The plaintiffs, identified in the suit only by initials, made claims against officers that include sexual assault, stalking and harassment.

A U.S. District Court judge on Wednesday sentenced former Officer Brad Schuhmann six months of home incarceration followed by two years on probation. In addition, Schuhmann will have to pay a $2,000 fine and register as a sex offender.

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.

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. 

A change in publicly filing evidence has prevented citizens and media from understanding how and whether justice has been served – and made it difficult for defense attorneys to gather evidence for trial in their own cases.

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.

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.

A teen claimed in a federal lawsuit last year that Brad Schuhmann abused her in his Louisville Metro Police Department cruiser and sought sexual pictures and acts from her.