Jeremiah “Jerry” Harris, the breakout star from Netflix’s reality TV series
Cheer, is now facing additional charges related to child pornography and sexual misconduct with a minor following his initial arrest for similar alleged crimes in September.
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On Thursday, the U.S. District Court of Northern Illinois filed a seven-count indictment against Harris, related to incidents involving minors from 2017 to August of this year, reports NBC. He is charged with using the internet to “persuade, induce, and entice” a minor, and traveling from Texas to Florida “for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct” with a minor, and inducing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for child pornography purposes.
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Cheer star Jerry Harris faces new charges in indictment
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Dec. 12 (UPI) A federal grand jury in Illinois has indicted Jeremiah Jerry Harris, star of the reality show
Cheer, on new child pornography charges.
The new counts were filed Thursday and made public Friday.
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Harris, 21, faces four counts of using, persuading, inducing and enticing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visible depiction. He was also charged with one count each of interstate travel with the intent to engage in a sexual act with a minor, enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity, receiving and attempting to receive child pornography.
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CHICAGO (WLS) Cheer star Jerry Harris, already facing federal child pornography charges, has been indicted on new charges that allege he solicited sex from minors at cheerleading competitions and convinced teenage boys to send him obscene photographs and videos of themselves.
The new seven-count indictment that was made public on Friday was not unexpected. In the original complaint filed in September, not only did prosecutors allege that Harris admitted to FBI agents to asking a teenage boy to send him lewd photographs of himself, but that he requested on Snapchat child pornography from at least 10 to 15 others he knew to be minors.