The disgraced former Subway spokesman and father-of-two, Jared Fogle, has shelled out $1 million in payments to 10 victims as part of a plea bargain. Each of his victims has allegedly received checks for $100,000 which were hand-delivered by his personal lawyer. Despite the payments, Jared still faces up to 12 years in prison for multiple counts of child pornography, and one count of travel to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor involving two underage prostitutes. However, it isn’t the guilty plea for the pornography and illicit sexual conduct that are making waves. Instead, a series of secretly recorded videos on which Fogle can be heard discussing sexual acts with children, and the desire to see a friend’s children naked are the topic of conversation. In fact, many are upset that Fogle was given the opportunity to take a plea deal as the content of the recordings is highly disturbing and details the horrifying acts which Fogle hoped to perform on children along with admissions of having sex with a young boy.
The Daily Mail reports that Jared Fogle took a plea deal which required that he pay $100,000 to each of his 10 victims. In return, he would plead guilty to one count of travel to engage illicit sexual conduct with a minor and one count of distribution and receipt of child pornography involving 13 children. Following the plea deal, secret recordings of former Florida journalist Rochelle Herman-Walrond’s phone conversations with Fogle were released. The woman claims that she was leery of Fogle when she first met him in 2006. She says she was immediately suspicious when he discussed finding middle school aged girls “attractive.” She contacted the FBI with her concerns and would spend the next five years secretly recording conversations with Jared while pretending to be his friend. Ultimately, Jared opened up about his pastime and shared the details of his sexual escapades with minors.
Rochelle says she was sickened by the conversations but played her part as his friend to secure the recordings which would possibly help put the pedophile behind bars. However, in one particularly disturbing conversations, Fogle discusses “having a boy.” He says “it was amazing” and that “it just felt so good.”
“I had a little boy. It was amazing. It just felt so good. I mean, it felt, it felt so good.”
The former Subway spokesman also asked Rochelle if she would allow him to see her kids naked. Fogle even went so far as to ask if he could put a video camera in the children’s rooms.
“Would you, would you, would you let me– will you let me see your kids naked?”
When Rochelle pretends not to be bothered by the request noting that her children are “comfortable,” Jared pushes forward saying he would “love” to see them naked despite the fact the children were 10 and 11 at the time.
“Yeah? I would love to see them naked. So which of your kids do you think I’d like seeing better naked; your son or your daughter?”
The disgraced spokesman allegedly liked both girls and boys while maintaining no preference for a specific gender. Instead, he claimed to “like them all.” Fogle not only discussed sexual acts with minors, but he also told Rachelle the pair would make a good “team” in securing young children for his deviant behavior. He even told the former reporter that she could watch him “f*** a young girl.”
As the Jared Fogle saga draws to a conclusion, it appears that he will pay $100,000 each to ten of his victims and probably serve five to 12 and one-half years in prison, pending the judge’s approval of the plea deal. Due to the controversial and disturbing nature of Fogle’s crimes, there is sure to be an ongoing debate about the length of his sentence.
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