Former Principal Sentenced to 61 Months for Child Exploitation Material

Jeremy Peter Williams, the former principal of Rainier Junior/Senior High School in Rainier, Oregon, was sentenced to more than five years in prison on Tuesday for possessing and sharing child sexual abuse material. The 50-year-old resident of Longview, Washington, received 61 months behind bars in Cowlitz County Superior Court, following a guilty plea to three felony counts related to explicit images of minors.

Williams had led the school, which serves about 800 students and spans the Oregon-Washington border, since 2022. He was placed on paid administrative leave by the Rainier School District in September 2025 after making public comments regarding the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk earlier that month. Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on September 9, 2025. The district confirmed the leave in a letter to the community but did not disclose the exact nature of Williams's remarks.

The investigation into Williams began in August 2025, when the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children alerted the Cowlitz County Sheriff's Office to tips from social media platforms, including...