Registered Sex Offender Admits Possessing Child Pornography

Jefferson Co., Mo. (KFMO) - A registered sex offender from Jefferson County pleaded guilty Tuesday and admitted selling child pornography online. 45-year-old Patrick Mayberry, of High Ridge, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of possession of child pornography as a prior offender.

Mayberry told investigators that he’d received over $2,000 by selling child pornography that he’d obtained on the dark web. Mayberry had multiple videos containing child sexual abuse material in his MEGA cloud-storage account. Authorities were alerted by 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. Mayberry was on probation at the time of the offense.

In 2003, Mayberry was convicted of second-degree rape – victim under age 16 in Oklahoma. In 2008, he was convicted of one count of attempting to procure child pornography for seeking nude photographs of a nine-year-old. In 2021 in Jefferson County Circuit Court in Missouri, Mayberry was convicted of one count of failure to register as a sex offender.

Mayberry is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 13, 2025. The charge is punishable by a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum of 20 years, a $250,000 fine, or both.