Serial Child Rapist Found Guilty of Assaulting Two More Victims
September 27, 2024

Anthony M. Brewer Now Faces Multiple, Consecutive Life Sentences

ST. LOUIS, MO (September 27, 2024) — A jury found Anthony M. Brewer, 54, 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.


On July 18, 2019, child abuse investigators with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department received a referral 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 Brewer’s 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 dating her mother. After his arrest the child told her mother Brewer had touched her inappropriately.


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


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

 

“Brewer is a serial child rapist,” said Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore. “The damage he has done to these children cannot be undone. But as a result of  the dogged work of our prosecution team, investigators and victim advocates, we are gratified to have gotten justice for two of his latest victims.”


Brewer is now facing multiple consecutive life sentences. He will be sentenced on November 18, 2024.

 

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For Immediate Release

For more information contact:

Amber Raub

Public Information Officer

St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office

rauba@stlouiscao.org

314-589-6233 (office)

314-312-9912 (cell)

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