On Thursday, the former commercial spokesman for the Subway company, Jared Fogle, was sentenced to 15 years and 8 months on child pornography possession charges as well as for traveling across state lines to have sex with a minor child. The ruling came down at the federal court in Indianapolis.

The judge was asked to sentence Fogel, 38, to more than the 12-and-one-half years, more than is usually recommended in these cases. The prosecution believed Fogle’s criminal behavior to be so vile that they sought more jail time. Apparently, Judge Tanya Pratt agreed with the prosecution’s argument regarding sentencing, reports USA Today.

For federal prison time, a prisoner must serve at least 85 percent of the sentence before becoming eligible for parole. The judge, in her public statement said, “Federal judges do not sentence based on emotion or public sentiment. The level of perversion and lawlessness exhibited by Mr. Fogel is extreme.”

Judge Pratt discussed Fogel’s rise and fall. She explained his privileged upbringing when, as a young man, he became addicted to, and obsessed with, child pornography. She also talked about his college days of battling morbid obesity until he was discovered by the marketing department for Subway and became their sandwich pitchman.

Fogel had established a non-profit to handle the enormous amount of revenue coming in from his fame and from Subway commercials. The man he hired to run the organization, Russell Taylor, 44, produced at least 12 films of a pornographic nature featuring children which he shared with Fogel. The children in the movies were all children he had known. Taylor gets sentenced in December.

The judge said she believes that Fogel is remorseful and Fogel has paid at least $1.4 million in restitution so far. Fogel told the court that there came a point in his life when he became self-centered and lived according to that dictate.