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Talk about a fall from grace.
Former Subway spokesperson Jared Fogle is expected to plead guilty to possession of child pornography this morning, but according to a plea agreement released by the U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of Indiana, Fogle will also plead guilty to soliciting sex from minors.
Per Business Insider:
Fogle is facing one count of traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and one count for the distribution and receipt of child pornography and conspiracy to distribute and receive child pornography.
He is expected to plead guilty to the charges, which involve at least 14 girls and boys under the age of 18.
He faces between five and 20 years in prison, though prosecutors have agreed not to ask for more than 12 years. As part of a plea agreement, he will pay $100,000 to each victim, for a total of $1.4 million. He will appear before a judge at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Indianapolis.
According to charging documents, Fogle “repeatedly engaged in Internet social networking and traveled for the purpose of engaging in commercial sexual activity” between 2007 and February 2015.
He often arranged his business trips to coincide with his sexual pursuits, the documents show.
Several times he traveled to New York City to engage in sex with minors under the age of 18, according to the documents.
On one of the occasions, in November 2012, Fogle allegedly paid a 17-year-old for sexual acts at the Plaza Hotel in New York.
On the following day, he asked the girl in a text message if she would find him another underage girl with whom he could have sex. During the discussions he said “the younger the girl, the better,” according to the documents.
Fogle again traveled to New York City in January 2013 to have sex with the same 17-year-old girl at the Ritz Carlton hotel, the documents state. The girl claims Fogle also paid her for sex on three separate occasions when she was 16.
Fogle allegedly tried repeatedly to solicit minors for sex through other escorts, as well.
“The Defendant repeatedly sent text messages to several escorts … soliciting them to provide him with access to minors as young as 14 to 15 years for purposes of commercial sex acts with him,” the documents state. “He did this only after engaging in commercial sexual acts with the escorts to insure that they were not undercover police officers.”
Fogle was in contact with several other women between 2007 and 2015 who weren’t escorts and “expressed his desire to engage in sexual acts with young minors.”
“In some cases, he stated that he has done so in the past,” the documents show.
Wow.
For more on this developing story (and to read the charging documents against Fogle), head over to Business Insider.