Jared Evan
Last month, TIME magazine highlighted how the Biden presidential campaign recruited Hollywood figures to help spur voter turnout for the former VP’s White House bid.
Biden’s digital team knows the former VP’s online following doesn’t begin to compete with Trump’s. So its strategy has revolved partly around leveraging the popularity of others. Biden’s team has organized Instagram Live sessions with influencers including TV personality Keke Palmer and Jerry Harris from the Netflix series Cheer. (The idea of working with Harris earned the support of Biden’s college-age granddaughter Finnegan, who has the candidate’s ear on digital matters.)
Jerry Harris was just arrested for producing child pornography and soliciting a 13 year old boy for sex according to the Chicago Sun Times .
The Netflix star has been arrested on production of child pornography charges, per the U.S. Attorney’s office in Chicago, according to a report by the Chicago Sun-Times. A criminal complaint filed on Thursday alleges that Harris had asked for pornographic images and videos from two 14-year-old boys, adding that the boys’ parents found the photos and videos on one of the child’s phones.
From the Chicago Sun Times
Harris, 21, of Naperville, allegedly asked for pornographic images and videos from two 14-year-old boys, according to the complaint filed Thursday, with one of the boys telling investigators that Harris was “relentless” in his requests. The boys’ parent found the photos and videos on one of the teen’s phones, the complaint stated.
According to the complaint, the alleged pedophile prayed on his victim between December 2008 Thru March of 2020
Also from the Document which is published from the Chicago Sun Times
The legal affidavit stated the underage teen reported “one in-person encounter” between Harris and the minor, in which the Netflix star “solicited oral sex from Minor 1 in a bathroom at a cheer-leading event both Harris and Minor 1 attended.”
Minor 1 also reported a second attempt by HARRIS to meet Minor 1 for an in-person sexual encounter when Minor 1 was at a cheer competition that HARRIS also attended,” the complaint read.
The affidavit also states that Harris admitted to asking one of the underage teens to take photos and videos of his “penis and buttocks and to send the photos and videos to Harris through Snapchat, knowing that [the minor] was 13 years old.”
Harris is the star of the Netflix series “Cheer” a documentary about cheer leading. While his arrest is being reported on, not a single article is mentioning the pervert’s connections to the Biden campaign. One must wonder if a quality news reporter would actually ask Joe Biden about one of his Hollywood surrogates being an alleged pedophile?
One can be sure that if a Trump surrogate was accused of pedophilia and producing child porn, the headlines would highlight the connection.
USA Today reported the criminal investigation is based on allegations reported separately to police by Varsity Brands, a private company that dominates the cheer-leading industry and handles everything from uniform sales to major competitions. In Aug. 1 letters to police in Florida and Texas, Varsity’s chief legal officer, Burton Brillhart, said the company learned of “inappropriate sexual conduct” allegations against Harris and reported the information to authorities as required by law.