Man Guilty in Fla. Girls Rape, Killing

[Lethalfind]

Man Guilty in Fla. Girl's Rape, Killing By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press Writer

9 minutes ago

 

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051118/ap_on_re_us/abduction_filmed;_ylt=AirL9Q2m9VRkeWpxw1Wh12Ss0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MjBwMWtkBHNlYwM3MTg-

 

 

"SARASOTA, Fla. - A mechanic with a long criminal record was convicted Thursday of kidnapping, raping and strangling an 11-year-old girl whose abduction was captured by a car-wash security camera. Joseph Smith, 39, could get the death penalty.

 

The jury took about five hours to find him guilty in the slaying of Carlie Brucia, whose half-naked body was found outside a church more than four days after the sixth-grader disappeared in February 2004 while walking home from a friend's house.

 

Smith was arrested after being identified as the burly, tattooed man in a mechanic's uniform who was seen taking the girl by the wrist and leading her away in a grainy video that was broadcast nationwide during the search for the killer.

 

Prosecutors built their case on the footage, the testimony of Smith's friends and co-workers who said they recognized Smith in the video, DNA and hair-analysis evidence, and the word of the defendant's brother, who said Smith confessed.

 

Smith, who did not take the stand, showed no emotion when the verdict was read. The jury will return for the sentencing phase on Nov. 28.

 

Carlie's mother, Susan Schorpen, wept softly with her head bowed when the verdict was read, and the girl's father, Joe Brucia, nodded when each of the three convictions was announced. As he left court, he said only that he was happy with the verdict.

 

"I can never hold her again. Where's the closure?" Schorpen said outside the courthouse. "I've lost one of the most precious things to me in my life because of an animal, a disgusting, perverted animal."

 

When asked if she was satisfied with the verdict, she responded: "When he's dead. When he meets his maker."

 

Carlie's killing spurred the introduction of federal and state legislation to crack down on probation violators.

 

At the time of the slaying, Smith was in violation of the terms of his probation on a cocaine charge because he failed to pay $411 in fines and court costs. But a judge declined to put him in jail, saying Florida does not have a "debtor's prison."

 

At the trial, Smith's lawyers raised questions about the reliability of the FBI lab where the evidence was analyzed and challenged the motives of Smith's brother, John, suggesting he was interested in the reward money.

 

The brother told the jury Smith had confessed to having "rough sex" with the girl and killing her, and told him where the body was. Prosecutors played taped jailhouse conversations Smith made with his brother and others in which Smith talked of being on drugs while committing the crimes.

 

An FBI code breaker translated an encrypted letter Smith wrote his sibling saying he had left Carlie's clothes and backpack in four trash bins.

 

Also, DNA analysis connected him to a semen stain on Carlie's shirt, and strands of hair from Smith's vehicle were found to match the girl's hair.

 

Before Carlie's slaying, Smith had been arrested at least 13 times since 1993, mostly on drug offenses. In one case, he was charged with kidnapping a 20-year-old woman, but was acquitted. He pleaded no contest in another case in which a woman said he hit her in the face with a motorcycle helmet. He was sentenced to 60 days in jail. He also served 17 months in prison on drug possession and fraud charges.

 

After the slaying, Rep. Katherine Harris (news, bio, voting record), R-Fla., introduced legislation, named Carlie's Law, that would expand the reasons that could get a convicted criminal on federal probation sent back to prison. A version limited to sex offenders ultimately passed. Smith had not been convicted of sex offenses before Carlie's death.

 

Earlier this year, following the slaying of another Florida girl, allegedly by a convicted sex offender, Florida passed a law establishing a mandatory sentence of 25 years to life behind bars for people convicted of certain sex crimes against children 11 and younger, with lifetime tracking by satellite after they are freed." (this little law brings the children of Florida one step closer to some security)

 

 

This peice of shit tried to say it wasn't his fault that he kidnapped, raped and murdered this child because he was drunk...Just how much fuckin alcohol would make a person do something like this???

