Can I help?
I'm going to have to take a time-out or something. I just posted some photos of Carlie . . . and I'm sitting here comparing them to some school photos of my niece. It's absolutely heart-breaking FOR ME! I can't even begin to imagine the pain Carlie's parents and friends must be feeling. There must be no pain greater than losing a child.
I've never been affected more by a news story than I have this one . . . and I'm a fat, cynical, old fart whose seen just about everything.
I think it's the car wash video that hooked me so emotionally to the story . . . As innocence herself is abducted by evil himself and led away to be tortured and murdered. You could just tell in the video that Carlie had been taught to respect her elders, to believe in the goodness of man, and to know that if she was a good person good things would happen to her.
God help me, I would kill that slime-bucket without a second's hesitation were he within reach right now!
Yup, I better take a time-out.