PENNSYLVANIA
ABC 6
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (WPVI) — A priest from Lehigh County has been charged with sexual abuse related to possession of child pornography.
Msgr. John S. Mraz, 66, of Bethlehem, is a former pastor at St. Ann’s Roman Catholic Church in Emmaus.
According to the Lehigh County district attorney, Mraz came to the attention of investigators earlier this summer, after he asked a friend and parishioner to update two laptop computers.
That person found sexually explicit images of underage boys on both laptops, prosecutors say, and alerted officials from Diocese of Allentown, who passed on the information to the district attorney.
An investigation revealed that Mraz had searched for and downloaded multiple pornographic images of underage boys on multiple devices, prosecutors said.
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