Former officer Brad Schuhmann avoided a prison sentence and now wants a judge to release him from probation to help him obtain a job in the trucking industry
Kenneth Betts had asked for a compassionate release because he had cancer and was more susceptible to a COVID-19 outbreak in prison.
Former Officer Brad Schuhmann, who retired from the department earlier this month, will be sentenced on March 10 and prosecutors indicated they would recommend six months incarceration.
Officer Brad Schuhmann was indicted Nov. 3 by a federal grand jury in U.S. District Court on a charge of sexually abusing a juvenile in 2010, according to court records.
A federal judge ruled this week “the nature and circumstances” of Brandon Wood’s crimes are “disturbing” and a “substantial” prison sentence is necessary.
Brandon Wood has asthma and the prison in Ohio where he is serving his time is “experiencing an outbreak of the coronavirus with both officers and inmates infected,” according to his attorney.
Attorneys for Kenneth Betts and Brandon Wood argued the evidence includes sensitive information about other minors being sexually abused.
Brandon Wood, who earlier in the day was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 70 months in prison on a charge of attempted enticement, pleaded guilty in state court to seven counts of sexual abuse involving a teen in the program.
Wood is one of two former Louisville Metro Police officers indicted in federal and state court for allegedly sexually abusing teens while with the department's Explorer program.
A former Louisville Metro Police officer already federally convicted of sex crimes in the department's youth mentoring Explorer program is scheduled to plead guilty in May to state charges involving sodomy of teens.