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Cheer star Jerry Harris pays $45K to victim's funds amid 12-year prison sentence for his sex crimes involving minors
Jerry Harris fulfilled one of his sentencing guidelines behind bars as he serves 12 years in federal prison after being charged of sexual crimes with minors.
Judge Manish S Shah told the social media star and cheerleading champion 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.' Notable figures listed as authors of character letters used by his defense included other stars of Cheer such as Navarro college head coach Monica Aldama, teammate Morgan Simianer, and the parents of Harris' fellow cheerleader, Gabi Butler. Harris, who quickly rose to fame in season one of the cheerleading-related Netflix hit, had entered guilty pleas to two charges - receiving child porn using interstate commerce, and traveling over state lines with intent to illicit sexual conduct with a minor.
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