Volume II No. 28
 02-08-04
 The Tragic Murder Of Carlie Brucia
 author: Vance Cureton
 © Copyright 2004

  Evil is an ugly thing. When evil comes in the form of 
 a human being, it can be a dangerous thing.

 The day that the grainy tape of a man and a young girl
 approaching one another on the parking lot behind a car 
 wash, was released to the media. The world was given 
 a front row seat to a crime in progress. 

 Whatever it was that was going down on that tape. The 
 outcome for the startled young girl was not likely to be 
 a positive one.

 The innocent in question was eleven-year-old Carlie 
 Brucia. Tragically, she's dead now. Carlie's battered
 corpse was left abandoned behind a church. Tossed
 aside like a worthless sack of trash. A depraved indivual 
 by the name of Joesph P. Smith, is the person believed 
 responsible for her untimely death. 

 And so now America will once again be home to
 spectacle. The spectacle of Joseph P. Smith's trial. 
 All the gory details about Carlie's murder will surely
 leak out and be talked about endlessly before Smith's
 trial is even scheduled. And then, just as suddenly the 
 murder of this innocent eleven-year-old will be
 yesterday's news. No longer important. Forgotten.

 Life goes on.

 Yet, it is not that simple. Isn't this senseless act
 caught on tape of more significance than a page
 turning in a book? Only to be followed by the next
 page, and another page after that one?

 Carlie Brucia should be alive right now. Laughing. 
 Playing. And having fun. A young girl full of joy.

 Who's fault is it that she is not?

 What in the world was Carlie doing walking home
 alone in the evening unescorted. { she was grabbed 
 by Smith at approximately 6:20 PM. } Parents MUST 
 be forever vigilant. Whether small town America or 
 the inner city, children Carlie's age should never be 
 allowed to walk any significant distance alone. 

 Bad things can happen.

 And what about this pedophile Joseph P. Smith? In 
 the last decade he has been arrested 13 times. By any 
 definition those many arrests classifies Smith as a career 
 criminal. Recently he was subject to prosecution for a 
 parole violation.

 A judge released him.

 Is a career criminal such as Smith deserving of any
 such leniency? Why was this animal out on the street 
 and not behind bars?

 These are only questions. -- But in this contentious
 world of ours. The answers to these questions will 
 undoubtedly remain elusive, imperfect, and inadequate.
 But we do not have to forget Carlie Brucia, even if
 we do not have the perfect remedy for murders such
 as hers.

 Florida is a death penalty state. Yet, even a monster
 such as Joseph P. Smith does not deserve the death 
 penalty. The death penalty is arcane and barbaric. Carlie 
 is dead. Executing this man as an act of statuatory revenge 
 will not return her to the living.

 But if there is indeed an afterlife. Carlie is already in 
 heaven amongst the angels. Upon his eventual death, 
 { whether by the state, other inmates, natural causes, 
 or even by his own hand } Smith will find that "judgement"
 in this world does not in any way compare to what's 
 waiting in the one to follow.
 

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