Reply #83: Thursday, November 20, 2003 [View All]

[Booberdawg]

Parents formally charged in death of 10-year-old

By Peggy Harris
Associated Press writer

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — The parents of a 10-year-old Clarksville girl who was found dead, chained to her bed in the family’s burned out home, were formally charged Wednesday in the girl’s death.

Lloyd Holt, 32, and Teresa Dick, 31, were each charged with manslaughter and first-degree false imprisonment, both felonies, said Johnson County Prosecutor David Gibbons.

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Henry Holt said a special education teacher at the school had notified the state Human Services Department of concerns with Molly’s home life. He also said his son, Lloyd, told him after the bond hearing that Teresa was chaining the girl to the bed and that he didn’t know about this because he went to bed early and got up in the middle of the night to work at a Tyson Foods plant.

Parents formally charged in death of 10-year-old