This 11 year old was kidnapped Sunday in broad daylight in Florida. Please keep your eyes opened and keep her in your prayers.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040204/ap_on_re_us/abduction_filmed_11

That's scary. I wonder if she knew her abductor from someplace else. Looking at the survellience picture he has her by the arm but she doesn't appear to be fighting back or anything. I do hope they find her alive. She looks a lot older than 11 in the picture.

Abducted by a white male? Funny, he looks black to me.

Anyway, that's sad. I hope she's found.

Yeah, I heard about that. I hope they find her. :(

that's so sad :( I hope she's found safely.

I hate watching that video on tv, but then again I'm glad they have it and are showing it so that creep can be indentified and arrested. He probably saw himself on tv and said "sh*t, I thought I was going to get away with this scot-free!" I hope he is quaking in his boots right now and realizes it is only a matter of time before they catch him, so he lets the girl go before he makes it any worse.

Yeah, ive seen the video a lot. Its very disturbing, and i hope they find her. People can be really dumb sometimes. I dont get why people do this. Its horrible

Poor child. It's tragic when young people get kidnapped. I remember reading about the Elisabeth Smart case and was so thrilled when she was found alive. Hopefully it will be the same for this girl. She and her family will be in my prayers.

I hadn't heard about that. She looks older than 11 to me. I hope they can catch this guy before it's too late. :(

Breaking News: At 7:45pm Eastern, the man who kidnapped the girl from Florida is in custody!! But the girl has yet to be found!!

Originally posted by EricIdlefan
Breaking News: At 7:45pm Eastern, the man who kidnapped the girl from Florida is in custody!! But the girl has yet to be found!!

If she is not with him that is not good news. :(

reminds me of Dru Sjodin

I really hope this is the guy that we saw on the video. :( This is horrible. I am praying for Carla and her family to get through this. :(

She's not with him?? Maybe she got away. I'll pray for her.

That videotape is heartbreaking. I don't have a good feeling about the outcome of this story. Sorry, but I just don't.

The suspect in custody isn't cooperating with authorities at all. Ridiculous. a psychic has said Carlie is still alive but tied up in a dark place. I dont know if they are right but it's nice to keep a positive hope vibe out there for her.

There is a website dedicated to finding Carlie now

http://www.findcarlie.com

Originally posted by Nanny Fine
If she is not with him that is not good news. :(

reminds me of Dru Sjodin

It's been almost 3 months since her disapperance...Not good news...I heard the authorities have been doing a LOT of OT on the Dru case, and about $50,000 in authorities' work have been invested alone...That's for them doing OT, hiring other police officers from different towns, etc etc. I have no idea how much money this case is using up alone. :(

Any sign of a child not being found is bad, bad, news!!

I'm so sorry to have to be the one to post this, but they just found her body:

Body of Missing Girl Found; Man Arrested
46 minutes ago

By MITCH STACY, Associated Press Writer

SARASOTA, Fla. - The body of an 11-year-old girl whose abduction was captured by a surveillance camera was found in a church parking lot, and a mechanic has been charged with her murder, officials said Friday.

Sarasota County Sheriff Bill Balkwill declined to say where Carlie Brucia's body was found, but a law enforcement source close to the investigation said it was found between 12:45 a.m. and 1 a.m. Friday outside a church near the car wash where she was taken.

"Our prayers on behalf of everybody here in Sarasota County go out to the family," Balkwill said.

He said Joseph P. Smith, 37, has been charged with the girl's murder. Smith is believed to be the tattooed man in a mechanic's shirt who was seen in a car wash surveillance video leading Carlie away by the arm Sunday evening, authorities said.

Investigators found the body after negotiations with Smith, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Earlier, authorities had said Smith was not cooperating.

"We now stand ready to complete our obligation, and assure you that he will pay the ultimate price for what he did to her," Capt. Jeff Bell said.

The girl's father, Joe Brucia, somberly thanked "all the (law enforcement) people behind me and all the people that were behind them in their efforts to find my daughter." He also thanked "the community that was so involved."

Family friends gathered Friday outside the Central Church of Christ, which is a few miles from the car wash, near a hay field and woods. The church was surrounded by yellow crime scene tape Friday, and about a dozen detectives walked in a line across the field in an evidence sweep. Another 20 were at the scene. They declined to confirm whether the body was found at the church.

