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	Police: Alleged Victim Says Priest Offered Bribes to Make Charges Go Away Affidavit Details Case behind Sex-Abuse Charges Coloradoan March 13, 2006 http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060313/NEWS01/60313001 Former Catholic priest Timothy Evans, 43, accused of sexual assault on a child while a priest at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish in Fort Collins, offered money and gifts to one alleged victim to make the allegations go away, according to a police affidavit released today. The affidavit indicates there may have been three victims — two at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and one at Spirit of the Christ Church in Arvada. Monsignor Thomas Fryar of the Archdiocese of Denver called Fort Collins police on March 30, 2004, to report the allegations of abuse against Evans, according to the affidavit. It may not have been the first time allegations against Evans had been reported, according to the report. One alleged victim told police the diocese moved Evans from Spirit of the Christ Church to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton "due to an incident where Father Timothy Evans inappropriately touched a juvenile male." Jeanette DeMelo, director of communications for the Archdiocese, denied this allegation, saying that the diocese will not move a priest facing "credible" allegations of sexual misconduct of a minor. DeMelo confirmed that Evans was removed from the ministry in 2002. Evans faces two counts of sexual assault on a child by a person in position of trust, one count of sexual assault on a child — pattern of abuse and one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor stemming from incidents alleged to have occurred between Sept. 1, 1998, and May 18, 1999. Evans served at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, 5450 S. Lemay Ave., from 1998 to 2002.
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