Patrick Mayberry, 45, of High Ridge has admitted to selling child pornography while he was on probation for failing to register as a sex offender. Mayberry had been convicted of raping a victim younger than 16 and trying to procure child porn while in prison, the U.S. District Attorney’s Office reported.
On Nov. 19, Mayberry pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography as a prior offender. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 13, according to court documents.
The charge is punishable by a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison and a maximum of 20 years and a fine of up to $250,000, the U.S. District Attorney’s Office reported.
According to the Mayberry’s guilty plea, authorities were alerted on Aug. 5, 2023, through a cyber tipline report to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) 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 pornography 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 guilty 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 guilty plea agreement 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However, his probation was revoked, and he was sentenced to five years in prison, according to the agreement.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. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jillian Anderson is prosecuting 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 individuals 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.