A CNN producer faces multiple charges for allegedly trying to persuade minors to participate in inappropriate and unlawful sexual activity. The producer, 44-year-old John Griffin of Connecticut, was charged with three counts of using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity by a grand jury and was subsequently arrested by the FBI on Friday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont. At the house, the daughter was directed to engage in, and did engage in, unlawful sexual activity,” according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said that each charge holds a 10-year minimum sentence and that Griffin could face lifetime imprisonment as a maximum sentence. We only learned of his arrest yesterday afternoon and have suspended him pending investigation,” a CNN spokesperson said in a statement on Saturday.

Source: CNN December 12, 2021 06:37 UTC