STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Abner Louima has "moved on with his life," 20 years after the Haitian immigrant suffered an infamous sexual assault at the hands of former NYPD Officer Justin Volpe.

Through his attorney Sanford Rubenstein, Louima indicated that he will not be doing interviews or issuing statements regarding the 20th anniversary of the Aug. 9, 1997 sodomy by Volpe in a Brooklyn stationhouse bathroom.

"He has moved on with his life and is focusing on his business interest and his family," said Rubenstein, who met with Louima about two weeks ago in Miami Beach, Fla.

Rubenstein considers Louima someone who succeeded in life despite suffering personal tragedy and therefore is a role model for all victims.

Louima was beaten and sodomized with a broomstick on Aug. 9, 1997, after he was arrested in a melee outside a Brooklyn nightclub. His injuries, that required a two-month stay in a hospital, included a ruptured bladder and colon.

The assault committed by white officers on the handcuffed black suspect at the 70th Precinct stationhouse sparked protests and what was, at the time, the largest settlement ever in a police brutality case in New York. The city and police union agreed to pay Louima $8.7 million.

Four officers initially faced charges in the attack. Volpe, formerly of Eltingville, pleaded guilty to civil rights violations and is serving a 30-year prison sentence. Former Island Officer Charles Schwarz pleaded guilty to perjury for helping cover up the assault and served a five-year term.

Convictions of former officers Thomas Bruder and Thomas Wiese ultimately were overturned by a federal appeals court.

Volpe married a Staten Island woman on May 13, 2012, at the low-security Coleman (Fla.) Federal Correctional Facility.

Schwarz, convicted of perjury for lying about his role in the assault, was most recently fired from Con Edison due to his notoriety in the case. In February, a state appellate court blocked Schwarz's efforts to sue the utility for his termination.

Schwarz's criminal trial was a tangled web of litigation. At Schwarz's first trial, in 1999, he was convicted of violating Louima's civil rights by conspiring and aiding Volpe in the assault. During the same trial, Volpe pleaded guilty.

A year later, Schwarz, Bruder and Wiese were convicted on obstruction charges.

In February 2002, a federal appeals court threw out the obstruction conviction and ordered a new trial for Schwarz on the civil rights violations.

Shortly thereafter, Schwarz was hit with two perjury charges, which accused him of lying when he said he didn't escort Louima to the bathroom and when he said he wasn't in the bathroom during the attack.

At the third trial -- which ended on July 16, 2002, after six days of deliberation -- Schwarz was convicted on just one count of perjury, lying when he said he didn't escort Louima to the bathroom. Jurors deadlocked on the remaining perjury charge and the more serious civil rights violations.

Immediately following the verdict, federal prosecutors announced their intention to seek a fourth trial.

But in a last-minute deal, Schwarz agreed to serve five years in federal prison on the perjury charge to avoid another trial.

He didn't have to admit guilt and prosecutors agreed to drop the remaining charges.