Family and friends had kept vigil outside Carlie's ranch-style house, which was decorated with banners and posters reading, "We love you, Carlie."


Friends described Carlie as a beautiful girl who loved watching actress Jennifer Lopez, going to the mall and greeting friends with warm hugs. She was heading home from a slumber party when she was abducted.


Carlie's friend Natalie Thomas cried after hearing that her classmate's body was found. She remembered Carlie's smile and that she liked to go on walks.


"There's nothing you can do to make anybody feel better and it's going to hurt for a long, long time," said Chuck Chambers, a private investigator who was working with the family.


"I need my daughter home," Carlie's mother, Susan Schorpen, had said Thursday. "She's a very, very important part of this family and community."


Members of her former Girl Scout troop took a day off from school Wednesday to pass out fliers at shopping centers, canvass neighborhoods and distribute pink ribbons adorned with Carlie's name.

A reward fund of $50,000 was offered for information.


Smith has been arrested at least 13 times in Florida since 1993, according to state records, and convicted of drug possession and other charges. He was arrested in 1997 in Manatee County on kidnapping and false imprisonment charges but was acquitted a year later.

An aide to Smith's public defender, Adam Tebrugge, had declined to comment Thursday.

Carlie was walking home from a friend's house at about 6:20 p.m. Sunday when she took a short cut behind Evie's Car Wash, which was closed for the day.

Bloodhounds led deputies to the business, and car wash owner Mike Evanoff checked the security system video Monday, he said. The images of Carlie popped up almost immediately, he said.

"It was cold chills right up my back," Evanoff said earlier this week. "My manager couldn't even look at it. It's an awful feeling."

In the 1997 kidnapping case, a 20-year-old woman in Bradenton said a man grabbed her as she walked by and tried to pull her away, according to records released by the Manatee County Sheriff's Office.

"He got on top of me and told me to shut up or he would cut me," she told authorities. After a struggle, she said, she managed to run into the street, and passengers in an approaching van stopped and rescued her.

Smith, found hiding behind a house by a police tracking dog, was acquitted by jurors after telling them he was trying to keep the woman from running into the street and she misunderstood.



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Sad, sad news. May she rest in peace.

This just makes me sick! Here is this guy who has been arrested 13 times and one of those times for kidnapping. Our jails and prisons have become revolving doors! This slime ball or whoever is responsible should be executed immediately!(but no way will that happen. We will have to support him in prison on death row for 20 years first. Then he will be let out again!) Anybody who does this to a child (or anyone for that matter) doesn't deserve to live! I am sure that this happens a lot more than we know. It is just not publicized.

I am so angry! :mad: :smash: :cuss:

How terrible! My heart and prayers go out to her family.

I agree with Marlene. Why was this slimeball on the street to begin with? In Woburn, MA last month (the town my dad grew up in and I was born in) a woman and her 12 year-old daughter were found stabbed to death. The woman was raped before she was killed. The suspect was a sex offender who was out on parole. If the prison system had kept this monster in prison, a woman and her little girl would be alive right now.

I'm disgusted that criminals in this country have more rights and advocates than their victims and law-abiding citizens do. I'm all for the death penalty, especially in those two cases.

That's so sad! Now I really hate seeing that video, knowing what happens to her.
I guess we now know why he was not being cooperative with the police.:mad:

I am saddened by the horibble tragic news of Carlie :( My heart goes out to the family and her friends, along with my prayers. This makes me so angry. How could they let this sex offender, etc CRIMINAL walk the streets, and go after a young and beautiful girl (or anyone for that matter!) I DON'T GET IT!!! The judge was irresponsible and stupid, along with the jury to let this guy walk!!!! 13 ARRESTS...that should tell the jury and judge he's a BAD SEED!!!

It's pretty stupid that a person who sells drugs on the street, gets put in jail for a long time, but not a guy who has been arrested 13 times...that's MESSED UP! I hope Jeb Bush comes up with a law that when a person has a long criminal history like this man did, that they will be put in jail for a long time!!!

I wonder what Joesph P Smith's family thinks of him now. If he was a part of my family, I would kick him to the curb FOREVER!!!

Carlie, You're in heaven now where it's peaceful, and no one can hurt you.

I feel anyone who molests a child or rapes a woman should be put away forever. These people have a sicknesss that cannot be cured. I don't care how much therapy they get. Once a sex offender, always a sex offender.