ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Roman Catholic priest was arrested for soliciting a prostitute and masturbating in his car, sheriff's officials said Monday. The Rev. Thomas Vellappallil, 40, was charged late Friday with soliciting a prostitute and committing a lewd act for offering to pay an undercover police officer $20 for oral sex, according to a report from the Orange County Sheriff's Office. Father Thomas was driving a car owned by his religious order, The Missionaries of Lasalette in Connecticut. The undercover female officer posing as a prostitute wouldn't have known he's a priest. He was not wearing his collar when...
