Corbett Lloyd Craig spent years using social media to coerce two young girls into sending him sexually explicit images, and a federal judge just handed the 42-year-old Goldendale man 27 years in prison for it, according to federal law enforcement. It is the second time the courts have caught up with him.
Craig pleaded guilty to two counts of enticement and attempted enticement of a child and one count of possession of child sexual abuse images. The case came out of an investigation by ICE Homeland Security Investigations in Seattle and the Klickitat County Sheriff’s Department, which ended with a 27-year prison term and lifetime supervised release. A judge handed down the sentence June 26.
The details provided by federal officials are grim and shocking. They also add to a string of federal child exploitation cases surfacing across Washington, and they show a predator who had already been through the system once before.
Years of online coercion
Acting ICE Director David J. Venturella described how Craig operated.
“Corbett Lloyd Craig, a 42-year-old man, used social media between early 2022 and his arrest in June 2025 to coerce two girls into providing him with sexually explicit videos and images. He enticed one of the children by offering her money via gift cards and online payments. This is an adult who knew the girls were just kids, but he still intended to elicit sexual material from them. I’m incredibly proud of the Homeland Security Investigations special agents who invested their time and effort into this case to bring some measure of justice to these young girls and their families,” Venturella said in a statement.
When law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at Craig’s home, they say they found thousands of additional files of child sex abuse material.
Not his first conviction
District Court Judge Mary Katherine Dimke pointed to Craig’s history of the same conduct as an aggravating factor that supported the length of his sentence.
In 2017, Craig was convicted in Clackamas County Superior Court in Oregon of encouraging child abuse in the second degree, sexual abuse in the third degree, and contributing to the sexual delinquency of a child. Federal investigators found images from that earlier case on his computer, along with a child he had personally victimized.
Acting HSI Seattle Special Agent in Charge April Miller said the sentence takes a known danger off the street.
“Mr. Craig was fully aware that his actions were not just extremely immoral, but illegal as well. This sentence will keep this predator off the streets and keep our children safer. HSI will continue to investigate these crimes against children. We owe our communities nothing less,” Miller stated.
Washington’s run of child exploitation cases
The case is one of several federal child exploitation prosecutions moving through Washington courts. Local parents have also raised alarms over strangers approaching children in public spaces, and the state has seen a steady stream of similar sentencings, including a Marysville registered sex offender sent to prison this spring for possessing child abuse images.
HSI Seattle investigated the case with help from the Klickitat County Sheriff’s Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Murphy prosecuted it.
Craig is 42. With a 27-year sentence and lifetime supervision, the earliest he walks free he will be pushing 70. For the two girls he targeted, and the families federal agents say he left behind, that is the closest thing to justice the courts can offer.
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