Cobb softball coach Nicholas Mazza facing child porn charges

A neighborhood is in shock after federal agents arrested a Cobb County man who coaches girls’ softball on child poography charges.
 
According to a criminal complaint, Nicholas Mazza, of Powder Springs is facing child poography charges after investigators with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security monitored peer-to-peer networks and discovered a troubling number of child po downloads to an IP address belonging to Mazza.
 
”It is one of the worst, heinous crimes that anyone can commit, period, said Jack Huddleston, Mazza's neighbor.
 
According to Mazza’s website, he coached girls’ softball teams around the Cobb County area for more than a decade.  He also offered coaching sessions, according the website.
 
Joseph Terrell lived next door to Mazza for 20 years. Neighbors report seeing agents surround his home earlier this week.
 
”The kids come by all the time. We had no idea something like that was going on, said Terrell.
 
According to a criminal complaint, Mazza admitted to investigators that he viewed and saved child poography for approximately 10 years, saying that ”his child poography preference was girls around the age of 10.
 
”It is a very close community and for this to happen in this community is just appalling, said Huddleston.