Matawan Man Charged with Child Porn, Arrested Tuesday, Feds Say

Matawan, NJ - A Matawan man was arrested Tuesday for asking an underage girl to send him sexual images of herself via online instant messaging, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman charges.

Matthew Kaminsky, 49, of Matawan, allegedly solicited the girl, 13, to produce images of herself engaged in sexually explicit conduct, and then directed her to send the photos to him, federal prosecutors charge.

Kaminsky is charged with one count of production of images containing child pornography, and one count of receiving images containing child pornography via the Internet. He is scheduled to appear later Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lois Goodman in Trenton federal court.

Kaminsky allegedly met various underage girls through online chat applications and sent them naked pictures of himself, federal prosecutors alleged. 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 of last year, law enforcement officers located and interviewed the 13-year-old girl, and she confirmed that she had sent him nude pictures of herself at his request, prosecutors say. Federal agents said they also recovered computer equipment belonging to Kaminsky, which they said contained images and videos appearing to be of child sexual abuse.