GUILTY LA - M.L. Lloyd, 8, beaten to death, Reserve, 1 April 2008

[BeanE]

Couple no-show for trial in death of boy
Published: Aug. 16, 2011 at 11:50 AM
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011...eath-of-boy/UPI-31971313509806/#ixzz1VUONp03T

Trial in murder of 8-year-old is postponed as search for parent-defendants continues
Published: Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 4:42 PM
Updated: Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 5:21 PM
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/08/murder_trial_postponed_as_sear.html

 

[pinkfly]

wow....when I first read about this case I wondered if this might set a precedence in cases where actions by a parent causes the disease to get worse. Then I read more and realized there was much more to this case. And now that the parents are missing and the younger 2 have been adopted away I am really shocked by how complex this case really has gotten. Packing to leave for 10 day vacation but will be trying to catch and then keep up. Little M looks sweet in that picture, and I imagine things did get rowdy in a house with so many children. Glad you are on this one BeanE

 

[oceanblueeyes]

Posted: Apr 14, 2012 10:47 AM EDT Updated: Apr 14, 2012 11:05 AM EDT

Tifton, GA - An accused killer, on the run from child murder charges in Louisiana, is in the Tift County jail.

Errol Victor was featured on Lifetime Network's America's Most Wanted program last night, and within minutes, tips poured in from the Tifton area.

Law officers captured him and we're working on details of his arrest.

Victor is wanted for the torture and beating death of his wife's eight year old son in 2008.

Officers tell us Victor emersed himself in the religious community in Tifton and befriended several elderly church members.

Here's his background on America's Most Wanted.

http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=79797

Photo source: America's Most Wanted


http://www.walb.com/story/17451063/americas-most-wanted-caught-in-tifton

 

[fran]

I saw this show last night! I'm glad they caught the guy. He is NOT nice. Horrible man for what he's alleged to have done to that child.

Now,............. the question is, where is his wife?

fran

 

[Fairy1]

I saw this show last night! I'm glad they caught the guy. He is NOT nice. Horrible man for what he's alleged to have done to that child.

Now,............. the question is, where is his wife?

fran

According to the AMW update, they got her too.

 

[JDB]

And this my friends is why I am so glad Lifetime picked this show up after Fox cancelled it.

 

[fran]

Thanks Fairy.

I'm still trying to verify the wife was also captured with the husband. I know AMW says that on the headline, but I can't get to the story when I click the link on their site. The news article talks about the husband and said 'he' was captured, but not a mention of her. They also talk about 'he' blended in with the religious group, but still didn't mention 'her.'

curious,
JMHO
fran

 

[oceanblueeyes]

Thanks Fairy.

I'm still trying to verify the wife was also captured with the husband. I know AMW says that on the headline, but I can't get to the story when I click the link on their site. The news article talks about the husband and said 'he' was captured, but not a mention of her. They also talk about 'he' blended in with the religious group, but still didn't mention 'her.'

curious,
JMHO
fran

Here ya go, Fran. Thank goodness they got both of them.

Posted: Apr 14, 2012 10:47 AM EDT Updated: Apr 14, 2012 5:58 PM EDT

By Gianna Caserta - bio | email

TIFTON, GA -
A Louisiana couple charged with murdering a child is in the Tift County Jail. Errol Victor and wife Tonya were arrested just hours after they were featured on America's Most Wanted.

Within minutes of the broadcast airing Friday night on the Lifetime Network, tips poured in from the Tifton area.

Rubbie Williams still cant believe the intelligent, religious couple she let live in her trailer behind her home, turned out to be two accused killers who were on the run.

"I just cant believe that people so nice could do such a crime like that," says Rubbie Williams.

Errol and Tonya Victor were charged with murder in the 2008 beating death of Tonya's 8-year-old son, M.L. Lloyd III.

"They had gotten a bond in New Orleans, went on the run, America's Most Wanted picked up the story, aired it last night, and the marshal service here in Albany, was notified," Deputy Rodger Hormell, U.S. Marshall Service.

Within minutes after the story airing, the AMW hotline began receiving calls from South Georgia with information that the couple was living in Tifton.

"Every couple of weeks, they would move, from one house to another, mooching off the community, telling people that they were preacher and a preacher's wife, and that they were going to open up a church in the area," says Hormell.

That is how they convinced Rubbie Williams to let them stay in her trailer.

"They took advantage of everybody they came in contact with, and they came in contact with a lot of people that I know, so they did take advantage of holding the word of God up, for a shield for them," says Williams.

"Every person they stayed with was generally a good Christian elderly woman in the community, who was just trying to do something nice for a fellow Christian, and he was taking advantage of the situation," says Hormell.

Williams says she cant bare to think of what might have happened, she's just happy they are finally behind bars.

The U.S Marshall Service, with the assistance of the Tifton Police Department, Tift County Sheriff's Officer, and Georgia State Patrol, helped capture the fugitives.


http://www.walb.com/story/17451063/americas-most-wanted-caught-in-tifton

 

[bessie]

Tonya and Errol Victor Sr. were arrested in Tifton, Ga., after they were featured on an episode of the TV show "America's Most Wanted" on Friday. After the show aired, the Marshals Service received a tip that the couple was in Tifton, said Deputy U.S. Marshal Mark Gunnoe in New Orleans.

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/04/reserve_couple_arrested_in_geo.html

 

[fran]

Thank you OBE.

I'm so glad they caught these people. I doubt LE is going to fall for their ploy again. No bail!

JMHO
fran

 

[jjenny]

I just saw that episode of AMW. The alleged beating was over missing ice scream sandwich. Between the two of them they had a whole bunch of children. The little boy allegedly got beaten to death because he took an ice scream sandwich without permission. Glad they were caught.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/07/child_abuse_pediatrics_expert.html

The numerous bruises that stretched from 8-year-old M.L. Lloyd III's back, buttocks and thighs, were delivered with precision and were in no way accidental, an expert in child abuse pediatrics testified Saturday in the ongoing second-degree murder trial of Errol and Tonya Victor, the boy's mother and stepfather who are charged with his death...

The Victors, who are representing themselves despite having no formal legal training, have vigorously denied that account and say that the boy died as the result of a severe asthma attack. If convicted they face life in prison...

While the state presented some of its potentially most damaging testimony, the Victors ignored the proceedings. They huddled together, at times reading from a book and whispering together. He would laugh occasionally or smile broadly. Other times she caressed his face or rubbed his back.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/09/judge_tells_tonya_victor_you_s.html

The prosecution of Errol and Tonya Victor ended in dramatic fashion Monday when the Reserve couple was sentenced to prison for the beating death of her 8-year-old son. Even before hearing she was being sent away for 21 years, Tonya Victor started crying and yelling at state District Judge Mary Hotard Becnel - and even tried to stalk out of the courtroom. "Let me go! Let me go! Do what you got to do. I don't care." Tonya Victor yelled as two sheriff's deputies boxed her in. "You're not going to tell me I failed! I don't accept anything you say"...

Her 49-year-old husband, the dead child's stepfather who was convicted of second-degree murder, received that crime's mandatory sentence in Louisiana: life in prison without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence.

It was not the sentence itself, however, that set off Tonya Victor. It was Becnel's chastisement that the couple appeared to lack remorse for the boy's death and that she had failed to protect him from a beating at the hands of her husband.