Ex-Cheer star Jerry Harris sentenced to 12 years in prison for child sexual abuse images charges

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Ex-Cheer star Jerry Harris sentenced to 12 years in prison for child sexual abuse images charges
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22-year-old breakout star on Netflix’s cheerleading show had pleaded guilty to crimes relating to child abuse images and soliciting sex from minors

series Cheer, has been sentenced to 12 years behind bars in the US for crimes relating to child sexual abuse images and soliciting sex from minors.

Judge Manish S Shah handed the social media star and cheerleading champion the sentence at a federal court inon Wednesday. Harris, who has remained in custody at a federal detention facility since his arrest in September 2020, appeared in court for the sentence. Notable figures listed as authors of character letters to be used by the defence included other stars of Cheer such as the Navarro college head coach, Monica Aldama, teammate Morgan Simianer, and the parents of Gabi Butler, one of Harris’s fellow cheerleaders.to one count of travelling with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and one count of receiving child sexual abuse images.

A US child sexual abuse images charge carries a sentence ranging from five to 20 years and the second charge carries a maximum sentence of 30 years.

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