ST. LOUIS, MO (November 27, 2024) — Convicted child rapist Anthony Morris Brewer, 54, was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences without parole for perpetrating sex crimes against two young children. The life sentences will run consecutively with a 15-year sentence for child molestation.

In September, a jury found Brewer guilty of two counts of statutory rape, two counts of statutory sodomy and one count of child molestation in two separate incidents involving two young girls in the city’s College Hill neighborhood over the course of several years, starting in 2017.

Child abuse investigators with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department received a referral in July of 2019 concerning a 9-year-old victim who told family members that she had been sexually abused by Brewer starting when she was seven years old. In 2021, a warrant was issued for his arrest, charging him with statutory sodomy. Brewer was arrested on April 26, 2022. At the time he was living with a second seven-year-old victim and her mother. After his arrest, the child told her mother that Brewer had touched her inappropriately.

Brewer has prior convictions in Illinois for criminal sexual assault on a victim younger than 13 years old and for aggravated sexual abuse and aggravated kidnapping of a 10-year-old.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant Circuit Attorney Sherry Wolk and Assistant Circuit Attorney and Special Victim Unit Team Leader Jeremy Crowley.

Brewer’s case number is 2422-CR01342.