'Dangerous' child sex offender escapes from St. Louis County hospital on foot

A convicted child sex offender who police said should be considered dangerous escaped from a St.

A convicted child sex offender who police said should be considered dangerous escaped from a St. Louis County, Missouri, hospital on foot early Thursday morning.

Tommy Wayne Boyd, 45, a prisoner at Potosi Correctional Facility, was last seen around 3:45 a.m. Thursday by personnel at Mercy Hospital South, the St. Louis County Police Department said in a Facebook post.  

Officers from the Affton Southwest Precinct were alerted around 4:30 a.m. that he had fled the building.

Boyd was being guarded by two Missouri Department of Corrections officers when he escaped, a hospital spokesperson said in a statement.

"There was no physical confrontation, no one was hurt and video surveillance shows the escapee leaving the hospital," the statement said. "While there is no evidence he is still on the hospital campus, to ensure the safety of everyone, we are conducting a complete search of all our buildings."