CNN Producer Linked to Chris Cuomo Indicted In Sex Abuse of Minor Girls

CNN is a torrential rainstorm. Joe Wulfsohn of Fox News reported CNN has suspended one of its producers following a federal indictment accusing him of coercing parents to allow their minor daughters to engage in sexual activity in his home.

John Griffin, senior producer at CNN’s morning show Day of the New, was arrested on Friday by the FBI after being 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.”

A spokesperson for CNN told Fox News that they take Mr. Griffin’s charges very seriously. He was arrested this afternoon. We have now suspended him for investigation. A statement was issued by the U.S. attorney’s office of Vermont. 

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.  Griffin attempted to get parents to let him train his daughters to be sexually submissive via these communication channels.

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.  Griffin took the child and mother to Boston on July 20, 2020. He then drove them to Griffin’s Ludlow home in his Tesla.  The daughter was told to perform, and indeed did, illegal sexual activity at the Ludlow house.  

This is not all. 

In April of 2020, Griffin 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.  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.  

It New York Post reported on Griffin’s “mainstream media” career:

On his LinkedIn profile, Griffin boasts of having worked “shoulder-to-shoulder with lead anchor Chris Cuomo, seeing him through each show and producing live breaking news across the country and around the world.”

They worked together during Cuomo’s five years as co-anchor of CNN’s Neue Day.

Griffin, who calls himself a “father” on his Twitter feed and appears to have three young children, worked at CNN for almost nine years. Before that, he was a producer at ABC News (Fox News), CBS and CBS.

Griffin could be innocent. CNN, however, isn’t well-known for giving the benefit of any doubt to anyone accused of sexual abuse… unless they’re Cuomo or Clinton.