EL DORADO, Kan. (KSNW) -- A registered sex offender arrested Friday in Butler County has made his first appearance on new charges in Butler County District Court.

Peter Ferley, 44, of El Dorado, made his first appearance in court Monday afternoon via teleconference. He was formally charged with 31counts of sexual exploitation of a child; possess media of child under the age of 18.

According to court records, Ferley is accused of possessing at least 31 images or videos of child pornography on dates between July 2024 and June 2025. At the time of the arrest, Ferley was a registered sex offender, having pled guilty to attempted sexual exploitation of a child in 2012.

He was sentenced later that year and discharged from community corrections in November 2014, according to records from the K

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