A federal judge is scheduled to sentence Taylor, the former head of a foundation started by Subway pitchman Jared Fogle, on child exploitation and child pornography charges on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015.
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After tearfully pleading to the judge that he not be left “to rot in a landfill of lost souls”, Russell Taylor was sentenced to 27 years in prison on child pornography charges Thursday. But Russell Taylor, runner of the Jared Foundation, is reportedly looking at 15 to nearly 23 years in prison, according to Wednesday’s report from FOX 59.
Taylor was arrested in April and pleaded guilty to 12 counts of producing child pornography, reports The Indy Star. The federal judge in a courtroom in Indianapolis met the two camps in the middle and slapped the 44-year-old defendant with 27 years.
Through the Jared Foundation, Taylor traveled with Fogle across the country and around the world – all the while sharing drinks, prostitutes and sick confidences. “Adults who sexually exploit children by producing child pornography knowingly cause vast harm to their victims and should expect appropriately strong punishment”.
Sometime around 2008, Fogle began pressuring Taylor to take hidden-camera images of his own children and their young friends in the bathroom of his home.
By 2012, Fogle “asked me to get (a date rape drug) to drug kids so he could see them in person”, Taylor said in the papers, in which Taylor tried to lay blame for their depravity on Fogle.
Taylor agreed in September to plead guilty to child exploitation and child abuse images charges and admitted using hidden cameras to produce abuse images of 12 children.
Taylor’s attorneys argue that the sentence requested by prosecutors is unfair because it is is far harsher than Fogle’s sentence. Taylor additionally will have life supervision after he serves his sentence. Prosecutors said one of the victims knew they were being recorded.
Fogle became a Subway pitchman after shedding more than 200 pounds as a college student, in part by eating the chain’s sandwiches.
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The U.S. Attorney had stated at Fogle’s sentencing, “In every respect, he’s a monster”, referring to Taylor as the monster Fogle helped create.
