Subway pitchman Jared Fogle’s home raided in child porn investigation

OH MY GOD NO NOT FAT JARED.

That's not Mayo!

From the daily beast:

Longtime Subway spokesman Jared Fogle reached a plea agreement Wednesday on one count of “unlawful commercial sexual acts with minors” and one count of possession of child pornography, according to an agreement released by the U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of Indiana.

Information released Wednesday alleges that Fogle continued to seek sex with minors after his co-conspirator was arrested.

The former Subway sandwich pitchman used escort websites to have sex with two girls under age 18, according to prosecutors. Between 2010 and 2013, Fogle traveled from Indiana to New York to have sex with the minors, one of whom was 17 years old. Fogle had sex with them as a guest of the Plaza and Ritz-Carlton hotels. Fogle told one of the victims he would pay her a fee if she could find a 16-year-old girl to have sex with, “while stating the younger the girl, the better,” prosecutors said.

As part of the plea deal, Fogle will agree to pay each of the 14 victims $100,000 and will serve no less than five years in prison. The man who ran Fogle’s charity for children, Russell Taylor, was named as a co-conspirator who allegedly filmed nude minors without their knowledge to produce child pornography.

Prosecutors say Taylor gave Fogle the child porn and Fogle “made comments approving of this activity and discussed some of these minors by name.”

Fogle's wife, Katie, issued a statement Wednesday morning that she is "extremely shocked and disappointed" by the developments. "I am in the process of seeking a dissolution of the marriage," she said. "My focus is exclusively on the well-being of my children."

Correction: This post originally stated that Fogle pleaded guilty. In fact, Fogle has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors. He is expected to formally plead guilty in court.

A footlong will be free in prison!

I don't know how these guys continue to think with all the spying being done by NSA and local police plus sting operations that they wouldn't get caught.  Five days is a long time for a child molester in prison, five years might as well be a death sentence.  I'm guessing part of his plea deal was to either be placed in a minimum security prison or be placed in solitary confinement.

I've always wondered about this, of which would be better; from what I understand, solitary confinement for any prolonged period of time is its own death sentence. Does a heck of a number on the mind.

Yeah, it's a tough call, solitary confinement or being raped repeatedly by other inmates.  If I were him I'd take my chances with solitary.

I don't want to come off as a bleeding heart because eff this guy for what he did, but in 2015 America, we shouldn't stand for those two things being possibilities, much less alternatives, even for prisoners like this.

What would be your solution? Because I don't see another one given the prison system here in the US.

Well that's the larger problem, isn't it? That we let our prisons have inmate-on-inmate rape occur with such frequency that the NY Post is joking about it on their front page today. It's a larger societal issue that we let it get to that level because there's no incentive to fix it. Literally: felons don't vote and the public, understandably isn't particularly sympathetic. But it's still shameful.

Your meme should give you a clue as to the sociological source of this kind of behavior.

Confine a bunch of aggressive miscreants and they will develop a society that reflects their natural tendencies.

My neighbor is a retired prison guard from Rikers Island, we've had many discussions about the topic and it seems the movies and newspapers overplay the rape and violence to a large extent.  He didn't say rape never happens but it's typically reserved for the child molesters, pedophiles and those who murdered kids.  The prisons know this and usually isolate these types of prisoners from general population, while he was there they also tried to isolate 18-20 year olds for their protection.  He said outside of "prison justice" rape isn't as frequent as the movies would suggest because there are a large number of inmates who willingly provide services in exchange for prison currency or protection.

Those in maximum security prisons are there because they did some really bad stuff and that behavior doesn't change in prison.  Gang members align with members from their gang inside the prison, but overall, each gang goes about it's business.  Obviously incidents happen and prisoners get hurt but very few are murdered.  I was surprised to learn that the two leading causes of death in prison are suicide and heart disease.   I wasn't so surprised by suicide but didn't figure heart disease for #2.

Maximum security prisons hold criminals who are too violent to function in society, if there's not a magic drug or operation to alter that behavior what do you do with them but lock them up in a prison?  I'm pro death penalty but the legal and administrative costs are so high to actually enforce the sentence it's typically not a highly utilized option in states where it's legal.