Griffin, 44, of Stamford, Connecticut, was arrested on Friday and faces three counts.
A CNN employee has been charged with three counts of using a facility of interstate commerce to sexually abuse underage girls. John Griffin,44, of Stamford, Connecticut, was arrested on Friday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI), according to a statement by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont. The indictment says that between April and July 2020, he used Google Hangouts and Kik to communicate with people purporting to be the parents of underage girls. He allegedly used the applications to say that women should be “sexually subservient and inferior to men” and that a “woman is a woman regardless of her age.” “On these communication platforms, Griffin sought to persuade parents to allow him to train their daughters to be sexually submissive,” the indictment said. Griffin works as a senior producer at CNN, where he has worked since 2013, according to his LinkedIn profile.
