{"id":5648,"date":"2026-10-06T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/william-f-vatterott-former-priest-arrested\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T07:12:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:12:04","slug":"william-f-vatterott-former-priest-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/william-f-vatterott-former-priest-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"William F. Vatterott Former Priest Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/dOJgBe7d2HY\/maxresdefault.webp)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Former St. Louis priest arrested again after federal investigation\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dOJgBe7d2HY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 6, 2026 (STL.News) A former St. Louis Catholic priest who served federal prison time after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography has been arrested and detained in a federal supervised-release proceeding. William F. Vatterott was arrested September 23, 2026, according to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The arrest occurred more than 13 years after Vatterott pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography and received a 37-month federal prison sentence. The latest proceeding is part of Vatterott\u2019s original federal criminal case, United States v. William F. Vatterott, No. 4:13-cr-00161-MTS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/william-f-vatterott-former-priest-arrested-federal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 6, 2026 (STL.News) A former St. Louis Catholic priest who served federal prison time after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography has been arrested and detained in a federal supervised-release proceeding. William F. Vatterott&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5650,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions\/5650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}