Thursday, October 29, 2015

Recording Of Jared Fogle Talking About Luring Children To Air On “Dr. Phil”

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Secret recordings of conversations between former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle and an FBI informant, in which he details his attraction to minors and his strategy of sexually manipulating them, will be aired on “Dr. Phil” Thursday and Friday in a two-part installment, according to CBS News.

Rochelle Herman-Walrond, the woman who posed as Fogle’s friend in order to obtain information for federal investigators, will appear on the show and provide additional details about her talks with him.

In one portion of the recording, Fogle is heard describing to Herman-Walrond his interest in children, and how he selects them.

"I like all ages. That's the thing I mean," Fogle says, adding that it depends “who is ready for what. You know, who's going to give you the glance."

He continued to outline his process of coercing minors to have sex with him in the recording.

"We just start sharing stories, and then, you know, we get a little closer, and a little closer, and a little closer, and before you know it, it just starts to happen," he told Herman-Walrond.

He claimed it was not hard “at all.”

In her on-air interview with Dr. Phil Degraw, Herman-Walrond opens up about the emotional impact of her interactions with Fogle.

"I felt like I was so dirty," she tells Dr. Phil. "My soul was dirty."

She added that at one point, Fogle went so far as to suggest an interest in videotaping her own two children.

In the recording, he asks her, "What if we, what if we put a camera in your kids' room, would they be okay with that? Would you rather have it in your son or your daughter's room? Which one do you think would be better?"

Fogle is currently awaiting sentencing after agreeing to accept a plea deal for charges of sex with minors and distributing child pornography. He is expected to pay $1.4 million in restitution to the 14 people he victimized.

Last month, Subway announced that a "serious" complaint about Fogle had been improperly addressed.

A Subway spokesperson told BuzzFeed News in a statement that the company "felt duped and betrayed – and most of all, angry at the harm Mr. Fogle has caused to these children and their families. Our sympathies go out to all of them.”

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