Patrick Mayberry, 46, of High Ridge has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for selling child pornography. He previously admitted to selling the images while he was on probation for failing to register as a sex offender, the U.S. District Attorney’s Office reported.
Mayberry was convicted for failing to register as a sex offender in 2021 in Jefferson County, and in 2008, he was convicted of one count of attempting to procure child pornography for seeking nude photographs of a 9-year-old. In 2003, he was convicted of second-degree rape of a victim younger than 16 in Oklahoma, according to the U.S. District Attorney’s Office.
Mayberry pleaded guilty plea to the most recent child pornography charge, and on April 3, U.S. District Judge Catherine D. Perry sentenced Mayberry to the 17-year sentence for possession of child pornography as a prior offender.
According Mayberry’s plea agreement, authorities were alerted on Aug. 5, 2023, through a cyber tipline report to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that Mayberry had uploaded 88 files containing child pornography to his Google account.
Investigators interviewed him on Dec. 7, 2023, and he admitted to selling the videos to more than one person and said he received more than $2,000 by selling child porn videos he had stored on a cloud-storage account, the plea agreement said.
Mayberry was convicted on Dec. 9, 2021, in Jefferson County for failing to register as a sex offender due to the offense in Oklahoma. He was sentenced to three years in prison, but the sentence was suspended and he was placed on five years’ probation, according to the plea agreement.
In February 2003, Mayberry was convicted of second-degree rape of a victim younger than 16 in Tulsa County, Okla. He was sentenced to five years in prison, but the sentence was suspended and he was placed on five years’ probation, the report said.
However, his probation was revoked, and he was sentenced to five years in prison, according to the agreement.
While Mayberry was in prison, he wrote letters to a former prison mate between June 22, 2005, and Sept. 15, 2005, requesting pornographic pictures of a young girl. He was convicted on May 15, 2008, of attempting to procure child pornography and was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $500, the guilty plea agreement said.
The St. Louis County Police and the FBI investigated the most recent case, and assistant U.S. Attorney Jillian Anderson prosecuted the case.
The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Department of Justice Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute people who exploit children via the internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, visit justice.gov/psc.