CNN Producer Indicted For Alleged Abuse Of Underage Girls

John Girffin

\A CNN employee has been charged on Friday accused of luring a mother and her young daughter to come his home to 'train' her to be sexually submissive. 

The Daily Mail reports John Griffin, who worked on the CNN show New Day, was charged with three counts that he used a 'facility of interstate commerce to abuse underage girls.' 

A Vermont grand jury indicted 44-year-old Griffin, from Stamford, Connecticut of attempting to entice the girls to engage in sexual activity.  

'According to the indictment, between April and July of 2020, Griffin utilized the messaging applications Kik and Google Hangouts to communicate with people purporting to be parents of minor daughters, conveying to them, among other ideas, that a 'woman is a woman regardless of her age,' and that women should be sexually subservient and inferior to men,' according to a statement from the Department of Justice on the case.

In June 2020, Griffin told a mom of two girls, aged 9 and 13 that she needed to have her daughters 'trained properly.'

Griffin is alleged to have sent her $3,000 in order to pay for plane tickets so that she could travel with her daughters from Nevada to Boston, according to the indictment. 

After the trio flew to Boston, Griffin collected them at the airport before driving them to his home in Ludlow, Vermont.  Prosecutors say the girl was forced to engage in illegal sexual contact.

Griffin faces 10 years to life in prison if convicted on each federal count. 

'We take the charges against Mr. Griffin incredibly seriously,' a CNN spokesperson said on Friday. 'We only learned of his arrest this afternoon and have suspended him pending investigation.'

Griffin began working with CNN in 2013.