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Veteran CNN producer John Griffin has been criminally charged with enticing minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity.
Griffin conveyed thoughts including one that a “woman is a woman regardless of her age,” and that women should be sexually subservient and inferior to men, according to the DOJ.
On one occasion cited in the indictment in June of 2020, Griffin allegedly advised the mother of 9-year-old and 13-year-old girls to make sure the older child was “trained properly.”
The mother was given $3,000 for plane tickets so she and the 9-year-old could leave Nevada and travel to Boston’s Logan airport, said the DOJ.
Eventually, in July of 2020 the mother and daughter allegedly flew out to Boston where Griffin picked both up in his Tesla. The two were given a ride to his Ludlow, Massachusetts, house where he engaged the daughter in unlawful sexual activity, according to the indictment.
Griffin also stands accused of attempting to entice two other children online to engage in sexual activity.
The indictment states that one of the instances took place in April of 2020, when he tried to push a mother and daughter to engage in a “virtual training session” via video. It allegedly involved him trying to guide the mother and her 14-year-old daughter to strip and touch one another.
In the second incident, Griffin allegedly suggested to a woman appearing to be the mother of a 16-year-old girl that the two take a “little mother-daughter trip” to his Ludlow home for the sole purpose of sexual training.
According to theNew York Post, each count carries a minimum of 10 years in prison.
The news outlet added that the federal government also has plans to confiscate Griffin’s Ludlow home, Mercedes-Benz, and Tesla, which were allegedly used in the crimes.
“The charges against Mr. Griffin are deeply disturbing. We only learned of his arrest yesterday afternoon and have suspended him pending investigation,” CNN said in a statement to PEOPLE on Saturday.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Griffin claims to have worked “shoulder-to-shoulder” with Chris Cuomo since April 2013 “seeing him through each show and producing live breaking news across the country and around the world” onNew Day. Prior to CNN, Griffin also worked for ABC, CBS, and Fox News.
source: people.com
