MONROE — A man charged with sexually assaulting a 5-year-old is being held at the Green County Jail on a $1 million cash bond after police say he fled to Arizona and talked about bribing the child’s mother to get the charges dropped.
Timothy Stephen Joly, 26, formerly of Brooklyn, stood mute Jan. 31 on two Class B felony charges of first-degree child sexual assault. The court entered pleas of not guilty on his behalf. A pre-trial conference is scheduled for March 5.
The charges were filed with a warrant on Nov. 9 in Green County Circuit Court, about a week after the allegations of assault were brought to police.
Police arrested Joly the same day in Sedona, Arizona. He spent time in a county jail in Arizona before being extradited back to Wisconsin.
Court records indicate he had abruptly stopped showing up to his job as an assistant manager at a Pizza Hut in Madison, with no explanation, and disconnected his phone and fled to Arizona because he knew he was wanted by police.
Meanwhile, Green County investigators collected additional evidence against Joly, filed with an amended complaint Jan. 25.
In a second forensic interview at the Green County Child Advocacy Center’s Brickhouse in Monroe, the alleged victim gave more details of what investigators describe as “numerous” assaults between July 1 and Nov. 3. She said she hadn’t gone into some details in the first interview because she felt embarrassed and ashamed.
She told the forensic interviewer Joly made her promise to let him touch her if he let her play with a phone. He also promised her that “he would shoot out candy drinks” if she let him touch her, and she was upset when there was no candy. She demonstrated Joly’s alleged sex acts using dolls.
She said she told him to “please stop” and that the assaults hurt and “felt yucky.”
She also “advised she was being helpful for her sister because she does not want Joly to hurt her sister,” according to a report on the forensic interview.
The report indicates Joly had threatened the alleged victim in the past, unrelated to the sexual assaults, including threats to “take off all her clothes, leave her naked in the middle of the woods so she was lost and would never be found again” and, on another occasion, “throw her into the fire.”
When confronted about the assaults by the child’s mother on Nov. 3, Joly reportedly said he “would never do that,” then said the only way he could see it happening is if he was “blackout drunk.” He admitted to drinking during the day while babysitting.
The amended complaint against Joly also contains quotes from recorded phone calls with his father while Joly was jailed in Arizona.
He told his father he remembered “something happening” once, according to the complaint.
“I was feeling super guilty and then it just like exploded into all these other times that I don’t even remember,” Joly is quoted as saying to his father.
Joly then talked with his father about bribing the child’s mother with $10,000 to “drop” the charges.
“What does it matter if it’s legal or not if she does it? She’s not going to tell them she got paid off to do it,” he said, according to the complaint.
Assistant District Attorney Laura Kohl said she asked for the $1 million cash bond due to the “severity of the charges (and) the strength of the evidence,” as well as Joly’s actions to avoid court.
“He fled to Arizona to avoid facing the charges,” she said.
Joly also has a pending criminal case in Dane County for charges of resisting or obstructing an officer and operating while intoxicated, third offense, in May.