78-Year-Old Palm Harbor Woman Sent To Prison In Child Porn Case

PALM HARBOR, FL — A 78-year-old Palm Harbor woman is headed to federal prison for five years after being convicted of receiving child pornography.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich sentenced Vivienne Yvette Sellers of Orange Boulevard Way to five years in prison and ordered her to forfeit the electronic devices that she used to receive the pornography.

Sellers pleaded guilty April 8.

According to court documents, between May 30 and June 17, 2017, investigators said Sellers used an app to communicate with a person she believed was a 9-year-old boy. During those communications, she received photos and videos of children engaged in sexually explicit acts.

Sellers admitted she used her cellphone to access the app and communicate with a child about sex. Sellers stated that she sent sexually explicit pictures of herself to the child and received sexually explicit photos from the child. She also invited the child and his friend to her home because she said it was her fantasy to have sex with two boys at the same time.

This case was investigated by the FBI and was being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Lisa M. Thelwell.

The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.