PENNSYLVANIA
PhllyVoice
BY DANIEL CRAIG
PhillyVoice Staff
A Lehigh Valley priest has been accused of searching for and possessing child pornography.
The Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday that Msgr. John Stephen Mraz, 66, formerly of Emmaus, has been charged after an investigation that began earlier this summer.
Mraz had been stationed at St. Ann’s Roman Catholic Church. On July 25, Mraz asked a parishioner at St. Ann’s, only identified as D.M., to help upgrade his laptop, prosecutors said.
D.M. told authorities that while doing so he found images of nude males in the recycling bin of the computer.
Mraz asked D.M. to upgrade another laptop as well, and D.M. said he found a file with a name that suggested it contained explicit images of underage boys, prosecutors said.
D.M. told the Diocese of Allentown, which promptly informed the Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office.
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