Jerry Harris of ”Çheer” Received a 12-year Sentence for Child Sex Abuse

Jerry Harris, one of the “Cheer” docuseries’ breakout stars, was giving a 12-year prison term on Wednesday after pleading guilty to federal charges involving pictures of child sex abuse

Jerry Harris, a former member of “Cheer,” received a 12-year sentence for child sex abuse.

The 22-year-old Harris was charged with seven counts of procuring child pornography and coercing minors into having sex the period August 2017 until August 2020. According to prosecutors, suffering in Texas, Florida, and Illinois were affecting by the acts. . According to Joseph D. Fitzpatrick, an assistant US attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, his sentence was 12 years in prison, following by 8 years of court-supervised release.

On a memo on sentence, prosecutors argued Used by Harris. They say “his status as a competitive cheerleader, his social media persona, and eventually his celebrity and money.” This was to influence young boys to send sexually explicit content. Also that he should receive a 15-year sentence.  Prosecutors claims that Harris, who market himself as a “mentor who could be trust,” would put pressure on his victims and offer to pay them in exchange for favors and sexual activity. The sentencing memorandum states that after that failed, he “threatened to disseminate the videos they had sent if they refused to continue.”

Prosecutors stated that

Harris’ behavior continued until his arrest in September 2020. According to court documents, Harris’ attorneys argues that their client was sexually abuse as a child. Thus had a “skew version of what he understandable to be appropriate relationships.” They requests six years in prison.

 In court on Wednesday, Harris apologized to his victims.

“I apologies for the trauma my abuse has caused you. “I pray that you’re suffering ends,” Harris says, according to his attorneys. The former cheerleader and television star initially plead not guilty to the charges. But change her plea in February to guilty to two of the indictment’s counts. It was on receiving child porn and travelling over state lines to have sex with a kid are both prohibite.

Two of those hurt are twin brothers. While they were both at a cheerleading competition, one of the guys informe police. The information was that Harris was asking him for oral sex in a lavatory. According to a unsatisfactory. Harris was also accuse of contacting the boy in 2018. It was on Instagram Harris the age 19 boy was 13, the complaining said.

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