{"id":1542845,"date":"2022-07-07T11:19:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T15:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1542845"},"modified":"2022-07-07T11:19:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T15:19:33","slug":"netflix-cheer-star-jerry-harris-sentenced-to-12-years-for-child-pornography-other-sexual-misconduct-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/netflix-cheer-star-jerry-harris-sentenced-to-12-years-for-child-pornography-other-sexual-misconduct-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix \u2018Cheer\u2019 Star Jerry Harris Sentenced To 12 Years For Child Pornography, Other Sexual Misconduct Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnetflix-cheer-star-jerry-harris-sentenced-to-12-years-for-child-pornography-other-sexual-misconduct-charges%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1542845&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/entertainment\">Cheer<\/a>\u201d star Jerry Harris, who gained notoriety on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/netflix\">Netflix<\/a> reality show, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for coercing teenage boys to send him sexual photos and videos of themselves and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/sexual-abuse\">soliciting sex<\/a> from minors.<\/p>\n<p>District Judge Manish Shah handed down the sentencing, which included giving Harris, 22, eight years of court-supervised release following the prison sentence. Shah told him that the punishment was an \u201cexpression of the seriousness of your crimes, tempered with some hope that all is not lost for you or for your victims, and that in the future some healing can occur,\u201d per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/cheer-jerry-harris-sentenced-child-pornography-case-1235176374\/\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Harris pleaded guilty earlier this year to one count of receiving child pornography and one count of traveling with the intention to engage in illegal sexual conduct.<\/p>\n<p>At the sentencing, Harris apologized to his victims and said he\u2019s not an \u201cevil person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply sorry for all the trauma my abuse has caused you. I pray deep down that your suffering comes to an end,\u201d the \u201cCheer\u201d alum said. \u201cI\u2019m not an evil person. I\u2019m still learning who I am and what my purpose is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris was arrested in September 2020 for soliciting videos and images from 14-year-old brothers. The indictment said that Harris also admitted to requesting images on Snapchat from 10 to 15 boys he knew were minors.<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors said Harris admitted to repeatedly asking a minor teen for pornographic videos and images between December 2018 and March 2020, per THR. Multiple incidents occurred across the country in Illinois, Florida, and Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the conviction, Harris was one of the most popular characters on \u201cCheer\u201d thanks to his encouraging, upbeat attitude and the support of his fellow cheerleaders during practices and competitions. The docuseries followed the Navarro College cheer team from Corsicana, Texas, as they competed on a national level.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fans were so enamored by Harris\u2019 charm that he was tapped to interview celebrities on the red carpet at the Academy Awards for \u201cThe Ellen DeGeneres Show\u201d before the sexual misconduct charges were filed. Season 2 of \u201cCheer\u201d continued without Harris\u2019 involvement because of the pending trial. Decider <a href=\"https:\/\/decider.com\/2022\/01\/12\/cheer-season-2-jerry-harris\/\">reported<\/a> that documentary-makers reached out to Harris to set up an interview while he was in prison awaiting sentencing, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/netflix-cheer-star-jerry-harris-pleads-guilty-to-child-sexual-abuse-image-charges\">The Daily Wire<\/a>, but he turned them down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former \u201cCheer\u201d star Jerry Harris, who gained notoriety on the Netflix reality show, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for coercing teenage boys to send him sexual photos and videos of themselves and soliciting sex from minors. District Judge Manish Shah handed down the sentencing, which included giving Harris, 22, eight years of court-supervised &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1546980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1546980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}