Meet the Florida journalist who took down Jared Fogle

May 2024 · 2 minute read

The Florida journalist who allegedly helped expose ex-Subway pitchman Jared Fogle as a child predator cooperated with feds for four-and-a-half years, according to new reports.

Rochelle Herman-Walrond, 47, wore a wire and secretly recorded conversations she had with Fogle about his disturbing behavior, ABC News reported.

“He would tell me ages that he was interested in — boy or girl,” she said. “He would also indicate the fact that he has done it before and told me in gross detail what transpired.”

Indiana authorities announced Wednesday that Fogle will plead guilty to traveling to engage in illicit sexual contact and distribution and receipt of child pornography.

He faces five to 12½ years in prison and will also pay $1.4 million — or $100,000 to each of his 14 victims, prosecutors said.

“I was shocked. I was stunned. I couldn’t believe what I just heard,” said Herman-Walrond of learning of the charges.

She is credited with prompting feds to raid Fogle’s Zionsville, Ind., home in July after tipping them off that Fogle told her he thought “middle school girls are hot.”

“Those children suffer — those children’s lives have changed forever,” Herman-Walron said of Fogle’s victims.

The FBI has not confirmed Herman-Walron’s account, ABC said.

From 2007 to this past June, Fogle, 37, traveled from state to state in order to engage in “commercial sexual activity,” including with minors, feds said.

He allegedly paid to sleep with two underage girls in New York City and possessed kiddie porn featuring a dozen kids who were secretly taped by Fogle’s then-business partner, Russell Taylor.

Fogle was released on home detention and GPS monitoring following his brief court appearance Wednesday and will plead guilty at a later time, his attorney said.

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