In Memory Of Carlie Brucia

Carlie Remembered by her Grandmother...

"She has been described as "blonde and bubbly" - Carlie was very affectionate - a great hugger - when she was in NY she loved to go to the movies with her dad, go shopping and then go out for ice cream. Her favorite ice cream was mint chocolate chip - I always had that in the house for her when she visited. When she was at our house, she would shoot baskets in the driveway with her Aunt Jeannie and play softball in the backyard with Aunt Katelyn and the rest of the family. We would have barbeques and she loved to toast marshmallows.

When we were out at Montauk, Joe and Joey built a huge bonfire and we toasted marshmallows at night while sitting along the beach

Carlie Brucia

- it is a beautiful memory - thinking of Carlie with her sticky fingers and marshmallow all around her mouth - what a cutie! She liked music - especially Jennifer Lopez (?) and knew all the words to every song on the radio - that always surprised me!

Carlie liked to help her dad out at home - especially when he had the family over for dinner, she pitched right in and helped with the serving and cleaning up - I can just picture her loading up the dishwasher. She was a very good student and voted Most Popular and Math Whiz at McIntosh Middle School."

Always In Our Hearts

Carlie's Law

Representative Katherine Harris (R-FL), with the support of Nick Lampson (D-TX) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), introduced this legislation to the US Congress. [1] Joseph Smith, was on probation at the time of Carlie's murder. The amendment to existing law is intended to toughen parole rules for sex offenders and also notify non-custodial parents when there is criminal activity near their child's home. Partly for this reason, Joseph Brucia, her father, approved of making the law in her name, although he concedes this law would not have applied to her specific case, since the charges for which Smith was on probation were not the sexual offenses this law targets. His focus was on future similar, but not identical, cases.

The bill failed to pass before the end of the 2004 session. Harris has committed to re-introduce the bill in 2005.

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