Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer has called the many allegations that the department’s police have been sexually abusing children in their Youth Explorer programme “Our Worst Nightmare” and has asked the FBI to come and open up an investigation.

He assured people:

“If there has been an injustice,”… it will be remedied.”

Fischer had previously hiredformer U.S. Attorney Kerry Harvey to determine whether “errors were made”,  but this probe will also be subject to inquiry.

Harvey also avowed.

“The allegations surrounding the Explorer program, if true, represent unacceptable conduct involving children, and the citizens of Louisville deserve to know what happened,”

The Free Thought Project reported:

According to local NBC affiliate LEX18, “A lawsuit filed on behalf of a participant in the Youth Explorer program charges that his alleged rape by Officers Kenneth Betts and Brandon Wood was ‘concealed’ by department officials. Betts and Wood are accused of sexually assaulting the participant from 2011 through 2013 and recording the incidents to make pornography.”

David Yates, an attorney for the victim, noted the allegations — the now-22-year-old victim says officers used their position of authority to engage him in sexual acts when he was under the age of 18 — constitute third-degree statutory rape.

Betts had also been under investigation for alleged “improper contact” with a teenaged girl in the Explorer program — until Conrad ended it upon the officer’s resignation in 2014. Alarmingly, given the nature of the allegations, Wood remains active on the force, albeit in a limited, administrative capacity.

Read more on The Free Thought Project and see the Mayor’s video update below: