Jerry Harris, star of Netflix's 'Cheer,' faces new charges in child pornography case

“Cheer” star Jerry Harris, who was arrested in September on a federal child pornography charge, faces seven additional counts.Prosecutors charged the 21-year-old Thursday with receiving and attempting to receive child pornography, 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, according to an indictment.Harris was also charged with four counts of using, persuading, inducing, and enticing a minor “to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of such conduct.”Attorneys for Harris could not immediately be reached Saturday. In September, his spokesperson released a statement denying the allegations.“We categorically dispute the claims made against Jerry Harris, which are alleged to have occurred when he was a teenager,” the statement said.The indictment involves four alleged victims in Florida, Illinois and Texas and says that the acts took place between August 2017 and August 2020. The victims are not named in the complaint because they are minors.Jerry Harris attends the Build Series to discuss “Cheer” on Jan. 29, 2020 in New York City.Jim Spellman / Getty Images fileAttorneys for two of the victims released a statement on the…
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