Continuing to make headlines, Susan Schorpen, who is back in the news again.
Carlie Brucia’s mother arrested on drug, prostitution charges
HERALD STAFF REPORT
MANATEE – Three months after her 11-year-old daughter’s killer was sentenced to death, Susan Schorpen is once again in jail on solicitation and drug charges, according to a sheriff’s office probable cause affidavit.
While conducting an undercover prostitution sting Tuesday night in the 6500 block of Tamiami Trail, Schorpen, who is listed as homeless, offered sexual acts in return for $20. She was also found to be in possession of drug paraphanelia, according to the affidavit.
Schorpen’s daughter, Carlie Jane Brucia, 11, was kidnapped, raped and killed by Joseph Smith in February 2004.
In March, Smith was sentenced to death. At the time of his sentencing, Schorpen was incarcerated in the Pinellas County jail on prostitution and drug charges.
Schorpen is scheduled to appear in court on July 27, according to the affidavit. She has a $2,000 bond, according to jail officials.
The Leopard Syndrome
What is the Leopard Syndrome and how does it effect Susan Schorpen? Well I wrote about how it was going to be hard for Susan to turn her life around, I did so on the day she was released from jail May 30, 2006. I knew that it would be difficult for Susan to change her own ways. I did outline a plan for her to help her with her recovery. The plan is outlined in the preceding link. I am pretty confident that Susan read that plan as it was read by Louise who said that Susan was there with her at the time. Had Susan put any effort into that plan she would not be in jail today.
I took a firm and hard stance early on that Susan had failed Carlie way before she was ever abducted. The entire lifespan of Carlie Brucia was filled with nothing but police calls and drug use for all of the years Carlie was growing up. A leopard can not change their spots and Susan can not change her ways. So yes as a qualified expert in the Leopard Syndrome, Susan has it in my opinion.
Carlie has always been the main focus I have had on this case. I know since the first time I watched the abduction on tape by Joseph Smith, that she did not protest, pull away, or fight, kick or scream. She went along willingly, I have watched this frame by frame, and it not one single frame did she appear upset. She looks like she did recognize Smith as many people have speculated that she indeed knew Smith as an acquaintance of her mothers. While many theories have been put forth about a possible drug connection, Susan has done nothing to set the record straight. Whether or not Susan knew Smith as Orlando Salinas reported early on for Fox news, does not matter or is not the focal point of this entry. What is is just how Susan failed Carlie, she failed he for all of her years on earth and now continues to fail Carlie after she is gone.
Susan BTW has a son, she can not be helping Leif out that much while she is busy turning tricks in between her getting geeked on crack. Well she did lose custody of her son as reported here for failing drug tests.
Susan has failed in so many ways for so long that I am not going to attempt to count.
Discussion is open to how parents fail their children (more specifically how Susan failed Carlie), wrong decisions people make that are costly and how to prevent these things that happened to Carlie from happening to another child.
July 2, 2006 at 8:43 am
Does anyone know who is taking care of her son or who has custody? I am concerned and I hope he is distanced and Sue does not have visitation or at least until she can demonstrate she is fitting to be a positive influence in the boys life.
July 5, 2006 at 12:01 pm
I would like to assure all the readers that Leif, Carlie’s little brother, is in good hands. He is residing with his father and is doing extremely well. His father is doing the best he can to be the best dad possible. Leif has a lot of great people in his life. Sue IS NOT in Leif’s life and is court ordered to complete some classes and after that may have supervised visitation with a court appointed official.
I have no comment on Sue…just makes me angry and sad. She has had her chances that is for sure. No way can it be blamed on the loss of Carlie…I guess the Leopard Syndrome sums it up.
July 27, 2006 at 4:54 pm
Has anyone heard what happened in court today?
July 28, 2006 at 12:06 pm
Yes….but why do you care?
July 28, 2006 at 2:07 pm
Steve,
If you’re not going to print my entire comment then please don’t print my comments at all. It was there one minute then changed a while later.
July 29, 2006 at 11:17 am
Louise, are you still her friend? Do you think a trial will be better than the plea deal? At least she has three hots and a cot now and doesn’t have to do what some john tells her. Find peace Sue, you deserve it find it before your lifestyle kills you.
