Analissa, a teenage victim in former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle‘s sex scandal, has come forward to talk about how she was groomed by his business partner Russell Taylor.

Jared Fogle Victim Speaks Out

Analissa recently appeared on Dr. Phil, where she revealed that Taylor first approached her two years ago, when she was just 14-years-old. According to Analissa, she and other teens were often invited to Russell’s house, where he provided them with alcohol and allowed them to stay overnight.

On the show, Analissa said that she had a “weird feeling of something going on, but at the time I didn’t really understand that.” Among the many inappropriate things Russell did was have conversations about sex with her. “He asked if I had ever experienced an orgasm,” Analissa told Dr. Phil. “And just had me convinced to have sex with him at 16.”

Though it wasn’t routine for the teens gathered at Taylor’s house to walk around in the nude, Taylor, who had video cameras installed around the property, would try to catch them naked.

“We never really just normally walked around with no clothes on, but he’d come in and try to catch something. He kind of looked happy or aroused [when he did],” Analissa revealed. “He’d stay for about a minute or so, but then we’d shut the door.”

The aftermath of Taylor’s abuse has left Analissa scarred. As she continues to deal with the damage Taylor – and by association Fogle – caused her, Analissa struggles with feelings of guilt.

“He took my happiness, he took my trust, he took my pride, everything. I feel so low. I feel like nothing,” Analissa told Dr. Phil. “I know now that wasn’t right for me to act that way. I know it wasn’t right to drink alcohol. I know it wasn’t right to let someone see you in no clothes and to let someone just talk to you that way. And I do blame myself a lot because I feel like I fed into it by letting him talk to me that way.”

Fogle, who will be sentenced in his child pornography and sex crime case next week, is asking for leniency. While prosecutors are seeking a sentence of 12 years and seven months, Fogle’s attorneys are asking for a five-year prison term on the grounds that his victims were in their mid teens.

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Article by Chelsea Regan

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