CNN producer, former Fredo staffer, arrested for allegedly inducing a child for sex

CNN suspended a staffer, John Griffin [as far as we know, no relation to Kathy Griffin] after a federal indictment alleged that he coerced parents to allow their minor daughters to have sex in his home.

According to his profile on LinkedIn, Griffin is a senior producer for CNN's morning program "New Day." He was arrested Friday by the FBI after he was charged by a grand jury in Vermont "with three counts of using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity."

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Vermont wrote in a statement: 

"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." 

"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." 

 The U.S. Attorney's Office in Vermont said the 44-year-old scumbag  "attempted to entice two other children over the internet to engage in sexual activity" and in April 2020, he "proposed to engage in a ‘virtual training session’ over a video chat that would include him instructing the mother and her 14-year-old daughter to remove their clothing and touch each other at his direction."

And Griffin also "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" in June 2020.

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Griffin's verified Twitter account identifies himself as "Writer, Father, Tech Head." He left out pedophile scumbag.  

He has worked for CNN since 2013 and as a senior producer for "New Day." 

"We take the charges against Mr. Griffin incredibly seriously," a CNN spokesperson told Fox News, just like they take what Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon have done seriously, except that Lemon still works for the Compromised News Network. "We only learned of his arrest this afternoon and have suspended him pending investigation."

I'd like to know who does the job interviewing for CNN. Griffin's indictment comes less than a week after Fredo was fired and Lemon was discovered to have tipped off Jussie Smollett, the convicted race hoaxer. Also, Lemon has a case pending in which he allegedly put his hands down the pants of a man who is now taking him to court. 

What are we going to discover next--Jeff Zucker engages in puppycide?

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