Summary: Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle has been served a 15-year sentence for his child-pornography charge.
The sentence the judge handed out to former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle proved harsher than the defense’s 5 year hopes, or even the 12 ½ years sought by the prosecutors. U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt ordered over a full 15 years, with parole possible only after 13.
She said his life as a Subway spokesman was a “gift” but that he wasted the chance. “The level of perversion and lawlessness exhibited by Mr. Fogle is extreme.”
One instance of this lawlessness was when Fogle offered $300 for a 15-year-old who could prove her age. He had written “It’s what I crave.”
That he gave up the cravings of his eating disorder for cravings for teenager females is a more common “perversion” than polite company will admit, but seeking teenage prostitutes in various states during his travels is not so common, and nor was owning child pornography with children as young as six-years-old.
“I want to redeem my life,” said Fogle with emotion-wracked voice, during his sentencing.
He also said that he was caught up in “deception, lies, and complete self-centeredness,” and further, since his arrest in August, he’s said he “learned so much about the underage minors with whom I’ve paid to have sex with. Not a day will go by that I don’t think about them, what I did and the impact on their lives.”
News Source: NBC News