Netflix ‘Cheer’ star Jerry Harris charged with producing youngster pornography

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Celeb cheerleader Jerry Harris, a performer from the Netflix actuality sequence ‘Cheer’ who rose to stardom this 12 months and even interviewed Joe Biden, has been charged with producing youngster pornography.

Harris, 21, was arrested and charged by the FBI on Thursday following an investigation into allegations he solicited images and intercourse from minors.

Federal courtroom data present Harris admitted to brokers that he solicited and acquired specific messages by way of Snapchat from 10 to 15 people, all of whom he knew have been minors. He additionally admitted to paying a 17-year-old for nude images, and allegedly had intercourse with a 15-year-old at a cheering competitors final 12 months.

A prison investigation into Harris was launched after 14-year-old twin brothers Charlie and Sean, whose final names are being stored non-public as a result of they’re minors, got here ahead with allegations Harris had sexually harassed each on-line and at cheer competitions for greater than a 12 months, beginning after they have been 13 and he was 19. 

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Messages reportedly embrace Harris requesting nude images and intercourse from the 2 boys.

Their mom filed reviews with the Forth Value, Texas, police in July after which with the FBI in August. The FBI initiated a search warrant on Harris’ house in Naperville, Illinois, on Monday.

A spokesperson for Harris beforehand denied allegations towards him in an announcement to TMZ, saying “we’re assured that when the investigation is full the true info will likely be revealed.”

Harris gained worldwide consideration and acclaim on social media when ‘Cheer’ premiered on Netflix in January. He was praised as one of many extra outgoing and optimistic personalities on the cheerleading competitors sequence. 

The cheerleader noticed such an increase in stardom, that he hosted an Instagram dialog with presidential hopeful Joe Biden in June, a put up that has now been deleted. The change was a part of Biden’s voter outreach marketing campaign in getting younger individuals to register to vote. 

“I had the chance to talk with Vice President @JoeBiden a couple of days in the past about some actually necessary points going through our nation proper now, specifically younger adults and the Black group,” Harris wrote on the time.

Harris’ arrest has not helped Netflix’s public picture downside in the intervening time, primarily stemming from the discharge of the highly-controversial ‘Cuties’, a movie some have described as youngster pornography for its depiction of minors twerking and dancing in suggestive outfits for adults. The streaming service’s advertising and marketing of the sequence, which put the youngsters and the outfits entrance and middle, has additionally been criticized. 

The ‘Cuties’ controversy escalated on the identical day as Harris’ arrest with over 30 Republican congressmen signing a letter, obtained by The Every day Caller, demanding the Division of Justice prosecute the streaming big for the distribution of “youngster pornography” and “visible fodder for pedophiles.” 

“‘Cuties’ clearly meets the USA’ authorized definition of kid pornography,” the letter reads. “‘Cuties’ incorporates, ‘a scene the place an 11-year-old woman wearing a tank and panties is splashed with water and begins twerking in a frenzied sort of manner,’ and quite a few different, equally distressing depictions of minors together with the show of an 11-year-old youngster’s naked breast.”

“To us, and to the overwhelming majority of People, it’s deeply upsetting to see a mainstream media firm promote the sexualization of youngsters,” they add.

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