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The Morning Call
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Laurie Mason Schroeder, Matt Coughlin and Pamela Lehman
Of The Morning Call
St. Ann catholic Church priest arrested for collecting child porn
EMMAUS — In late July, Monsignor John Stephen Mraz, pastor of St. Ann Catholic Church in Emmaus, asked a parishioner to help him update his two laptop computers.
What the parishioner, identified by police only with the initials D.M., found in the priest’s files and online search history made him feel “uncomfortable,” authorities said, and he reported it to the Diocese of Allentown.
Now Mraz, whose 41-year career has included posts as a chaplain at Lehigh University and a theology teacher at Central Catholic High School in Allentown, faces a possible jail term for allegedly viewing and downloading child pornography.
“[Mraz] searched for and downloaded the images of child pornography and did so for his own sexual gratification,” Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin said at a news conference Tuesday morning announcing charges against the 66-year-old Mraz.
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