Former “Cheer” star Jerry Harris has pleaded guilty to felony child pornography and child sex charges in federal court.
Jerry Harris, former star of the Netflix documentary series"Cheer," pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges of receiving child pornography and soliciting sex from minors that could keep him in prison for decades.
Harris, 22, pleaded guilty to two of seven felony counts against him, one for persuading a 17-year-old to send him sexually explicit photographs for money and the other stemming from a trip he took to Florida for the purpose of"engaging in illicit sexual conduct" with a 15-year-old. Prosecutors agreed to drop the remaining five counts under a plea agreement.
Harris, who is from the Chicago suburb of Naperville, was arrested in September 2020 on a charge of production of child pornography. Prosecutors alleged at the time that he solicited videos and images from two 14-year-old brothers.
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