a pond and drowning while she slept.

Nun Ney, who had been running errands, called Ezra's father after returning home and told him: 'Something happened to Ezra.'

Kaila, who had an older son named Asher and was six months pregnant with Uriel at the time, rushed to her parent's home, driving 85mph and getting in a head-on collision on her way as she watched a helicopter head toward their address.

'I could see the helicopter landing,' she said. 'I didn't look when there was a stop sign.

'All of my airbags went off, I don't remember how I got out, but I got out and started running to my parent's house and at this point, I don't have shoes. I'm just running.

'That was my desperation to get to my son.'

When she arrived at the home, Ezra was dead.

The couple said they did not allow their first-born son, Asher, to be alone with Nix after Ezra died because they didn't trust the grandmother 'at all'.

Ezra died in December 2021 after drowning in a pool on his grandmother Tracey Nix's property while she slept

Nix's daughter, Kaila, (left) gave a tearful interview to ABC Action News alongside her husband, Drew (right), in which she 'demanded' she be jailed over her children's deaths. Pictured here with Ezra

Kalia want their children to know that they are 'sorry' and that their lives were 'taken by someone that we believed was worthy of trust'. Pictured here with Ezra 

Drew with their son Asher and late son Ezra at an unknown time 

But in November 2022, Kaila left Uriel in her mother's care while going to get her hair done.

She knew her mother had lunch plans with friends and said she trusted them, as she rarely allowed her daughter to be unsupervised with Nix.

'Uri was at a restaurant with other people that I knew and trusted, they were in the friend group and were keeping her safe, and I had supervised many, many, many interactions at this point at my house,' she said.

Uriel died after being left in Nix's car in 90-degree heat. Nix said she 'just forgot' her granddaughter in her car after returning home from lunch with her friends.

She was practicing the piano when she 'all of a sudden' remembered the toddler.

Nun Ney ran out and began CPR on the child but was unsuccessful.

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