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Former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle to plead guilty to child pornography charges

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Symphonia

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Neuromancer said:
Possession unfortunately does not carry a mandatory minimum sentence. So if that's the only charge there is a possibility he will not do any jail time.
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It's not the only charge. The OP has been updated with a full list of Fogle's charges. He will be going to jail.
 
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Symphonia

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Neuromancer said:
Oh good. This guy needs to go away for a long time.
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Wait, as OP hasn't been updated. New page.

INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Former Subway sandwich chain pitchman Jared Fogle asked a federal judge on Wednesday to accept his plea of guilty to charges of child pornography and traveling for illicit paid sex with minors.

Federal Judge Mark Dinsmore must now review the plea deal Fogle's attorneys reached with prosecutors and decide whether to accept it. In the meantime the court entered a technical plea of not guilty on Fogle's behalf. Fogle, who became famous after losing a lot of weight on a diet that included Subway sandwiches, was placed on home detention and must wear an electronic monitoring device. No date has been set for his next appearance. Under the deal, Fogle would serve between five and 12 years in prison, pay $1.4 million in restitution to 14 minor victims, register as a sex offender and meet other conditions.

Subway fired Fogle on Tuesday when reports of the plea agreement emerged. According to the charges, Rusell Taylor, head of the Jared Foundation set up to combat child obesity, secretly taped 12 minors while they changed clothes and showered at his home, including two who were as young as 13 or 14. He shared the images with Fogle, who knew they showed minors, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said Fogle also received commercial child pornography from Taylor, viewed it and failed to report it. He stored explicit images of children as young as six, prosecutors said. Fogle traveled to New York City at least twice between 2010 and 2013 seeking sex with minors, and paid for sex acts with a girl he knew to be 17 years old and another girl younger than 18. He told the first girl he would "make it worth her while" if she could find him another minor to have sex with, "the younger the girl, the better," according to the indictment. Prosecutors said he repeatedly asked prostitutes and others to find him 14- and 15-year-olds for sex.

Police and prosecutors said in a news conference on Wednesday that the investigation of Taylor and Fogle started after a tip from a private citizen. Fogle became a Subway spokesman after losing a reported 245 pounds in part by eating regularly at the sandwich chain. He made his first Subway commercial in 2000, and appeared in a new one last year, according to Subway. Immediately after the hearing Fogle's wife, Katie, said in a statement that she would seek an end to the marriage.

"Obviously, I am extremely shocked and disappointed by the recent developments involving Jared. I am in the process of seeking a dissolution of the marriage," she said in the statement released by her lawyer. Fogle's attorney Jeremy Margolis told reporters in a statement on the courthouse steps: "He expects to go to prison, he will do his time... He will continue to make amends to people whose lives he has affected, and at some point hopes to become again a productive member of society."

Authorities searched Fogle's home in the Zionsville suburb northwest of Indianapolis in July, two months after Taylor was arrested on federal child pornography charges. Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven DeBrota said at a news conference that Fogle continued to seek paid sex with minors even after Taylor's arrest, but was not successful.

DeBrota said prosecutors were not concerned that Fogle would try to flee.

"I don't think he's going anywhere. If he does, we'll catch him, we'll arrest him and I'll prosecute him some more," he said. "I don't think Jared is going to flee very far without getting recognized."
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Charges are bolded.
 
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Foffy

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Jarrod38 said:
Had
over 3000 video
over 100,000 photos
over 3000 or 300,000 texts
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Five years for this? Like, I know we punish people badly for this, but that's a massive volume of stuff.

I do wonder if we as a society can ever realize people don't choose these types of interests, that free will doesn't actually exist. We don't really have any sort of system to truly help these people other than jailing them, do we? That doesn't get rid of the urges and intrinsic wants of the person, though.

At least he's famous enough that after his prison sentence, he can't really get away with this in secret again. I find it hard for him to be a repeat offender with his fame.
 
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inm8num2

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I wish I could be angrier at Fogle for being an absolutely irredeemable piece of shit, but this just makes me incredibly sad for the victims.
 
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Doc Holliday

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Wow, even worse than I imagined. He can't use that Indiana age limit bs anymore since he traveled to NY to get his kicks.

How the fuck did they not think they would be caught?

Unbelievable
 
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Hellwarden

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Not saying the time he'll get will fit the bill, but bear something in mind folks.

Pedophiles are at the bottom of the chain in prison, and I imagine Fogle is gonna been known when he comes in.

Unless he gets put away from the general population, he's gonna be eaten alive.
 
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LyleLanley

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Hellwarden said:
Not saying the time he'll get will fit the bill, but bare something in mind folks.

