Posted on 07/07/2022 9:22:30 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
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.
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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.
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.
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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 “child predator” who “took advantage of a power imbalance to sexually exploit his young victims,” prosecutors said in one filing.
That power was derived in part from Harris’s role in the Netflix series “Cheer,” they added.
Harris was removed from the show’s cast after his arrest.
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 “traumatic” 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, Shah told Harris to consider the sentence an “expression 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.”
Apology During the sentencing hearing, before the sentence was announced, Harris apologized.
“I am deeply sorry for all the trauma my abuse has caused you. I pray deep down that your suffering comes to an end,” he said to the boys he preyed upon.
“I’m not an evil person,” Harris said. “I’m still learning who I am and what my purpose is.”
Sarah Klein, an attorney for two of the victims, issued a statement saying Harris’s guilt was “firmly established.”
“The sentence he received reflects the severity of his crimes and the lifetime of pain his victims will suffer,” Klein said.
Jerry Harris, 22... 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.
Well, we know being a pedo wasn’t what got him arrested. What else do they have on him?
“In court, Shah told Harris to consider the sentence an “expression of the seriousness of your crimes, tempered with some hope that all is not lost for you...”
Judges on these cases should be required to read through about 100 studies that all found pedophiles can’t stop themselves from reoffending (and pass a written exam on the findings) before they are allow to pass sentence.
Then if they still give a lenient sentence, they should be required to house the pedophile in their own home when the pedo is released.
‘what is a “surrogate” for Joe Biden??’
A stupid newspeak term for a celebrity endorser.
You’re sure?
I never heard of the guy.
I would have thought the reporter would have clarified the point if that’s what it was.
I would have guessed that he posed as Biden to get access to kids?
Birds of feather.
Takes one to know one.
“You’re sure?”
Yes.
This country would be a lot better off if these child predators were publicly executed.
Thank you.
That one had me scratching my head.
Actor then producer Dan Schneider 56 years old from Nickelodeon has been accused of having misc women at work massage him and for some reason he likes teenage girls feet. Video compilations of that at youtube....
He also liked to yell and send emails to teenagers after work at all hours.
He was dumped by Nickelodeon in 2018 after 30 years there.
Actor Drake Bell from Nickelodeon accused of sexual contact and grooming an underage fan. Plead guilty to felony child endangerment. Sentence to 2 years probation.
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