Jared Fogle

Trigger warning: This article contains details of child abuse. For 15 years, he was a fast-food spokesperson turned pop culture icon with a dark secret.

Indeed, the former face of Subway was sentenced to 15 years and eight months in a Colorado prison and agreed to pay each of his victims $14,000 in restitution. He will try to make amends to the people he affected.” “He had leaned over to me and, above a whisper, he leaned over and he said how hot he thought middle school girls were,” a shocked Herman recalled to the [New York Post](https://nypost.com/2023/03/06/subway-guy-jared-fogles-secret-calls-revealed-in-new-documentary/). “What we found in Russell Taylor’s home and on his computers led us to Jared Fogle,” Tim Horty, spokesman for the US Attorney, told “He just can’t be around child molesters. ’cause it’s what I crave!” he wrote in a text message. Taylor plead guilty to child sex crimes and was sentenced to 27 years in federal prison. He was subsequently hired by the chain to advertise its health merits and appeared in over 300 commercials during his time as the face of Subway restaurants. In 2015, however, he fell from grace after becoming the subject of a Federal Bureau of Investigation probe that revealed him to be a pedophile. He then asked Herman, “Would you rather have a little boy or a little girl pleasure you?” During a raid of his home, authorities discovered Taylor had hidden cameras throughout the home and in the bedrooms of his stepdaughters, Christian Showalter and Hannah Parrett, who were interviewed as part of the Investigation Discovery documentary. Audio reveals Fogel also talking about a sexual encounter he had with a “little boy” in Thailand.

Two of Jared Fogle's victims, Christian Showalter and Hannah Parrett, spoke to Newsweek ahead of the launch of a new discovery+ docuseries.

And it means the world to us that someone also didn't think it was OK.' "Back in 2015, when Russell and Jared were first arrested, we would get to school and we would literally overhear students and teachers talking about the things that they saw on the news, and they knew it was directly related to us." "She didn't even know that we were being abused the whole time that she was trying to catch him. Over the years, the sisters have come to terms with it and no longer feel as vulnerable out in public. A local journalist started secretly recording him and became an informant for the "It almost felt like we were under a microscope, or maybe even more so that we were being judged, not for what we'd done, but they were judging the situation." The sisters were never physically sexually abused by Fogle, but they do talk of a meeting with the Subway spokesperson where he said inappropriate things to the young girls in attendance. "Whenever I would hear Jared's name, or for example, when the media was just flooded with news articles of our stepdad, Russell [Taylor] and Jared, and all these different things, that brought a lot of emotions a few years ago." [The details of Fogle's crimes,](https://www.newsweek.com/ten-victims-subway-spokesman-jared-fogle-receive-1-million-386457) and the fascinating story of how he was caught, is told in the new three-part discovery+ docuseries Jared From Subway: Catching a Monster. While victims of sexual assault crimes are entitled to remain anonymous, Parrett and Showalter never felt this was an option. He was also convicted of traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor. [Fogle was synonymous with the fast-food chain Subway](https://www.newsweek.com/jareds-way-subpar-85539), filming more than 300 commercials in that time.

Hannah Parrett and Christian Showalter have spoken out in the true-crime docuseries "Jared from Subway: Catching a Monster." It explores how the sandwich ...

"She still, even to this day, acts as if she was a victim and tries to paint the picture that she was coerced into doing the things that she did. "And that’s not a way to live. "I let my trauma define who I was," said Parrett. "For a very long time, I was engaging in risky sexual behavior. "When Russell was arrested, I was just really confused," said Parrett. "I am a recovering drug addict," she said. I was so confused because I was so young. "Jared was the puppet master," Parrett said. "And Russell was the puppet. The more I tell my story, the more healed I become." "Russell sent Jared a photo of one of my best friends," said Showalter. "I think it was after the arrest when I started becoming more educated on sexual abuse, child pornography, pedophilia," Parrett told Fox News Digital.