John Edward Zeretzke is an American teacher, flute player, composer, and convicted sex offender.
[6] In 2009, Zeretzke founded and directed Flutes Across the World, a humanitarian and educational organization.
[10] For the program, Zeretzke taught students to make flutes out of PVC piping, corks and hot glue.
[13] Zeretze composed the soundtracks for: Zeretzke was arrested in 2017 by Los Angeles County police and federal postal inspectors, who accused him of lewd conduct with children, coercing a girl to produce child pornography, attempting to entice another person to send him sexually explicit images, receiving child pornography over the internet, and traveling to the Philippines to engage in sex with minors.
[1][2][3][18][19] The California state attorney general announced on July 8, 2020, that he was sentenced in Orange County Superior Court to 18 years in state prison after pleading guilty to six counts of committing lewd acts against five girls under 14 by tainting their flutes with his semen.