Jared Fogle, former Subway pitchman, reaches plea deal in child porn case

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Jared Fogle, former Subway pitchman, reaches plea deal in child porn case

By Mariano Castillo, CNN

Updated 6:09 AM ET, Thu August 20, 2015

Story highlights

    Under the deal, Fogle will plead guilty to child porn charges and to traveling across state lines to have sex with teenage girls
    Subway stopped its relationship with Fogle after officials raided his Indiana home
    Fogle claimed he dropped about 245 pounds thanks in part to exercise and a diet involving Subway subs

(CNN)Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle will plead guilty to child pornography charges and to crossing state lines to pay for sex with minors, prosecutors and defense attorneys announced after his initial appearance in federal court.

Fogle "has notified the court that he intends to plead guilty," U.S. Attorney Josh Minkler said in Indianapolis. The prosecutor described the case as a "five-year criminal scheme to exploit children."

The plea deal, filed in court Wednesday, would see Fogle serve between five and 12½ years in prison.

The court will have to approve the agreement, in which Fogle pleads guilty to possessing and distributing child porn, and to traveling across state lines to have sex with at least two teenage girls.

Under the plea deal, the government agrees to recommend less than 13 years in prison for Fogle. Also, Fogle's lawyers agree to ask the judge for no less than a 5-year prison term.

Fogle, 37, also will pay restitution to the 14 victims who were secretly photographed in the images possessed by Fogle or who he paid for sex. Each victim will get $100,000, funds intended for counseling, support and other assistance.

According to court documents, the charges against Fogle are related to his relationship with Russell C. Taylor, the executive director of the Jared Foundation, who was arrested more than two months ago on federal child pornography charges.

According to the plea deal and indictment:

• Between 2011 and April 2015, Fogle received from Taylor multiple pornographic images of minors engaging in sexually explicit contact.

• Fogle had conversations with Taylor about the child porn, but instead of alerting authorities, he "chose to benefit from such production by obtaining access to a significant amount of such material."

• The images and videos were recorded by Taylor at his home through the use of hidden cameras.

• Between 2010 and February 2013, Fogle traveled from Indiana to New York to pay to have sex with minors.

• One victim told investigators she had sex with Fogle twice when she was 17 in exchange for money, once at the Plaza Hotel and once at the Ritz Carlton, both in New York City.

• The same minor also said that Fogle had sex with her three other times before 2012, when she was 16.

• Prosecutors say that text messages, travel records, hotel records and a search of Fogle's home provided evidence of these arrangements.

• The same minor said Fogle had sex with another 16-year-old girl on another occasion.

• Prosecutors say they have talked to witnesses who can testify about conversations Fogle had with them offering a "finder's fee" for seeking minors for him.

The agreement says Fogle will adhere to a pornography ban and sexual disorders treatment, and he will have no unsupervised visits with minors, among other requirements.

Computer monitoring will be required, too.

Wife wants to end marriage

By admitting to the crimes, Fogle is accepting responsibility and attempting to make amends, defense attorneys Ron Elberger, Andrew DeVooght and Jeremy Margolis said in a statement.

"Jared also understands that he requires significant psychiatric medical treatment and counseling. He has already begun that process by being extensively examined by a world-renowned expert in sexual conditions in order to chart a course to recovery. It is Jared's intent and goal to become healthy again," they said.

"Most importantly, Jared understands that he has hurt innocent people, vulnerable people, and his family. He has expressed remorse ... to his loved ones, and will, when given the opportunity, express that remorse to this court and to the people he has harmed. His intent is to spend the rest of his life making amends."

No date has been set for Fogle's next court date, where he will formally enter a change of plea, Margolis said.

On the same day the indictment and plea deal became known, Fogle's wife, Katie, released a statement saying she wants out of the marriage.

"Obviously, I am extremely shocked and disappointed by the recent developments involving Jared," she said in a statement via her attorney. "I am in the process of seeking a dissolution of the marriage. My focus is exclusively on the well-being of my children."

The family will offer no further comments.

