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Man sues Denver archdiocese over abuse by convicted priest
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Scott Verti sits for an interview in downtown Denver on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023. Verti has filed a lawsuit alleging about 100 instances of abuse at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Fort Collins, Colo., from 1998 to 2003. The lawsuit is allowed under a 2021 state law that opened up a three-year window for people to pursue litigation for sexual abuse that happened to them as children dating as far back as 1960. - photo by AP Photo/Thomas Peipert
DENVER (AP) — A man who says he was repeatedly sexually abused as a teen by his Catholic priest more than two decades ago filed a lawsuit against the now-defrocked priest and the Archdiocese of Denver on Thursday, taking advantage of a recently passed law that allows victims to sue even if the statute of limitations has expired. The lawsuit targets Timothy Evans, a priest convicted in 2007 of sexually abusing other teens in two Colorado counties around the same time frame. The Vatican laicized Evans, essentially removing him from the priesthood, while he was in prison.