July 31, 2006 at 12:35 pm
To Just Curious,
Yes. Contrary to so many saying I “got what was coming” to me, Susan has never done anything to me or taken anything from me.
And what decisions she makes about her case is her business, not mine, so what I think “will be better” is irrelevent.
I hope she can find peace too and I continue to pray for her. Fortunately, God hasn’t given up on her either.
July 31, 2006 at 7:10 pm
You’re right Louise what we think doesn’t matter. I do hope she finds peace. I was in no way trying to put her down enough people are doing that. I’m glad to hear she still has friends because she needs someone to help build her up ,not put her down. If you speak to her please tell her there are people who are on her side. Not everyone wants to see her hurt. I think what she has gone through is a hell on earth that would kill someone less strong. I am waiting on the day she proves all the naysayers wrong! With Gods grace may that day come soon.
August 1, 2006 at 11:15 am
Ditto! I’m grateful and amazed that there is finally someone else out there that still has faith. Thank you. And she will be happy to hear that too. Keep the faith!
August 4, 2006 at 12:34 am
Louise there is no need to thank me. Susan needs to hear from people who support her, people who believe in her and know she can overcome what ever obstacles placed in her path. It’s a shame there isn’t a positive web site for her a place where she could come for words of understanding and encourgement. What she has done in the past is not important what she does everyday from now on is. She can do it but it’s not easy to do alone. It is you who deserve the thanks for being there and being her friend. I shall keep the faith you can count on that and so can Susan. With Gods help she can beat this one day at a time.
August 4, 2006 at 2:11 pm
Sorry Steve I couldnt resist!
August 4, 2006 at 6:08 pm
Steve,
This is getting out of control and is very damaging.These folks DO NOT know me and don’t know what they’re talking about. They do not seem to like it that Susan has loving, supportive and hopeful people in her corner. They don’t want her to get better apparently. Maybe she knows too much about them…I don’t know and I don’t want to know. I have NEVER done what I am accused of and they have nothing to substantiate it with. They THINK they know me…but they don’t and they hide behind some silly name.
Someone says something good and supportive and they get verbally and emotionally cut to shreds. It doesn’t make sense. These people need to get a life of love and kindness and start living it. The karma does come back and you get what you give. There sure seem to be some evil souls out there. I’m sorry for Susan that I ever found this site. I think you need to do something before someone gets hurt.
August 4, 2006 at 6:12 pm
To “Just Curious”…maybe we start our own site that regulates this kind of crap from hurting people. I understand that there is something started in Congress that’s working on such a thing. I hope that Steve sees what damage, slander and potential liability is taking place. Sorry Steve…I’m sure you meant well but didn’t mean for things to end up so ugly from so many.
To “Just Curious” again, maybe we do start a site, like you said, that offers support to Susan and women like her as well as resources, follow-up and people that won’t stab her in the back “anonymously”.
August 4, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Louise,
I am put in a catch-22 situation, damned if I do and damned if I do not. I have been accused by yourself of moderating comments and then you suggest that I do so.
There is a new comment system in place, it is based on “Ajax” that processes comments on the fly, it does however not work quite as it is suppose to. Comments are suppose to appear on the fly without having to refresh your browser(ie when it swirls around your comment is suppose to appear at the same time), that however is not the case. The comment system on the NVFC also changed within the past week, the old system seemed to think that I was spamming my own website. This is how software works, it is not always perfect. My comments were being flagged and that bugged to no end.
One of the main reasons I went with the “Ajax” system was because it does process comments on the fly, I do not have time to read every comment so if there is an offending comment please point it out. The above comment has been edited.
August 5, 2006 at 10:57 am
Steve,
10175 is most inaccurate, hateful and inappropriate.
Who are these angry, viscious people?
Please remove it.
Thanks.
August 5, 2006 at 3:34 pm
Louise,
Comment #10175, has been removed. I did not even see that comment. With so many comments and different entries, I do not have time to read through each and every single comment.
What you have to understand, I do not have time to moderate comments, I have software in place that does this for me, but that is a learning process for the software to recognize what cooments should go to spam, unfortunately it is easy to train to delete spam, because there is a true signature that accompanies most spam and that is the presence of links back to porn sites or sites selling things from ringtones to Viagra.
