Child Molester Who Posed as Space Alien Gets 20 Years : Crime: Man seduced two 13-year-old girls in a tale involving travel to a distant galaxy. He is already serving 10 years in Nevada for a similar crime.

A North Hollywood man who convinced his young victims that he was a space alien recruiting them for a utopian society in a faraway galaxy was sentenced to 20 years in state prison Friday for molesting two 13-year-old girls.

Barry A. Briskman, 59, is already serving 10 years in Nevada for using the same elaborate ruse to seduce a 12-year-old runaway, prosecutor Steven J. Ipsen said.

“The techniques he used were the same used to convince adults to buy swampland in Florida,” Ipsen said. The girls, he added, all came from broken homes and were especially vulnerable.

According to court records, Briskman claimed to be an alien from the planet Cablell, recruiting a “team” of girls with superior beauty and intelligence for a female-dominated utopian society led by a Queen Hiternia, who was based atop the Tropicana hotel in Las Vegas.

But first, he told the victims, they had to double their IQs and break down their “sub-cons,” or subconscious intelligence barriers.

“It began with strip poker to break down our sub-cons,” one victim recalled. Later, she said, they had intercourse so he could inject the earth girls with “IRFs,” immunities to ward off space diseases.

After each encounter, Briskman convincingly dialed “Andy,” the Cablellian computer, model Andrak 4000. The computer gave readouts of the girls’ sub-con and IRF levels. Once they acquired 100 IRFs, Briskman told them, they would be ready for space travel.

“He’s a classic pedophile,” said Detective John Vannerson of the Los Angeles Police Department’s sexually exploited child unit. “He spins a magical tale of seduction.”

One of the victims, a former child actress who is now 18, conceded: “I don’t feel like I was the smartest of people for going along. He led me to believe many, many things. I wanted to believe them.

“It’s mental rape,” she told Van Nuys Superior Court Judge Kathryne Ann Stoltz before Stoltz sentenced Briskman. “He manipulated us. He brainwashed us. He started out gradually and it just kept going and going. It was the Energizer Bunny. I didn’t know I was going to have sex with him when I started. It was a team and we were going to be best friends.”

Ipsen and the victims urged Stoltz to sentence Briskman to the maximum term--nearly 33 years in state prison. But the judge set the sentence at 20 years to run concurrently with the Nevada sentence because he agreed to plead guilty Thursday to 14 counts of sexually molesting minors.

The plea caught Ipsen and the girls by surprise. Although Stoltz had been ready to sentence Briskman Thursday, one of the victims pleaded with her to wait another day so the other victim also could be present.