Pedophiles are at the bottom of the chain in prison, and I imagine Fogle is gonna been known when he comes in.

Unless he gets put away from the general population, he's gonna be eaten alive.
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I assume he's not going to be in gen pop. Putting a famous pedophile in gen pop just seems like playing with fire.
 
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Ninja Scooter

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Hellwarden said:
Not saying the time he'll get will fit the bill, but bear something in mind folks.

Pedophiles are at the bottom of the chain in prison, and I imagine Fogle is gonna been known when he comes in.

Unless he gets put away from the general population, he's gonna be eaten alive.
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He's not going to general population. Both because he's a child sex offender and because he's known. Even non-famous child sex offenders are placed in protective custody along with snitches. Despite popular belief it's not good for prisons to have guys killed or assaulted while they are under the prison's care, especially not well known guys.
 
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jerry1594

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Foffy said:
Five years for this? Like, I know we punish people badly for this, but that's a massive volume of stuff.

I do wonder if we as a society can ever realize people don't choose these types of interests, that free will doesn't actually exist. We don't really have any sort of system to truly help these people other than jailing them, do we? That doesn't get rid of the urges and intrinsic wants of the person, though.

At least he's famous enough that after his prison sentence, he can't really get away with this in secret again. I find it hard for him to be a repeat offender with his fame.
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He can choose to not possess or watch child porn. Tough shit he was born like that or whatever
 
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Averon

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This case will serve as a huge warning to companies that using regular people to be the 'face' of your organization is far too risky. Stick with fictional characters.
 
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Strobelite.Bunny

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It says he was asking prostitutes with access to 15 year or younger girls. I doubt that would be a move they would actually because it's incredibly risky to do, so he probably fell for an obvious trap by the police. Not the brightest guy
 
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Symphonia

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Averon said:
This case will serve as a huge warning to companies that using regular people to be the 'face' of your organization is far too risky. Stick with fictional characters.
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chaobreaker

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Averon said:
This case will serve as a huge warning to companies that using regular people to be the 'face' of your organization is far too risky. Stick with fictional characters.
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The actors playing those characters an still do shady shit on the side as well. See: The guy who played the Scottish dude in the Alexander Keith's commercials.

May as well just use CGI or animated characters instead. At least then the worst thing a company would have to deal with is oodles and oodles rule 34.
 
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Strobelite.Bunny said:
It says he was asking prostitutes with access to 15 year or younger girls. I doubt that would be a move they would actually because it's incredibly risky to do, so he probably fell for an obvious trap by the police. Not the brightest guy
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I haven't seen any evidence he was caught in a prostitution sting. It says he paid actual underage girls for sex, that's not how the police work.
 
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Bubba T

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For those saying they aren't going to eat at Subway again because of these charges, I suspect they: A) Haven't been eating at Subway anyway, or B) Were either unaware or didn't care about Subway's questionable business practices, including the way they run their business chains, and hire and work their employees.

Angelus Errare said:
That's all the time he's getting? wtf? People caught with marijuana have faced longer sentences.

Dude SHOULD be doing 25 to life.
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I think you know why.
 
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ElectricBlanketFire

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Bubba T said:
For those saying they aren't going to eat at Subway again because of these charges, I suspect they: A) Haven't been eating at Subway anyway, or B) Were either unaware or didn't care about Subway's questionable business practices, including the way they run their business chains, and hire and work their employees.
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So you can't take a stand unless you've been taking a stand all along?
 
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Angelus Errare said:
That's all the time he's getting? wtf? People caught with marijuana have faced longer sentences.

Dude SHOULD be doing 25 to life.
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I think he's asking the judge for that plea. It hasn't been accepted yet, but it most likely will considering having 1.4 million dollars to victims can buy a lot of years off what he truly deserves.
 
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Rabbi_Vole

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Averon said:
This case will serve as a huge warning to companies that using regular people to be the 'face' of your organization is far too risky. Stick with fictional characters.
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Could you imagine the uproar if we discovered the ATT gal was an amateur porn star or if Flo was an opportunistic-cannibal?
 
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DrForester

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Averon said:
This case will serve as a huge warning to companies that using regular people to be the 'face' of your organization is far too risky. Stick with fictional characters.
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MCI never recovered after those Astronauts they used on TV turned out to just be actors.

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Bubba T

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ElectricBlanketFire said:
So you can't take a stand unless you've been taking a stand all along?
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Not necessarily. It just seems that people were still complicit with eating there even with the other bad press that the company has gotten and have been directly attributed to, versus protesting when a guy that they pay to market their product (but not a principal owner) gets busted. It didn't really have anything to do with them, and they fired the guy after it became apparent that he's going to jail.
 
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