Emerson Phillips
A divorced Indiana couple who prosecutors say shared sexually explicit photos and videos of children with former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle received a hefty prison sentence from a federal court Monday in Indianapolis.
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Angela Baldwin, 40, received 33 years and four months in prison. In a jury trial in October, she was found guilty of two counts of producing child sexual abuse material, one count of conspiracy to produce such material, and one count of possessing it.
Her ex-husband Russell Taylor, 50, pleaded guilty last year to 30 child pornography and sexual exploitation counts for his acts against nine children. Taylor was sentenced Monday to 27 years behind bars, the Justice Department said.
Taylor was executive director of the Jared Foundation, the nonprofit that Fogle started to fight childhood obesity. Taylor provided evidence that led to the criminal case against Fogle, his one-time boss and close friend.
Taylor, Baldwin and Fogle shared what U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt called a “mutual perversion.”
During Taylor’s sentencing hearing, Pratt described the four-year grooming, exploitation and molestation of the children from 2011-2015. The victims were ages nine to 16 when the crimes occurred.
Some of the children are Taylor and Baldwin’s relatives.
In court Monday, Taylor described himself as a “vile, selfish, self-loathing, sorry excuse” for a human, but that time in prison had changed him. He said he had taken advantage of a sex offender rehabilitation class while incarcerated.
The couple shared with Fogle videos and photos of the girls that were captured by hidden cameras Taylor installed in the then-couple’s Indianapolis home, prosecutors said.
One of the victims said she checks for cameras anytime she’s in the bathroom at a house that isn’t hers.
