WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A 39-year-old woman relives each day the actions of her abuser, a Butler County man who sent nude photos of her to other men via social media.

And she lives in fear of what he still could do.

“I've worked very hard to achieve everything I have in my life, both professionally and personally, and as a mother, I am terrified that these images will be held over my head for the rest of my life — and I didn't even know they existed, ” she said in a victim impact statement at Roy J. Yanvary's sentencing in Luzerne County Court.

Yanvary, 45, of Butler was given a maximum 23 months in the so-called “revenge porn” case.

He pleaded guilty last month to misdemeanor charges of selling obscene/sexual materials and unlawful dissemination of an intimate image.

The victim, who the Eagle is not identifying due to the nature of the charges, dated the defendant between June 2018 and April 2019 after she moved from Luzerne County to Saxonburg for a job.

During that time, she said she wasn't aware that Yanvary allegedly had taken nude photos of her.

County detectives said that the photos that Yanvary later sent through Facebook Messenger depicted the victim sleeping or passed out, and were taken without her permission.

The defendant allegedly told police that he had taken the nude photos of the victim with her consent for the purpose of having something by which to remember her.

Soon after the victim and Yanvary broke up, he allegedly sent more than a dozen images of the victim to a man via Facebook. The victim by then had moved back to Luzerne County, she said, to get away from the defendant.

A few days later, a second man allegedly received a photo of the victim in the nude.

When detectives confronted Yanvary about distributing the photos, he told them that he “must have been drunk and (angry) at (the victim),” according to the criminal complaint.

The victim, reading from her impact statement, told the court of the irreparable damage that the defendant had caused her.

“I am a very private person and I hate having my photo taken, it's something I've struggled with my entire life,” she said. “The scars that I have are invisible from this particular instance of abuse by his hand.

“You cannot see the emotional, reputational and scars of mistrust that fester beneath the surface. I relive the abuse in my head every day, and I firmly believe that I have (post-traumatic stress disorder) because of it.”

In exchange for Yanvary's guilty plea, prosecutors withdrew two additional charges of selling obscene/sexual materials and unlawful dissemination of an intimate image, both misdemeanors.

Luzerne County President Judge Michael Vough, in accordance with sentencing guidelines, ordered Yanvary to serve 1 to 23 months in prison. He was given credit for 145 days in jail after he was arrested for violating the terms of his bail.

According to Vough's sentencing order, Yanvary is immediately eligible for work-release, but he cannot be paroled until he provides the court with a home address approved by the county's adult probation office.

Additionally, the defendant was barred from any contact with the victim, and he was ordered to follow the recommendations of his drug and alcohol evaluation, mental health evaluation and anger management evaluation.

The victim, meanwhile, said she is still in therapy over her ordeal. She lives in Lehigh County, where she works as a customer service coordinator for a bread bag manufacturer.