CHICAGO (AP) — A prosecutor has requested a federal resolve to condemn Jerry Harris, a former star of the Netflix documentary sequence “Cheer,” to fifteen years in jail for coercing teenage boys to ship him obscene footage and flicks of themselves and soliciting intercourse from minors at cheerleading competitions.
Attorneys for Harris are in quest of a sentence of six years.
Assistant U.S. Lawyer Kelly Guzman wrote in a sentencing memo late Wednesday that Harris used “his standing as a aggressive cheerleader, his social media persona, and in the long run his celeb and cash, to impression and entice his youthful victims to work collectively in sexually categorical conduct for him or with him.”
Guzman furthermore requested the sentence embrace 10 years of supervised launch after the jail time interval.
Harris, 22, of suburban Naperville, pleaded guilty earlier this 12 months to on the very least one rely every of receiving teenager pornography and touring with the intention to work collectively in unlawful sexual conduct. He is on account of be sentenced July 6 by U.S. District Resolve Manish Shah.
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“The trauma he educated as a toddler normalized his skewed model of what he understood to be related relationships. 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He’s grateful that’s not the case for his victims on this case, to whom he’s profoundly remorseful.” security attorneys wrote.
Federal prosecutors acknowledged the actor’s traumatic childhood was a mitigating take into accounts his crimes, nonetheless talked about “whereas Harris’s childhood was very sturdy, it was not a transparent affirm to commit intercourse offenses in opposition to minors.”
Harris stays in custody at a federal detention facility.
Harris was arrested in September 2020 on a value of manufacturing of kid pornography. Prosecutors alleged on the time that he solicited movement footage and pictures from two 14-year-old brothers.
Primarily based fully completely totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally on a criticism, federal prosecutors talked about that Harris admitted to repeatedly asking a minor teen for pornographic movement footage and pictures between December 2018 and March 2020.
Then in December of that 12 months, he was indicted on more charges alleging misconduct in Illinois, Florida and Texas. Primarily based fully completely totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally on the indictment, Harris allegedly solicited intercourse from minors at cheerleading competitions and totally blissful teenage boys to ship him obscene footage and flicks of themselves.
Harris admitted to FBI brokers to asking a teenage boy to ship him lewd footage of himself, and to requesting teenager pornography on Snapchat from on the very least 10 to fifteen others he knew to be minors, based totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally totally on the indictment.
“Cheer” was an infinite success when it was launched in January 2020 and Harris turned wildly widespread for his upbeat perspective and his encouraging “mat converse.” Harris even interviewed celebrities on the pink carpet on the Academy Awards for “The Ellen DeGeneres Present.”
The docuseries follows the aggressive cheerleading squad from Navarro Faculty in Corsicana, Texas.