The report states that the lawsuit is targeting an unidentified Indiana-based victim, “Jane Doe”, and that Fogle’s suit against the victim’s family alleges that “the girl’s parents screwed her up when they got divorced”.
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Fogle filed a motion Thursday that asks the court to allow him to add the parents as third-party defendants in the case, accusing them of inflicting damage on the girl.
And now Fogle just made an even more head-turning move -he filed a lawsuit against the parents of one of the girls he sexually abused.
Fogle’s friend Russell Taylor, sentenced to 27 years in prison, was found guilty of secretly recording their daughter and others changing clothes and bathing at his house over more than four years and distributing the images to the former spokesman. That Fogle would dare to speak for this child in any capacity, or to go after her or her parents for monetary compensation is infuriating.
Fogle is now serving a more than 15-year prison sentence. Apparently, the footage shows Taylor’s wife helping set up the camera to record a child taking a bath, which in this case was their 10-year-old niece. He was sentenced to 15 and 1/2 years in prison.
Now Fogle has filed his own complaint against the parents in the U.S. District Court in Indianapolis.
As part of his plea deal, Fogle paid $100,000 to each of his 14 victims, including Jane Doe.
The suit, which names the victim as Jane Doe, says her parents fought often and abused alcohol in front of her.
The request is a response to the allegations that Fogle caused the girl emotional distress when she was videotaped at Russell Taylor’s home.
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Fogle’s motion says the parents’ “hateful and abusive” relationship toward each other, alcohol abuse and a lack of parental supervision caused emotional distress and depression suffered by their daughter, and paved the way for several “destructive behaviors” in which she engaged. Thursday’s filing indicates Fogle plans to argue that because Doe was already depressed and hurting herself before his crimes came to light, that he should not have to pay the price for all of Doe’s emotional distress and trauma.
