‘Cheer’ star Jerry Harris was sentenced on Wednesday to 12 years in a federal prison for traveling with the intent to have sex with a minor and receiving child pornography. The male cheerleader, who once campaigned for Joe Biden, had five additional charges against him dropped as part of a plea deal.
Harris was handed his sentence by a federal court in Chicago on Wednesday. The Netflix star had been in custody since his arrest in September 2020, and pleaded guilty in February to two out of seven charges against him, including traveling with the intent to engage in “illicit sexual conduct” with a 15-year-old boy and paying a 17-year-old for sexually explicit images.
Five additional charges – which involved Harris soliciting sex from teenage boys at cheerleading events and receiving obscene photographs of them – were dropped as part of the plea bargain. During an FBI investigation, Harris admitted to agents that he asked for and received sexually explicit images of 10 to 15 individuals, all of whom he knew to be minors…
