ST. LOUIS – A registered sex offender from High Ridge, Missouri, appeared in federal court on Thursday and was sentenced for selling child pornography online.
Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri said Patrick Mayberry, 46, pleaded guilty in November 2024 to one count of possession of child pornography as a prior offender.
Mayberry admitted receiving more than $2,000 by selling child sexual abuse material that he’d obtained on the dark web. He kept multiple videos of the illicit content on his Google MEGA cloud-storage account.
The investigation began after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received an online tip that Mayberry had uploaded CSAM to the account.
Mayberry was on probation at the time of this offense. He was convicted in 2021 of one count of failure to register as a sex offender with the Jefferson County Circuit Court. In 2008, Mayberry was convicted on one count of attempting to procure child pornography for seeking nude photos of a 9-year-old. And in 2003, he was convicted in Oklahoma of second-degree rape of a victim under 16.
A U.S. District Court judge sentenced Mayberry to 17 years in federal prison.