He also said Fogle, whose wife filed for divorce on the day he agreed to plead guilty, admitted that he occasionally fantasized about children.
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Fogle said he takes “full, ample responsibility for what I’ve done” and wants “to become a good decent person and a good father, and to help others”.
After the judge rejected a plea by Fogle’s attorney for a five-year sentence, and ultimately gave him 15 years, Josh J. Minkler, the United States attorney in Indianapolis read a statement noting that the accused had knowledge that individuals in the videos and pictures were under 18 and that he was also aware of Taylor’s family relationship to the victims, sometimes including names, per a NY Times report.
What a gift to have such a professional windfall fall in your lap.
She could have sentenced him to up to 50 years. Pratt said she will recommend that the former Subway celebrity be imprisoned in Littleton, Colorado, because it has a program for sex offenders.
Fogle, who became famous after losing weight on a diet that included sandwiches from the fast-food chain, agreed in August to a deal with prosecutors under which he would plead guilty to charges of child pornography and traveling for illicit paid sex with minors.
Bradford, of the University of Ottawa, claimed right after Fogle pleaded guilty to child porn expenses.
Court papers detailing the costs -yearold daddy of two say that Fogle paid them and had sex at Nyc accommodations with two ladies under-age 18.
In addition they composed that Fogle is suffering from “hypersexuality and alcohol abuse /dependence” and it is committed to getting therapy.
In short, Fogle lost a ton of weight eating Subway, and it made him a skinny sexual predator. “His main interest was in young females and a few interest in adolescent males”.
Bradford said Fogle had fantasies of girls, age 12 or 13, but his principal curiosity was older minors.
The doctor explained Fogle had dreams that were “mild or occasional about prepubertal children ” the Star reported.
Prosecutors detailed the level of Fogle’s deviance and preference for sex with children. “Looking at all of this, I believe he did suffer from pedophilia, except it didn’t involve acting out with a child”. In his plea deal, he admitted to having sex with two underage girls in a NY City hotel and paying for that sex. He also acknowledged receiving child pornography produced by Russell Taylor, the former executive director of The Jared Foundation, a non-profit Fogle started to raise awareness and money to fight childhood obesity.
Fogle consented to pay an overall total of $1.4 trillion to his 14 victims 000.
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Authorities have so far identified 12 victims of child pornography in IN, along with two teenage victims of child prostitution in NY, according to court documents. U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt handed down a sentence that was even tougher than the federal sentencing recommendation of 14 years.
