{"id":72829,"date":"2022-07-07T00:47:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/former-cheer-star-jerry-harris-sentenced-to-12-years-for-sex-crimes"},"modified":"2022-07-07T00:47:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T00:47:00","slug":"former-cheer-star-jerry-harris-sentenced-to-12-years-for-sex-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/former-cheer-star-jerry-harris-sentenced-to-12-years-for-sex-crimes","title":{"rendered":"Former &#8216;Cheer&#8217; star Jerry Harris sentenced to 12 years for sex crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sentenced: Jerry Harris was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison on Wednesday. (John Locher\/Associated Press )Former &#8220;Cheer&#8221; star Jerry Harris on Wednesday was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for sex crimes.Harris, 22, of Naperville, Illinois, who starred in the Netflix docuseries, was sentenced by a federal judge in Chicago after he pleaded guilty in February to federal charges related to soliciting child sexual abuse imagery and illegal sexual conduct with a minor, Variety reported.U.S. District Judge Manish Shah also ordered Harris to serve eight years of court-supervised release after he completes his sentence, according to The Associated Press.Jerry Harris, former star of the Netflix docuseries &#8220;Cheer,&#8221; was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for soliciting sex from minors and pressuring young boys to send him nude photos and videos. https:\/\/t.co\/gxSy1cMIt8pic.twitter.com\/ZKttHBHFa3&#8212; USA TODAY (@USATODAY) July 6, 2022Harris has been held without bail since he was arrested in September 2020 on child pornography charges, the Chicago Tribune reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former &#8220;Cheer&#8221; star Jerry Harris on Wednesday was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for sex crimes. Harris, 22, of Naperville, Illinois, who starred in the Netflix docuseries, was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-72829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}