They had video of him grabbing the girl that his lawyer tried to get suppressed as too prejudical, damn right it was because it proved he was the scum who took her, right out in public at a gas station.

I see this one ending up as a death penalty case...lock and load.

[RoyalOrleans]

Goddamn.

 

I would love to plant a bullet in this cocksucker's head.

[Outlaw2747]

Can we make him suffer painfully first? The moment he raped girls was the moment he relenquished his identity as a human being.

[RoyalOrleans]

Can we make him suffer painfully first? The moment he raped girls was the moment he relenquished his identity as a human being.

 

I have a revolver.

 

1. I will load one round furthest away from the hammer.

 

2. I will continue to click until the gun discharges.

 

3. Between every click, I'll kick him in the groin.

 

4. Before the final click, the discharge, I will beat him until he's barely conscious.

 

5. Spit on him several times, call him names like "sick motherfucker".

 

6. Discharge the revolver.

 

7. Go home and slam some beer.

 

That sick, twisted, no good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, bloodsucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-assed, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?

[Lethalfind]

They had a recording of this peice of shit talking to his Mother on the phone about how he didn't do this...he was fuckin whining and of course his wonderful Mother blamed what he had done on Drugs...

 

Personally, I would like to have him tied down in front of me, I would like to put a bullet in his ankle, working my way slowly up his torsoe, until I got to his crotch. I would LOVE to blow his balls off, but only after knee capping him.

Then I would like to strap him to an ant hill to be eaten alive, whatever was left of him...

[slip_knot]

Lethal says:

 

"SARASOTA, Fla. - A mechanic with a long criminal record was convicted Thursday of kidnapping, raping and strangling an 11-year-old girl.

 

Isn't it awful , that we have to wait for scum like this to pounce before anything gets done to protect society from him ?

 

We,ve all read those books like "Fahrenheit " etc, where the state is so intrusive everybody gets pissed off. But I believe that some people should be dealt with before they commit crime. Its an awful concept I know. But think about the benefits. A drastic reduction in murder,rape, robbery etc. Psychopaths can easily be identified from a young age. Just ask anyone who works at junior school.

[Jhony5]

Lethal says:

 

"SARASOTA, Fla. - A mechanic with a long criminal record was convicted Thursday of kidnapping, raping and strangling an 11-year-old girl.

 

Isn't it awful , that we have to wait for scum like this to pounce before anything gets done to protect society from him ?

 

We,ve all read those books like "Fahrenheit " etc, where the state is so intrusive everybody gets pissed off. But I believe that some people should be dealt with before they commit crime. Its an awful concept I know. But think about the benefits. A drastic reduction in murder,rape, robbery etc. Psychopaths can easily be identified from a young age. Just ask anyone who works at junior school.

 

 

Your ideas are kinda jacked up fella. Correct me if i'm wrong, what your saying is that the federal/state government should use profiling to lock up sex offenders and murderers before they commit a crime. The statistics show a far better way to deal with sex offeders. Most sex offeders that commit murder, have been convicted of sex crimes before, if not many times. When they reoffend they consider the reason for their capture and conviction to be that they left a witness, the victim. So inevitabley they understand murder to be the way to circumvent conviction. Sex crimes vary greatly in severity. These crimes range from circumstancial date rape to bizzarre crimes like men whom snatch panties off women while they walk down the street. Child molesters often get very little time served when their crime has an abscense of violence. Like any sexual fantasy, satiating it will only lead to an inevitable escalation. At first a sexual offeder will be wholely satisfied with just touching a child, then the fantasy perpetuates into an increased tempo.

 

Any man/woman being caught just once of sex crimes, especialy when children are involved, should have his right to exist in our society forfeited. The ACLU actualy fights for the rights of sex offenders on the basis of rehabilatation. It has long been shown that sex offenders cannot be rehabed, only restrained. Its our fault as Americans for not demanding our legislative leaders to draw out a zero tolerance policy. We are all distracted by many other issues such as the war on terror, the war on drugs, and gay marraige.