Jared Fogle Victim Speaks Up

November 10th, on Dr. Phil, the first found victim of the Jared Fogle sex scandal spoke out.

16 year old Analisa, told Dr Phil about her life altering experience with Russell Taylor, the former Executive Director of The Jared Foundation, who had been secretly recording her when she was just 14.

Two weeks ago , Dr. Phil showed secret audio recordings of the former Subway spokesperson talking about luring and abusing children. This made Analissa contact the show because she couldn’t remain silent any longer and felt compelled to speak for the other victims.

One of WTHRs reporters asked Dr. Phil how he found Analissa’s story.

“You know what? I want to come forward. I want to tell my story,” Analissa said, “There are others out there like me, either in this situation, in this case or others sitting silent or suffering and I don’t want that to happen. “

After talking to Analissa, Dr Phil found she was a very intellectual young girl who is now able to recognize threats.

“…if she looks back at this now with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight she’s like, ‘oh, my. I now recognize what grooming was going on. I now recognize what a mistake I made,” Dr Phil said, “I now recognize the manner in which I was victimized.”

Thogh this was a terrible experience, it helped Analissa learn.

“This is a teachable moment and I think every parent needs to watch what is going on here.” Dr Phil said.

Analissa said Russell Taylor would often make inappropriate sexual comments with her she was at his home and during the investigation, she and her mother found that hidden cameras had been placed by Taylor throughout the home.

“He seemed okay at first. He seemed like a nice person, but as time progressed, it kind of got creepier and creepier,” Analissa said.

She now thinks he was grooming her to have sex with him for when she turned 16. That fortunately never happened, however, the experience left Analissa with emotional scars that will take a long time to heal.

“He took my happiness, he took my trust, he took my pride, everything. I feel so low. I feel like nothing,” Analissa said.

This affects me because Analissa was my age when she was being groomed and it is extremely sad that such a young girl had to go through this traumatizing event.
This affects the world because Child molestation and rape is a rising epidemic all around the world and new technology is making it that much easier.

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