Registered Sex Offender Sentenced Thursday

Jefferson Co., Mo. (KFMO) - A 46-year-old High Ridge man, Patrick Mayberry, is facing 17 years in prison after being sentenced Thursday in U. S. District Court in St. Louis.

Mayberry told investigators he’d received over $2,000 by selling child pornography he’d obtained on the dark web. Mayberry had multiple videos containing child sexual abuse material in his MEGA cloud storage account.

The investigation began with a CyberTipline report to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) indicating Mayberry had uploaded child sexual abuse material to his Google account. Mayberry pled guilty in November to one count of possession of child pornography as a prior offender. Mayberry is a registered sex offender and was on probation at the time of the offense.

He was convicted of one count of failure to register as a sex offender in 2021 in Jefferson County Circuit Court in Missouri. In 2008, he was convicted of one count of attempting to procure child pornography. In 2003, he was convicted of second degree rape of a victim under the age of 16 in Oklahoma.