BREVARD COUNTY, Florida - A Florida Department of Corrections employee who also coached Little League in Brevard County was arrested and charged with 10 counts of Possessing Child
Pornography on Friday.
The investigation was initiated after the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office received
information from the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children that images
of child pornography had been uploaded and shared on the internet from an
unknown location in Brevard County, Florida.
Sheriff’s Agents with the Sexual Offender
Registration and Tracking (SORT) Unit researched the images and identified the
residence where they had been uploaded. A search warrant was obtained and served
at the residence. Investigators say that forensic examiners recovered images from
electronic media belonging to 57-year-old Ronald Harvey Sellers, of Cocoa, Florida, that depicted infants and young children being
sexually abused.
The Sheriff's Office would not release Seller's photo per Florida
Statute because he is employed with the Florida Department of
Corrections. Sellers was transported to the Brevard County Jail where he has
since posted bond and been released.
Investigators learned that Sellers
was involved in volunteer activities as a coach for the Cocoa Little League.
Due to Sellers’ access to children in the same age group as those depicted in the
images that were recovered during the search as well as images that have been
discovered during the continuing forensic evaluation of the electronic media from
the residence, agents are asking for anyone in the community that may have
information relating to any possible victims to please contact either Agent Troy
Deavers of the SORT Unit at 321-633-8407 or CRIMELINE at 1-800-423-TIPS
(8477), you can also visit http://crimeline.org/, or text ‘crimeline’ plus your tip to
CRIME (274637). All information to CRIMELINE is confidential and you may be
eligible for a reward.