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Jared Fogle, the former Subway spokesperson who pleaded guilty to having sex with minors and distributing child pornography will be sentenced Thursday.
He entered a guilty plea Thursday morning to one count of conspiracy to distribute child porn and another to traveling to New York to have sex with minors. The judge made it clear that there is nothing in the plea agreement that bars the victims from seeking additional restitution.
In August, Fogle accepted a plea deal that could send him behind bars for 5 to 12 and a half years. Last week, prosecutors argued that Fogle should be sentenced to 12 years in prison and pay $1.4 million to the 14 girls filmed in pornographic videos he viewed.
Following his guilty plea, court took a short recess and resumed with the defense calling forensic psychiatrist Dr. John Bradford, who is an expert on sexual deviations, to testify. Bradford had conducted an evaluation on Fogle in August after spending five hours with him on the phone discussing his sexual experiences with minors.
Bradford testified that Fogle's significant weight loss caused him to develop a "hyper-sexuality." Bradford also said that he had diagnosed Fogle with "mild pedophilia." Fogle admitted that he paid for sex with girls as young as 16.
The psychiatrist added that Fogle's crimes are "more normal" than having sex with an 11-year-old.
Fogle, 38, is accused of traveling to New York City to pay minors to perform sexual acts on him at expensive hotels. He is also charged with receiving child pornography that was produced by the former executive director of the Jared Foundation, Russell Taylor. All of the incidents with minors took place between March 2011 and January 2015.
In November, Dr. Phil aired an interview with a teen who said she was “brainwashed and manipulated” by Taylor. The girl told Phil McGraw that when she was 14 years old, she was groomed to have sex with Taylor while she would spend time at his house, drinking beer and vodka.
Previously, the show aired an episode that revealed secret audio recordings of Fogle talking to an FBI informant about his attraction to minors and his strategy of sexually manipulating them.
“I like all ages. That’s the thing I mean,” Fogle said in the recordings, adding that it depends “who is ready for what. You know, who’s going to give you that glance.”
Subway terminated his contract shortly after the news broke.
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