BURLINGTON, Vt. — A former CNN tv producer who had pleaded responsible to luring a 9-year-old woman into unlawful sexual acts was sentenced Tuesday to greater than 19 years in jail and a further 15 years of supervised launch throughout a U.S. District Court listening to in Vermont.
John Griffin of Stamford, Connecticut, pleaded responsible in federal courtroom in December to utilizing interstate commerce to entice and coerce the woman to have interaction in sexual exercise at his Vermont ski home.
As a part of the 2022 plea deal, the federal government dropped two remaining counts of enticement of a minor in opposition to Griffin, then 45 yr previous.
Griffin had initially pleaded not responsible in 2021. He has been ordered to pay restitution to the victims.
According to the plea deal, Griffin met a girl on a web site through the summer season of 2020 and persuaded the lady to carry her daughter to his Ludlow, Vermont, ski dwelling for sexual exercise.
Griffin paid the lady and woman to fly from Nevada to Boston, picked them up and drove them to his Vermont dwelling the place the woman stated Griffin sexually assaulted her, courtroom data say.
Griffin was arrested on Dec. 10, 2021, a day after he was indicted by a grand jury. He labored for CNN for about eight years however was fired after he was arrested, in line with the community.
He additionally can not have contact with individuals underneath the age of 18, besides within the presence of an grownup who has been accredited by a probation officer, and is prohibited from being in areas the place kids congregate, comparable to colleges, playgrounds and theme parks, except accredited by the probation workplace beforehand.
Content Source: www.washingtontimes.com