SARASOTA, Fla., Aug. 21 (UPI) -- An FBI informant who worked for nearly five years to trip up former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle on child sex crimes detailed the case in interviews with news media Friday -- calling the former pitchman a "monster" who targeted both boys and girls with his perversions.
The informant, Rochelle Herman-Walrond, told WWSB-TV in Sarasota, Fla., Friday that she provided information to the FBI after meeting with Fogle several times over the past decade -- and secretly recording conversations she had with him.
For some reason, she said, Fogle confided in her and discussed his sexual fantasies with children. Herman-Walrond, though, wasn't the only one. It was revealed in court this week that Fogle had also openly talked about the issue with others.
"He talked about sex with underage children ... It was just something that he really, really enjoyed," she said.
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Herman-Walrond claimed Fogle once admitted to her that "middle school girls are hot" -- a comment that she says disturbed her and ultimately encouraged her to inform the FBI.
"He is a monster ... he expressed to me what he wanted to do, what he was doing," she told WWSB-TV. "I took the opportunity to do what I needed to do, because I felt I was put in this position."
Herman-Walrond also said she was surprised it took federal agents so long to arrest Fogle.
"That was my fear, all these years, is the longer it went on the more there was opportunity for more and more victims," she said.
"There was a time he wanted to arrange a party with children," Herman-Walrond said of one particular conversation she had with Fogle. "He would indicate exactly how to proceed with arranging this party and what he would do in order to gain the trust of the children -- and to have his way, to do what it is pedophiles do."
Herman-Walrond said Fogle once even asked her to install hidden video cameras inside her children's bedrooms so he could watch them.
"I had two young children at the time ... and [he] asked me if I would choose which child I would like him to watch," she told CNN's Anderson Cooper.
"I'm happy, I'm shaken, I'm very emotional about it," she said. "It took a lot out of me to bring this to the FBI. But more so, it took a lot out of me to endure all those years working undercover and having to have those conversations with a man that is clearly a sick individual."
Fogle was arrested Wednesday and supposedly admitted to possessing child pornography -- and even hiring underage prostitutes for a period of eight years.
Fogle will face between five and 12 and-a-half years in prison if he makes a plea agreement, which some reports say he will do. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Nov. 19.
Subway, which has used Fogle as its primary pitchman for more than a decade, immediately fired him upon learning of the allegations -- and his wife has filed for divorce.
