It looks like CNN is going to have quite a handful to deal with following this scandal…
A former CNN producer was just sentenced to almost 20 years in prison for committing child sex crimes against a 9-year-old girl.
45-year-old John Griffin pleaded guilty to using the internet in order to entice the young girl to engage in sex acts.
The former producer was promptly fired from CNN after his arrest on December 10, 2021.
The Justice Department issued this statement regarding Griffin’s arrest:
“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.”
The statement continued:
“On these communication platforms, Griffin sought to persuade parents to allow him to train their daughters to be sexually submissive,” the Justice Department continued. “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.”
To make matters worse, Griffin also attempted to lure two other children to engage in sexual activity through the use of the internet.
The pedophile had worked at the news network for 8 years.
CNN was quick to respond to Griffin’s arrest, having a spokesperson state, “we only learned of his arrest this afternoon and have suspended him pending investigation.”
Following his 19 years in jail, Griffin with have another 15 years worth of supervised release., under which, “he also cannot have contact with people under the age of 18, except in the presence of an adult who has been approved by a probation officer, and is prohibited from being in areas where children congregate, such as schools, playgrounds and theme parks, unless approved by the probation office beforehand,” according to the Washington Times.