In the brief glances that reporters got of Fogle as he entered the courthouse, it appeared he was not wearing a wedding ring.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/19/us/subway-jared-fogle-charges/ (tor safe)

[on the rocks]

Any evidence Jared had any porn of or engaged or attempted to engage in any activity with anyone under 13?
Does anyone know?

The answer dramatically changes how I think he should be judged.

[Gaki]

"Jared also understands that he requires significant psychiatric medical treatment and counseling. He has already begun that process by being extensively examined by a world-renowned expert in sexual conditions in order to chart a course to recovery. It is Jared's intent and goal to become healthy again," they said.

I see a new commercial campaign!  Who can sponsor it this time - McDonalds' Hamburgler? 

Ok, it is cruel to jest, but I did find that comment ironic given how that was the entire way he got famous through Subway, was it not?

At any rate, I agree, the charges against a 16 and 17 year old, although legally bad, is something that many teens will do.  The situation of how and why she was paid, whether she was complicit is important in that.

I have a feeling that the other guy was much more involved in things and that Jared got stuck with a really bad seed.

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[Girl_Lover]

Whether there is more to this or not (I don't trust "journalism"), 13 years hard time for having sex with a 16 & 17yo is really pushing the technicality of the law. And from the best I can tell, his "CP" was pics of those girls.

I guess martyrism is alive & well in the US.

Im not saying 6 or 16 is any different to us from a certain perspective, but the general public would see it as extreme. ie: his social status would be in bigger tatters the younger they are.

One thing I continually find ironic is that people in the public eye that create foundations/causes/whatever to the benefit of children, are the ones that have a preference for such.

Either way, we now have another man who will be known as a "monstrous-child-raping-blah-blah-blah", instead of the good he was aiming to do in the world.

[PhilL]

I fear that he will be facing a lot of 12 inch extra meaty subs loaded with special sauce aimed at his subway. This is just over the top in the way of a witch hunt.

[ministraw]

Ha! Not even a pedophilia case. This is a jail bait case. In some of the most civilized countries, this isn't even a crime.
{{One victim told investigators she had sex with Fogle twice when she was 17 in exchange for money, once at the Plaza Hotel and once at the Ritz Carlton, both in New York City.}}

Don't they realize they are rewarding us with money for prostituting as a minor? Good job. I should have gotten into it before I turned Of Age!

[BabyBoyLove]

Ha! Not even a pedophilia case. This is a jail bait case. In some of the most civilized countries, this isn't even a crime.
{{One victim told investigators she had sex with Fogle twice when she was 17 in exchange for money, once at the Plaza Hotel and once at the Ritz Carlton, both in New York City.}}

Don't they realize they are rewarding us with money for prostituting as a minor? Good job. I should have gotten into it before I turned Of Age!

Actually since he paid it would be a crime in many "civilized" countries, corrupting a minor or simply prostitution.

[ministraw]

Oh, right. Prostitution.

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Ha! Not even a pedophilia case. This is a jail bait case. In some of the most civilized countries, this isn't even a crime.
{{One victim told investigators she had sex with Fogle twice when she was 17 in exchange for money, once at the Plaza Hotel and once at the Ritz Carlton, both in New York City.}}

Don't they realize they are rewarding us with money for prostituting as a minor? Good job. I should have gotten into it before I turned Of Age!

Actually since he paid it would be a crime in many "civilized" countries, corrupting a minor or simply prostitution.

Prostitution is actually legal in many countries.  Such as the great white north

[BabyBoyLove]

Actually since he paid it would be a crime in many "civilized" countries, corrupting a minor or simply prostitution.

Prostitution is actually legal in many countries.  Such as the great white north

Unless with a minor, then it becomes corrupting a minor. Ask Berlusconi how that works, having sex with a 17yo is legal, having sex with that 17yo while she is paid is not. Hence the charges against him.

In your case I would look into:
paying for sex with anyone under the age of 18. The new law is somewhat vague since it has been repealed, but I don't see anything prohibiting prosecuting anyone that has paid sex with someone under 18. I believe it is already a crime to pay someone for sex in the vicinity of someone under 18 in the great white north.

[HowardBL]

I don't even think that he is a pedophile but that is just my opinion. I think that he just lost interest in his wife and went to young girls but to get punished for that? I don't think so.