ST. LOUIS, MO (November 19, 2024) — 22nd Circuit Court Judge Madeline Connolly sentenced Craig Wilbert, 62, to ten life sentences plus 63 years in prison for committing 22 sex offenses against children including sodomy, sexual trafficking and furnishing pornographic material. Of the ten life sentences received, two will run consecutively without eligibility of parole for 30 years served.

On January 3, 2023, police received a report of a sexual assault of a 17-year-old. The victim had recently moved into Wilbert’s house in the City’s Dutchtown neighborhood where her boyfriend and his mother also lived. Wilbert began making sexual advances toward her and sending her pornography. Wilbert offered to pay her for sex, and threatened to kick her, her boyfriend and his mother out if the victim did not have sex with him. Further investigation revealed that Wilbert had been sexually abusing the victim’s boyfriend starting when he was about 12 years old.

Wilbert was convicted of first-degree child molestation in 2010 and sentenced to eight years in the Missouri Department of Corrections. He will not be eligible for parole until he has served 30 years in prison.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant Circuit Attorneys Sydney Beecher and Kerri Davis.

Wilbert’s case number is 2322-CR00012-01.

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