Man Who Forced NJ Teen To Send Nude Images Faces 24-Year Sentence

JEFFERSON, NJ — A man who pretended to be a 19-year-old and compelled a 13-year-old Morris County girl to send nude images to him in 2017, may serve up to 24 years in state prison, according to the Morris County Prosecutor's Office.

Kelvin Briggs, 64, who formerly lived in Las Vegas, was sentenced by Morris County Superior Court Judge Stephen Taylor on Thursday, the Prosecutor's Office stated in a news release.

Briggs is ineligible for parole until he has served 85 percent of the first 16 years of his sentence, as part of the No Early Release Act. He was mandated to have parole supervision for life and must register as a sex offender, as part of Megan's Law, prosecutors said.

Briggs — who was working in a Las Vegas casino when he connected online with the unidentified girl — may be eligible for parole in 11 years because of his time served, the Daily Record reported.

From August through November 2017, Briggs connected online with the Jefferson Township girl "who he later forced to send nude photos and videos of herself. When she tried to stop communication, Briggs engaged in stalking behavior by sending her screenshots of his flight plans to Newark Liberty International Airport and images of her home and school on Google Maps. He later fulfilled a threat of sending her nude photo to her teacher at Jefferson High School," said prosecutors, according to the Daily Record.

Jefferson Township Police, the Morris County Prosecutor's Office and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, worked jointly on the investigation.

On Sept. 1, Briggs was convicted by a jury of endangering the welfare of a child through distributing sexually explicit images, the Prosecutor's Office said. The jury additionally found him guilty of endangering the welfare of a child because of his explicit conversations with her. He was also convicted for stalking, sexual assault and invasion of privacy, said prosecutors.

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