'Now that's disgusting': Internet horrified after former CNN producer John Griffin pleads guilty to child rape
STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT: After luring a 9-year-old girl to his Vermont ski chalet for sex, a former CNN producer admitted guilty to child rape on Monday, December 12. In exchange for the dismissal of the two additional counts of enticing a juvenile that he had been charged with earlier this year, John Griffin, 45, entered a guilty plea in federal court to utilize interstate commerce to attract a minor. Griffin, of Stamford, Connecticut, allegedly met a woman online and persuaded her to bring her 9-year-old daughter to his $2.5 million Vermont cabin, where he engaged in sexual activity with the child.
In July 2020, Griffin paid the mother $3,000 to fly from Nevada to Boston, where he picked them up in a Tesla and drove them to his Ludlow, Vermont home, where he instructed the young girl to engage in unlawful sexual activity with him. Griffin then paid the mother another $3,000 to fly from Nevada to Boston. Charges of child maltreatment and child sexual assault were brought against the mother, Heather Carriker, as well and she was also detained.
