A Clark County judge sentenced a 23-year-old Vancouver man on Monday, October 19, 2026, to prison for attempting to solicit sex from teenage girls and later trying to kidnap a 5-year-old girl, closing out a case that stretched back more than a year through multiple rounds of charges. Alexander John Rietbrock pleaded guilty in September to a reduced set of charges after originally facing a broader list of allegations.
According to The Columbian, Rietbrock pleaded guilty on Sept. 29 in Clark County Superior Court to amended charges of second-degree attempted kidnapping, luring, attempted commercial sex abuse of a minor, and first-degree dealing in depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. The outlet's headline describes his punishment as more than 13 years in prison, while the body of its report says a judge sentenced him Monday to about 13 years — the two descriptions were not reconciled in the available reporting.
A Pattern That Began With Teen Solicitation
The case centers on Rietbrock trying to solicit sex from two teenage girls before later attempting to kidnap a 5-year-old girl, the Columbian reports. A search-result snippet from KGW separately describes Rietbrock as accused of soliciting sex from three teenage girls, a detail that conflicts with the Columbian's account of two and could not be independently resolved.
Court involvement in the case dates back to June 30, 2025, when Rietbrock, then 22, appeared in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of two counts of luring a minor and one count of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes. That earlier court appearance came roughly five days after the alleged attempt to kidnap the young girl.
Allegations Involving a Young Child in a Vancouver Yard
The attempted kidnapping allegation stems from an incident that KPTV reported in detail last year, describing Rietbrock as pulling up outside a Vancouver home on June 25, 2025, while a 5-year-old girl and her sister were playing in their yard. KPTV's report at the time came after Rietbrock pleaded not guilty to the initial charges tied to that incident.
The amended charges Rietbrock pleaded guilty to in September included first-degree dealing in depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
What the Guilty Plea Covered
The amended charges Rietbrock pleaded guilty to span several distinct statutory categories, reflecting the range of conduct alleged across more than a year of proceedings. Washington's dealing-in-depictions statute, under Chapter 9.68a RCW, outlines criminal liability for a person 18 or older who knowingly develops, duplicates, publishes, prints, disseminates, exchanges, finances or attempts such conduct involving depictions of a minor, according to the statute's text as published by the Washington State Legislature.
A related provision, RCW 9.68a.101, addresses promoting commercial sexual abuse of a minor, making it a crime to knowingly advance commercial sexual abuse or a sexually explicit act involving a minor, or to profit from a minor's involvement in such conduct, per the Washington State Legislature. Rietbrock pleaded guilty to attempted commercial sex abuse of a minor.
