Former CNN producer John Griffin has been sentenced to 19 years in prison on Tuesday for committing child sex crimes in Vermont.
John Griffin, 45, confessed to coercing a woman online into bringing her nine-year-old daughter to Ludlow, Vermont for illicit sexual acts.
The US Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont charged Griffin with three counts of using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity in 2021, however, Griffin entered into a plea agreement in December and the government dropped two additional charges of enticing a minor after he confessed his crimes.
A criminal complaint filed in the state of Nevada against a mother accused of pimping her 9-year-old daughter out to CNN’s John Griffin revealed that authorities arrested the mother in August 2020 and seized Griffin’s devices the following month.
This means that law enforcement allegedly knew about Griffin’s abuse for more than a year before his arrest.
Court records reveal that Griffin paid the mother to fly with the girl from Nevada to Boston, where the girl said Griffin assaulted her.
According to court documents, federal investigators seized computer storage media, devices, phones, cameras, MicroSD cards, images, and video from Griffin on Sept. 2, 2020.The indictment alleged that Griffin lured a mother and her underage daughter to his home for the purposes of sexual abuse in July 2020. From April to July 2020, Griffin used online messaging systems such as Kik and Google Hangouts to reach out to parents with underage daughters.
Griffin is also alleged to have attempted to “entice two other children over the internet to engage in sexual activity,” and tried to engage a mother and her 14-year-old daughter in a “virtual training session” where he would instruct them to take off their clothes and touch each other per his wishes.
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