20 November 2015

Former Subway spokesman sentenced


Time has an article by Rick Callahan about a pedophile going to jail:
Former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle was sentenced to more than fifteen years in prison after he pleaded guilty to child pornography and sex crime charges, telling the judge he understood that he will likely go to prison.
Fogle agreed in August of 2015 to plead guilty to one count each of traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and distribution and receipt of child pornography. The charges followed a July raid on his suburban Indianapolis, Indiana home and the resulting criminal case destroyed his career with the sandwich restaurant chain.
Before entering his guilty plea during the hearing, US District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt asked Fogle whether he understood the punishment he could face and he answered, “Yes, your honor. I do.”
Fogle has admitted paying for sex with girls as young as sixteen and receiving child pornography produced by Russell Taylor, the former executive director of The Jared Foundation, a nonprofit Fogle started to raise awareness and money to fight childhood obesity.
Authorities said Taylor secretly filmed twelve minors as they were nude, changing clothes, or engaged in other activities, using hidden cameras in his Indianapolis-area residences to produce child pornography. Taylor has agreed to plead guilty to child exploitation and child pornography charges.
Prosecutors said in a sentencing memorandum filed last week that Fogle received photos or videos from Taylor of eight of those twelve youths, and that some of those images were of girls as young as twelve. Fogle could have stopped Taylor from victimizing some of minors, prosecutors have said, but he instead encouraged Taylor to produce additional child pornography.
In the government’s filing, prosecutors said “Fogle has sacrificed absolutely everything he had built, including his family, to engage in sexually explicit conduct with two minors. He emboldened a molester and a producer of child pornography.”
Court documents detailing the charges against the 38-year-old father of two say that Fogle had sex at New York City hotels with two girls under age eighteen (one of whom was sixteen at the time) and paid them for that sex.
Fogle agreed to pay a total of $1.4 million to his fourteen victims, with each getting $100,000. Before Fogle entered his guilty pleas, one of his attorneys told the judge that Fogle had paid twelve of the fourteen victims and turned over the checks for the last two victims before the proceedings began.
Fogle became a Subway spokesman after shedding more than two hundred pounds as a college student, in part by eating the chain’s sandwiches. Subway ended its relationship with Fogle after authorities raided his suburban Indianapolis home in July of 2014.
In their sentencing memorandum seeking a five-year prison term, Fogle’s attorneys said he “is profoundly sorry for what he has done.” They also wrote that Fogle suffers from “hyper-sexuality and alcohol abuse/dependence” and is committed to receiving treatment for his medical conditions.
In addition, Fogle’s attorneys stressed that he never engaged in any sexual conduct with any of Taylor’s minor victims, and played no role in producing any of the images or videos recorded by Taylor.
Fogle’s attorneys said in their sentencing memorandum that Fogle’s offer to pay each victim restitution demonstrates “both the genuine remorse he feels and his commitment” to help his victims “move forward” with their lives.
As of last week, eleven of those victims had received their restitution and the three others should have arrangements in place to be paid by Fogle’s sentencing hearing, Assistant US Attorney Steven DeBrota said.
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