District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan announces a New Tripoli man is charged with using computer software to create child sex abuse material.

Reza John Mazlum, 50, is charged with three felony counts of sexual abuse of children— child sex abuse material. An arrest warrant had been issued for Mazlum and he was taken into custody on May 11, 2026.

Mazlum waived his right to a preliminary hearing on Monday and he is in Lehigh County Jail on $100,000 bail.

On March 24, state police received information that Mazlum showed a person images of young girls wearing clothes and bikinis. Mazlum said he had found the images on Pinterest.

Pennsylvania State Police interviewed Mazlum at his home on April 4 and he admitted he downloaded clothed images of children from Pinterest and digitally altered them using software to remove the clothing from the images of the children.

After using the software to create naked images of the children, Mazlum said he would save the images in the photo gallery application on his cellphone.

Police searched Mazlum’s phone and found numerous images of child sexual abuse material.

This case was investigated by Pennsylvania State Police Troop I Computer Crime Unit Cpl. Michael Bretzger and will be prosecuted by Chief Deputy District Attorney Sara A. Moyer.