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A child-sex offender escaped from custody early Thursday while he was getting medical treatment at Mercy Hospital South in St. Louis County.
Police are searching for Tommy Wayne Boyd, 45. He walked out of the hospital on Kennerly Road sometime around 4 a.m. Thursday.
Tommy W. Boyd
Boyd was serving a 30-year sentence for felony enticement of a child. He was convicted by a jury in Greene County in November 2007.
Boyd was in prison at the Potosi Correctional Center and was brought to Mercy South for treatment of an undisclosed illness on Wednesday.
Tommy W. Boyd, as shown on hospital surveillance video, walked out of Mercy Hospital South on Thursday morning.
Hospital staff last saw him at 3:54 a.m. Thursday. Surveillance cameras showed him walking away from the hospital wearing a black sweatshirt, black jacket and orange slippers.
He is a white man, 5-foot-7 and 154 pounds. He has balding hair and a beard.
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Boyd was supposed to be under the supervision of Department of Corrections employees.
There was no indication that he overpowered any guards or hurt anyone to escape, police said. But details of exactly how he got away weren’t released.
A spokesperson for the Department of Corrections did not immediately provide information to a reporter about the escape.
A few hours after the escape, officers from the county and Highway Patrol were peering in windows of cars parked on the hospital lot.
The Missouri Highway Patrol, which maintains the state’s sex-offender registry, said Boyd committed first-degree statutory sodomy in Springfield, Missouri, in 1996 when Boyd was 18 years old and his victim was an 11-year-old boy.
He pleaded guilty of sodomy in 1997 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, according to online court files. The 30-year sentence handed down after the jury trial in 2007 is the current sentence Boyd was serving at Potosi.
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