Ex-Subway pitchman blames victims parents
Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle’s legal attempt to shift the blame onto the parents of one of his child pornography victims for the girl’s emotional distress is a “bizarre” argument, one legal expert said Friday.
In a motion filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis, Fogle’s attorneys asked a federal judge to approve a third-party complaint to add the girl’s parents as defendants in the daughter’s suit, which seeks at least $300,000 in damages.
The filing argues that the parents of the girl – who unknowingly appeared in some of the child pornography that led to Fogle’s criminal conviction last year – are to blame for what it describes as her “destructive behaviors.”
It contends they fought and abused alcohol in front of her and may be liable for some or all of her claims Fogle faces in the suit, arguing that that family strife and their acrimonious divorce are among the causes of the girl’s distress.
