Note: The audio of this interview may be disturbing to some listeners.
Jared Fogle, the now-ex-spokesman for the Subway restaurant chain, has agreed to pay $1.4 million in restitution to the 14 underage victims in his child sexual exploitation case, as part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors.
Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson speaks with David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, about the broader problem of child sexual exploitation in the U.S. and around the world.
Guest
- David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. He’s author of “Childhood Victimization: Violence, Crime, and Abuse in the Lives of Young People.”
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