Connecticut man John Griffin was arrested Friday and charged with three counts of using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity, the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont said in a news release.
Griffin, 44, has been a producer with CNN for about eight years.
"The
charges against Mr. Griffin are deeply disturbing," a spokesperson for
the network said in a statement Saturday. "We only learned of his arrest
yesterday afternoon and have suspended him pending investigation."
The
charges stem from conversations between Griffin and the purported
parents of minor daughters, in which he allegedly tried to persuade them
to "allow him to train their daughters to be sexually submissive," as
well as an incident in which prosecutors allege unlawful sexual activity
occurred with a 9-year-old girl, the news release said.
CNN has not been able to identify an attorney for Griffin.
According
to an indictment filed on Thursday, Griffin allegedly paid for and kept
an online profile on a "BDSM dating, Fetish, and Kink Site" for several
years leading up to July 2020, on which he allegedly wrote he was
looking for women who were "sexually 'submissive' and 'open-minded.'"
also:
Between April and June 2020, prosecutors allege Griffin talked online with the purported father of a 14-year-old girl and separately, the mother of a 16-year-old girl, proposing they begin "sexual training," the indictment said.
In June and July, Griffin also allegedly talked online and on the phone with someone who claimed to be the mother of two girls, 9 and 13, according to the indictment.
Griffin allegedly paid more than $3,000 to the woman to fly her and the 9-year-old girl to Boston in July, where prosecutors say he picked them up from the airport and brought them to the ski house "where the child was directed to engage in and did engage in illegal sexual activity," the indictment said.
In June and July, Griffin also allegedly talked online and on the phone with someone who claimed to be the mother of two girls, 9 and 13, according to the indictment.
Griffin allegedly paid more than $3,000 to the woman to fly her and the 9-year-old girl to Boston in July, where prosecutors say he picked them up from the airport and brought them to the ski house "where the child was directed to engage in and did engage in illegal sexual activity," the indictment said.
* Must We Burn Sade? The question of mid-20th century secular, modernist, enlightenment intellectual Simone de Beauvoir is a question only if you figure there are a number of children and vulnerable people who are expendible for the pleasures of rich, powerful men. That a feminist would propose that their lives were a good bargain so that such stuff as decadent intellectuals can instruct and titillate and encourage immoral degenerates is an indictment of secularism, modernism and enlightenment intellectualism, any real feminism would exist to stop that happening, not enabling it. Shut down the myriad of websites that encourage it. There are probably tens of thousands of them promoting the sadistic, sexual use of children, women, vulnerable men. I don't feel much like doing that research right now but anyone who pretends they are not there and don't feed the actual, real life activity of these guys is as big a liar as De Beauvoir and her boyfriend were.
It makes you wonder how many other journalists are involved in this. No doubt they would all piously answer that we MUST allow them to publish, all of them, including those websites because THE FIRST AMENDMENT!
Lock the parents in jail and throw away the key, while you're at it.
Update: Straight, cis white guy says what?
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