A comment like Comment #10175 will slip under the radar every time. Here is why, there was no profanity used in that comment. the F*** word will flag for moderation as well as many other offending words. Crack will not be added to offending words because that word can be used many ways and if i added crack as an offending word, then a comment saying that someone slipped through the cracks would trigger a negative response.
As for Bin Ladden, I am not going to start adding names like that to the list as I would just have people then using Castro or Hitler and it would be a guessing game of who they might use next.
Welcome to the Internet, people from all over the world hit my site, I use to easily have more than 25,000 hits a day, I stopped writing as a way to curb this amount of traffic.
I happened to not even be in the country when Comment #10175 was made, but with the Internet being full of so many people worldwide, I have much less than a half a percent of comments that are negative, the vast majority are positive comments.
I do not even look at my comments that get marked for spam anymore, I just hit the automatic delete. One spam comment alone has over a hundred links contained within that comment.
This goes for anyone, if a comment is seen as negative, please just notify me and I will read that comment, if I find that it indeed is negative, they will be deleted.
August 5, 2006 at 7:54 pm
Louise, I think that sounds like a good Idea. A place were anyone with problems can come and not be judged. But talk to someone who is willing to listen and try to help. Do you know how to do it? I have very little knowledge when it comes to computers. I do have time to devote to such an undertaking.
Steve I understand you receive way to many comments to read everyone before it post. There is just such negativity on every page you do about Susan. It doesn’t do any good to keep kicking someone when they are down. Susan could have been the best Mother in the world and this tragedy could have still occurred. Smith is the animal that did it not Susan. Another thing even if they had been best friends (which I’m sure they weren’t) it wouldn’t have given him the right to do what he did.
You have all told Susan how you feel, why not try to encourage her. I think she could help others once she helps herself. Who better to talk to young girls in danger of becoming a statistic than Susan. I know she has to help herself first but when you say such hurtful things it gives her an excuse to fall back down. You just don’t know how words can hurt someone in a fragile state of mind.
Just for your information I don’t know Louise and I have never seen crack except on TV. But I have seen what it can do to people. It takes a strong willed person with good support to stay away from it. I think Susan can be one of those people.
August 6, 2006 at 7:02 pm
For “Just Curious”…I’m giving you a standing ovation and a huge hug right now…from me and from Susan because she would certainly want to thank you personally for saying the beautiful and smart and thoughtful things you said for her and about her. Anybody can beat somebody when they are down. It takes a humanitarian…a caring human being to not give up on someone that’s hurting, someone that doesn’t even know what’s for their own good. The prison system sets people up to come out and fail…and then return there. After all…it is a business. Like when people get out of a rehab there is a halfway house they can stay in to ease back in…maybe there is or should be a similar thing when people get out of jail so that they are less likely to return.
August 6, 2006 at 7:33 pm
The above comment was from me, not meant to be signed in as “anonymous”. Not quite sure how that happened. Just wanted to clarify. Thanks.
August 8, 2006 at 8:09 am
Just wanted to know if there was a way to write Sue? what county jail is she in? and anyone know how long she will be there?
August 8, 2006 at 8:31 pm
She’s at the Manatee County Jail.
Susan Schorpen
(Call for her arrest number and put it here)
14470 Harlee Road
Palmetto, FL 34221
You will need to call the jail at (941) 747-3011 Ext. 2851
She is to be there almost thru the end of September. I’m sure she’ll be glad to hear from you.
August 10, 2006 at 12:07 pm
Thank You!!!
August 29, 2007 at 5:39 pm
It’s sad that Carlie’s death is or was the result of her mother’s lifestyle choices. But, from the world’s view looking in she was a beautiful young girl who didn’t deserve one bit of what she received. It almost makes you want to say to her mom “how dare you, how dare you bring a child into this world and not protect her with all of your ability”. To continue with what she was doing after the death of her child is inexcusable. There is not greater loss than that of a child so for her to not be affected by it enough to change speaks volumes. I pray for all kids living a life like that.
August 29, 2007 at 5:46 pm
I should clarify that I am not stating her death was directly because of her mom. I simply meant that because of her mother’s choices in life and the people she associated with could have led to her demise. I am only assuming and not making a factual statement. Thanks for understanding.