Hidden camera victim sues Jared Fogle, accomplice

INDIANAPOLIS — An underage Indiana girl secretly filmed changing clothes and bathing by hidden cameras set up by the former head of the Jared Fogle Foundation, who then shared the images with Jared Fogle, has filed a federal lawsuit seeking at least $150,000.

The lawsuit claims the Connersville, Ind., girl was among several children who would visit and stay with Russell Taylor and his wife, Angela, at the couple's homes in Indianapolis. The suit seeks money from Fogle, Taylor and Taylor's wife.

The lawsuit filed Tuesday in the federal district court for the Southern District of Indiana does not name the victim. She is described only as Jane Doe, a minor who lived in Connersville when the videos were made between March 2011 and January 2015.

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Angela Taylor, who has not been charged in the federal child pornography case that sent her husband and his former boss to federal prison, formerly lived in Connersville and has family in the Fayette County community. Court testimony at Taylor's sentencing revealed the children he secretly filmed with cameras hidden in clock radios place in bathrooms and bedrooms included family members and their friends.

The lawsuit says the Taylors assumed responsibility for the minor children in their home and then failed in their duty to protect those children, in part, because they knew they were being recorded while nude and that those images were being shared. The suit also says Fogle knew about the hidden cameras and failed to take any action to protect the children.

Russell Taylor, 44, was sentenced in December to 27 years in prison — a term that will lock him up until he is at least 65 years old. Fogle, 38, was sentenced in November to more than 15 years in prison for his role in the child pornography case that drew international attention..

It was not clear from the lawsuit whether the victim was among 14 minors Fogle paid $100,000 each as part of his plea deal. The money was intended to help with counseling and other needs created by the trauma of being child pornography victims.

"It is accurate that on Tuesday, March 15, 2016, we filed a Complaint for Damages against Jared Fogle, Russell Taylor, and Angela Taylor in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, for the significant emotional trauma our client has suffered," the woman's attorney, M. Michael Stephenson, said in a statement.

"We are confident in Indiana’s legal system and fully intend to allow the legal process to play out in this case. Because of the sensitive nature of the subject matter, we are concerned that our client is not further traumatized; therefore, in an effort to respect our client’s privacy, we will not be making any further comments or statements on this matter at this time."

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The lawsuit says Fogle and the Taylors "had knowledge of the presence of hidden cameras throughout the Taylor residence and knowledge that said hidden cameras were being used with the intent that they would capture various minors changing clothes, showering, bathing, or engaging in other personal and private activities."

​On Wednesday, it was reported that Fogle, the former Subway pitchman, was beaten at the Federal Correctional Institution, Englewood, which is in Littleton, Colo. According to the attacker's family, Steven J. Nigg, 60, wanted to draw attention to the number of prisoners at the minimum-security prison in Colorado who are serving sentences for sexually based offenses.

Taylor, according to the lawsuit, distributed "sexually explicit images of Jane Doe and videos of Jane Doe and other minor children to Jared Fogle."

The lawsuit also says that Angela Taylor "knew or reasonably should have known" about the hidden cameras and failed to help provide a safe environment for the couple's minor guests.

Only one of Taylor's victims has so far spoken publicly about the case — a then-16-year-old girl who appeared on the Dr. Phil show in November.

The blonde, who was identified only as "Analissa," said she was friends with Taylor's stepdaughter and that Taylor bought her beer and vodka when she was 14. She also said he made inappropriate sexual comments and appeared to be grooming her to have sex with him after she turned 16.

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At the time she was visiting the Taylors' home, however, the girl said she did not know she was being photographed or filmed while changing clothes and in the shower. Once she learned she had been a victim, she said her life was turned upside down.

“He took my happiness, he took my trust, he took my pride, everything. I feel so low. I feel like nothing,” she said of Taylor during the televised interview.

There is no indication in the lawsuit if that young woman is the Jane Doe victim now suing Fogle and the Taylors.

Another Jane Doe

It was another "Jane Doe" — this one an adult woman from Indianapolis — who set in motion the criminal probe that ensnared Fogle and Taylor.

The Indianapolis woman knew Taylor and his wife through Jane Doe's husband, who died in 2013.

That friendship took a disturbing turn in 2014, according to court documents. Communications with the woman from Taylor and his wife, often via text messaging, went from friendly and flirtatious to something over the line when Russell Taylor offered to send Jane Doe images of child pornography.

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The woman contacted a state police officer and her report was passed on to an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Cybercrime Unit detective. Investigators from several law enforcement agencies participated in the probe, which ramped up after an interview with Jane Doe in early October 2014. The woman told police she had not deleted Taylor's messages that "concerned her" and provided them access to her cellphone.

The series of text messages included an offer by Taylor to provide her with images of various illegal pornographic acts, including of young girls. She declined. In one of those text messages, according to the affidavit, "Russell Taylor asked her if he and another adult female she identified could come to Jane Doe's residence and engage in" an act of bestiality. The woman did not agree to that request, but told investigators "you could tell (Taylor) was serious." She also told investigators that "she received an image file via text from Russell Taylor that depicted (another act of bestiality)."

It was during a search of Taylor's home in Wayne Township, Ind., that investigators found videos Taylor secretly recorded of the other, underage Jane Doe — along with more girls ages 11 to 16 in a bathroom. Another video depicted a young boy in the bathroom, also nude. There were other videos of some of the same children nude in a bedroom.

Contributing: Ginger Rough and Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic. Follow Tim Evans on Twitter: @starwatchtim