The boy claims Harris also once asked him for oral sex in bathroom when they both attended a cheer competition in February 2019. Harris, who was 19 at the time, is also accused of sending the boy explicit images of himself and footage of him masturbating. The other boy, identified as Minor 1, said he sent more than a dozen sexually explicit photos and videos to Harris, at his request, on Snapchat between December 2018 and March 2020. One of the boys, identified as Minor 2, told authorities that he always refused to send Harris any explicit images. In the criminal complaint, Harris is accused of contacting both boys on social media as early as 2018 and soliciting explicit images from both of them. The FBI started investigating after the allegations were reported to authorities by Varsity, which is the global authority of competitive cheerleading.Īgents interviewed the two boys in late August. The mother of the twins found text messages and the explicit images and videos on her sons' phones in February, according to the complaint. The boys, Charlie and Sam, are not identified in the criminal complaint but they gave an interview to USA Today this week speaking about the allegations after filing the lawsuit. The allegations stem from complaints made by 14-year-old twin boys in Texas who are also competitive cheerleaders. The boys, Charlie and Sam, are not identified in the criminal complaint but they gave an interview to USA Today this week speaking about the allegations The 28-page criminal complaint related to his arrest, which came just days after the FBI raided his home in Naperville, Illinois, contains a number of screenshots of Harris' exchanges with both twins. Harris also allegedly admitted to soliciting explicit photos from dozens of other underage boys and engaging in a sex act with a 15-year-old at a cheer comp. Prosecutors say Harris admitted in an interview with FBI agents this week that he had asked the boy, who was then 13, to send him photographs and videos of his penis and buttocks on Snapchat.
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The production of child pornography charge is related to allegations of inappropriate conduct with the twin he tried to solicit oral sex from. He faced federal court in Chicago later on Thursday and will be held until a detention hearing on Monday. The 21-year-old celebrity cheerleader was arrested on child pornography charges on Thursday just days after 14-year-old cheerleading twin brothers in Texas filed a lawsuit alleging he solicited sexually explicit photos from them for a year and asked one of them for oral sex. Jerry Harris, the star of Netflix's Cheer, urged a 13-year-old boy to video himself performing a cheer maneuver naked and later cornered him in the bathroom at a cheer competition asking for oral sex, court documents claim. The FBI started investigating after the allegations were reported to authorities by Varsity, which is the global authority of competitive cheerleading.They filed a separate lawsuit against Harris earlier this week in which they accused him of harassing them at cheer competitions and online.The allegations leading to Harris' arrest stem from complaints made by the brothers who are also competitive cheerleaders.The criminal complaint related to his arrest contains a number of screenshots of Harris' exchanges with 14-year-old twin brothers from Texas.
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