Fogle’s voice cracked and he sobbed as he said, “Not a day will go by when I don’t think about what I did to (the victims)”.
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Former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle has finally learned his fate after he pled guilty to child pornography and traveling across state lines to participate in paid sex with a minor.
Federal sentencing laws require inmates to serve at least 85 percent of their sentences, meaning Fogle will have more than 13 years behind bars before he is eligible for parole.
As MSN reports, Fogle’s attorneys sought a 5-year sentence while prosecutors sought 12-and-a-half years. Under cross-examination, Bradford said Fogle admitted to paying a minimum of about $12,000 a year for sex.
She told him his Subway earnings were a “gift” – but he squandered his opportunities.
Judge Tanya Walton Pratt interrupted him and said “you gave your wife US$7 million, so she’ll be OK”, the newspaper reported.
Fogle came under suspicion after the May arrest of Russell Taylor, then-executive director of Fogle’s charity, The Jared Foundation. “He emboldened a molester and a producer of child pornography”.
Wife Katie Fogle also filed for divorce in August.
Fogle has already begun to pay $1.4 million in compensation to the 14 victims – 12 of pornography and two of child prostitution. “I want to rebuild my life”. They argued that longer sentences should be used for criminals who have sex with much younger children, and asked for a five-year sentence instead. It included the reading of text messages, in which Fogle offers top dollar to those who could connect him with minors for sex. She could have sentenced him to up to 50 years in prison. For most of his adult life, Fogle said, he has been in the public eye, and eventually became dependent on alcohol, pornography and prostitutes. Subway ended its relationship with Fogle when the scandal broke.
In 2000, Subway released an ad with Fogle’s story about how he lost about 245 pounds in a year from a diet of mostly Subway sandwiches, CNN noted.
Also, Fogle is required to pay restitution to the 14 victims who were secretly photographed or whom he paid for sex.
In an attempt to prove that Fogle’s actions were based on his weight loss, his attorney had an expert testify that he had a compulsive eating disorder to prove that when he lost weight, he replaced it with hypersexuality.
The immediate fate of once-popular fast food spokesman Jared Fogle is now finally set in the aftermath of his sentencing hearing in an Indianapolis federal court Thursday.
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Taylor was accused of recording minors without their consent.
