John Griffin: CNN producer who worked with Chris Cuomo arrested for grooming minors for sex
A CNN worker has been arrested and charged after he allegedly trained underage girls to be sexually submissive and shared ideas like “woman is a woman regardless of her age” with them. The accused, identified as John Griffin, is said to have worked closely with Chris Cumo; he had allegedly once invited a woman and her nine-year-old daughter to his Vermont ski home, where he asked the latter “to engage in, and did engage in, unlawful sexual activity.”
A statement from the Department of Justice on the case noted: “According to the indictment, from April to 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.”
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It continued, “On these communication platforms, Griffin sought to persuade parents to allow him to train their daughters to be sexually submissive. In June of 2020, Griffin advised a mother of 9- and 13-year-old daughters that the mother’s responsibility was to see that her older daughter was ‘trained properly.’ Griffin later transferred over $3,000 to the mother for plane tickets so the mother and her 9-year-old daughter could fly from Nevada to Boston’s Logan airport. The mother and child flew to Boston in July of 2020, where Griffin picked them up in his Tesla and drove them to his Ludlow house. At the house, the daughter was directed to engage in, and did engage in, unlawful sexual activity.”
Some other serious accusations against Griffin are he “attempted to entice two other children over the internet to engage in sexual activity.” Besides, last year in April, he proposed a devious plan where he would act as a trainer directing a “mother and her 14-year-old daughter to remove their clothing and touch each other”. “In June of 2020, Griffin proposed to a purported mother of a 16-year-old daughter that she take a ‘little mother-daughter trip’ to Griffin’s Ludlow ski house for sexual training involving the child,” the official document added.
The suspect has been pressed with three counts of using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity. If found guilty of all, he will go behind bars for a minimum sentence of 10 years and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The statement read, “The indictment includes a notice that states the federal government intends to seek the forfeiture of Griffin’s Ludlow house, his Tesla, a Mercedes, and other property that was used in the commission of the charged offenses. Acting United States Attorney Jonathan A. Ophardt commended the investigatory efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the vital assistance of both the Ludlow, Vermont Police Department and the Henderson, Nevada Police Department.”
A spokesperson for CNN has also reacted to Griffin’s arrest and said: “We take the charges against Mr. Griffin incredibly seriously. We only learned of his arrest this afternoon and have suspended him pending investigation.”