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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Larimer County, Colorado, USA · 2007

Colorado: priest Timothy Evans — the only Colorado priest tried and convicted of sexual assault since 2002

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Catholic priest, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, Fort Collins

Organization

Diocese of Colorado Springs

Spiritual nexus

Evans's position of pastoral trust at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church was the charged operative mechanism (position-of-trust statute) for the assaults.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2007-03-27 · jury conviction and sentencing

    Larimer County District Court, Colorado, USA. A Larimer County jury convicted Timothy Joseph Evans on three counts of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust; the pattern of abuse spanned three victims in Jefferson and Larimer counties from roughly 1990 to 2003 while he served at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Fort Collins. He was sentenced to 14 years to life, laicized by the Vatican while imprisoned, and paroled in 2020. Colorado's independent 2019 review of clergy abuse identified him as the only priest tried and convicted of sexual assault in the state since the 2002 scandal broke.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • pastoral position of trust used to access teenage boys, roughly 100 instances alleged

Primary record

Sources

regional newspaper court reporting verdict report Sara Reed, 'Evans Faces at Least 10 Years in Prison; Former Priest Found Guilty of Sex Assault,' The Coloradoan (Mar. 27, 2007), via BishopAccountability.org.

Contemporaneous report of the jury's guilty verdict and the pending sentence.

public radio court reporting case status report 'One Priest Named In Colorado AG's Report On Sex Abuse Is Up For Parole,' Colorado Public Radio (Dec. 1, 2019).

Confirms Evans as the sole Colorado priest convicted since 2002, his 14-years-to-life sentence, laicization, and pending parole.

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