TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man today admitted using his e-mail and instant messaging accounts to receive images of child sexual abuse, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
Matthew Kaminsky, 50, of Matawan, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Mary L. Cooper in Trenton federal court to an information charging him with one count of receiving child pornography.
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:
Kaminsky allegedly met various underage girls through online chat applications and sent them naked pictures of himself. In late January of 2015, over the course of several days, he began corresponding with a 13-year-old girl over an online chat application and induced her to take nude pictures of herself and to send them to him. In March 2015 law enforcement officers recovered computer equipment belonging to Kaminsky containing images and videos appearing to be of child sexual abuse. Law enforcement officers located and interviewed the 13-year-old girl Kaminsky had chatted with online in January of 2015, and she confirmed that she had chatted online with Kaminsky and had sent him nude pictures of herself at his request.
The count of receiving child pornography carries a maximum potential penalty of 20 years in prison, a minimum penalty of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and up to a lifetime of supervised release. Sentencing is scheduled for June 28, 2017.
Acting U.S. Attorney Fitzpatrick credited special agents of the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Terence S. Opiola; and inspectors of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, under the direction of Acting Inspector in Charge John Walker, Philadelphia Division, with the investigation leading to today’s plea.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Molly S. Lorber of the U.S. Attorney’s Office Criminal Division in Trenton.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
