New York Daily News

Perv alerts missed: suit by Jared ex

- Jason Silverstei­n

SUBWAY IGNORED complaints about its pedophile pitchman Jared Fogle for more than a decade, parading him around children while reaping billions of dollars in profit, Fogle’s ex-wife charged in a lawsuit filed Monday.

Katie McLaughlin’s suit says Subway “failed every test of corporate responsibi­lity” until Fogle’s bust last year for a series of child sex crimes.

The sandwich restaurant chain dismissed at least three complaints about Fogle’s “depravitie­s” — with the first coming in 2004, McLaughlin’s complaint contends.

“The safety of kids was not a priority but Subway’s bottom line was,” it says.

In a tearful press conference in Noblesvill­e, Ind., McLaughlin, 37, said she demands answers about why Subway never cracked down on its dieting spokesman.

“I filed this lawsuit because I have questions,” she said.

“Questions that someday my children will ask me and that I imagine the families of the 14 victims are asking. Questions to which I have no other way to get answers. Questions like, ‘What did Subway know and when did they know it?’”

Fogle, 39, joined Subway in 2000 and spent 15 years as its primary pitchman. He was busted last July on child porn charges, and later pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison in November. McLaughlin filed for divorce after the arrest.

Subway declined comment.

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