Volunteer arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a girl for nearly three years
April 14, 2011 – Police officers have arrested a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a girl for nearly three years while volunteering at Springs Community Church from the late 1990s through 2008. Police said the girl was 16 years old when 37-year-old Eric Caverly allegedly began sexually assaulting her. Caverly was a youth leader to the middle school ministry.
According to an arrest affidavit the church is where he first met the girl. He formed a friendship with the victim, and she frequently spent the night at the Caverly home. Caverly and the victim started “fooling around” when she was 16. Documents state he would take her hand and place it in his pants. Caverly and the teen first had sex when she was 17 years old.
Eric Caverly / Courtesy: Colorado Springs Police Department
The arrest is the result of a sexual assault report taken back in December, three years after the first assaults allegedly began.