Matawan Man, 50, Admits to Sexting With Girl, 13

MATAWAN, NJ - On Friday, a Matawan man admitted in federal court to using his e-mail and instant messaging accounts to send nude photos back and forth with a 13-year-old girl, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.

Matthew Kaminsky, 50, of Matawan, 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.

Patch wrote about Kaminsky when he was first arrested, in April of last year: As we reported at the time, he 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, federal authorites charged.

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.

Kaminsky is facing 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.