Harris pleaded guilty to two of seven federal charges related to requesting child sexual abuse imagery and illegal sexual conduct with a minor.
, days after twin 14-year-old boys accused him of sending sexually explicit messages to them, requesting nude photos, and soliciting sex from them.
In a remote hearing on Thursday, Harris pleaded guilty to two of the seven federal charges related to asking for child sexual abuse imagery and illegal sexual conduct with a minor brought against him in Chicago. Harris told Judgethat he had reached a plea agreement with prosecutors, pleading guilty to charges that he persuaded a 17-year-old to send him sexually explicit imagery for payment and that he traveled to Florida “for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct” with a 15-year-old.
His lawyers also shared that Harris himself had been “exploited, manipulated, and sexually abused as a child within the Cheer Community in a way that perversely made him believe that this sexual conduct was somehow normal when it was not.”, “There being no safe harbor to discuss his exploitation, Jerry instead masked his trauma and put on the bright face and infectious smile that the world came to know. As we now know, Jerry became an offender himself as an older teenager.
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