Video captures apparent abduction of Fla. girl Articles / In The News Date: Feb 03, 2004 - 05:38 PM Associated Press SARASOTA, Fla. — The FBI joined the search Tuesday for an 11-year-old girl whose apparent abduction was videotaped by a car wash surveillance camera, and the youngster's parents pleaded for her safe return. "Please release Carlie. Please give me my baby," begged Carlie Brucia's mother, Susan Schorpen. The sixth-grader was seen on videotape being led away by a man as she took a shortcut behind a closed car wash on her way home from a friend's house Sunday night. The sheriff's department is working with the FBI, state law enforcement authorities and the Center for Missing and Exploited Children. More than 100 calls from the public have come in and an unidentified company offered a $25,000 US reward for information. To enter a prayer for her Click Here "Carlie, if you can see and hear this, please know we will stop at nothing," sheriff's Maj. Kevin Gooding said at a news conference, telling the little girl to run and get help if she can. "We won't stop until we find you. Please, Carlie, don't give up." The surveillance tape showed a white man in his late 20s or early 30s approach Carlie. The blond, blue-eyed girl did not appear to know him. The man, who was wearing a mechanic's shirt with a name patch on one breast, spoke to her for a few seconds, then grabbed her by the arm and led her away. Her parents said they do not recognize the man. Gooding said efforts were being made to enhance the images from the tape in hopes of lifting more clues. The girl's father, Joe Brucia, implored anyone who might have seen anything to come forward. He said police told him they have interviewed some people, but have no prime suspect. "To the man who abducted her, you've done a considerable amount of damage," Brucia told NBC earlier Tuesday. "Please stop. Release my daughter. Let her go. With some help and some love, she can heal. Give us back our daughter." The Center for Missing and Exploited Children began distributing 16,000 flyers with Carlie's picture throughout the region, and a national hotline was set up to gather information. The family's modest home on the edge of a busy, commercial section of the city is a kilometre or so from the house where Carlie was visiting her friend. "Carlie is not the type of child who would just go off," said family friend Chessie Huber, whose six-year-old son is a playmate of Carlie's younger brother. "She's a very responsible child." This article comes from World's Largest Prayer Board Annointed.net News http://www.annointed.net/ The URL for this story is: http://www.annointed.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=557