Former Netflix Star Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison for Child Pornography

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A star of a Netflix series about young cheerleaders was sentenced on July 6 to 12 years in prison.

Jerry Harris, 22, was ordered imprisoned for 12 years, followed by eight years of supervised release.

U.S. Judge Manish Shah, an Obama appointee, handed down the sentence in federal court in Chicago.

Harris, a surrogate for then-candidate Joe Biden, was arrested in 2020 after authorities said he sent explicit videos and photographs to a young boy and solicited explicit materials from the male.

Pleaded Guilty

Harris pleaded guilty in February to one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of traveling with the intent to engage in illegal sexual conduct.

In the plea agreement, Harris admitted that he received the explicit materials from the boy in exchange for $2,000. He also said he asked for and received child pornography from two other young boys, and traveled from Texas to Florida in 2019 to meet a 15-year-old boy, who he sexually assaulted.

Harris is a โ€œchild predatorโ€ who โ€œtook advantage of a power imbalance to sexually exploit his young victims,โ€ prosecutors said in one filing.

That power was derived in part from Harrisโ€™s role in the Netflix series โ€œCheer,โ€ they added.

Harris was removed from the showโ€™s cast after his arrest.

Sentencing

Harris faced up to 50 years in prison.

Prosecutors requested 15 years in jail, followed by 10 years of supervised release, due to factors such as what was termed a โ€œtraumaticโ€ childhood.

Lawyers for the defendant said he should only receive a 72-month sentence, due to being sexually abused as a minor and other problems that took place when he was younger.

In court,ย Shah told Harris to consider the sentence an โ€œexpression 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.โ€

Byย Zachary Stieber

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