Longtime CNN producer John Griffin slapped with $15M civil suit amid federal child trafficking case

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John Griffin, the longtime CNN producer fired last month over child trafficking allegations, has been named in a Connecticut civil lawsuit alleging “injurious acts” of “horrific sexual abuse” and exploitation.

“For several years forward of 2020, the defendant solicited young ladies, alongside with the minor plaintiff, for the reason for knowingly persuading, inducing, enticing and coercing them to make your mind up in sexual activity, sexual exploitation, and/or sexual trafficking,” the lawsuit, filed last week in Bridgeport, alleges.

Criminally, Griffin faces one trafficking payment alongside with two counts of attempted trafficking in federal courtroom in Vermont after allegedly soliciting other folks with underage young other folks.

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Between April and July 2020, Griffin allegedly invited three ladies and their underage daughters over “for the functions of sexual practicing,” according to the federal indictment. Most efficient the Nevada lady took him up on his offer, according to prosecutors.

The suit, filed on behalf of a 9-year-broken-down “Jane Doe” and custodial “subsequent most interesting most interesting friend” Janet Doe is in quest of as a lot as $15 million in damages and costs.

Some allegations seemingly mirror those in a 2020 Nevada criminal grievance against the victim’s adoptive mother and the federal indictment of Griffin launched last month.

Griffin allegedly paid a Nevada lady more than $3,000 to hurry to Boston and then preserve at his multimillion-dollar Vermont vacation home for a week of sex crimes that attractive her young adopted daughter.

The evidence against Griffin allegedly involves drone video he took showing a “fully bare 9-year-broken-down lady” standing subsequent to him in his underclothes, according to courtroom filings.

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“When confronted with this video all the blueprint thru an interview by FBI brokers, Griffin’s first response turned into once merely to counsel he turned into once now not searching at the bare lady, despite that she turned into once standing so shut to him to be touching,” the prosecutor’s pretrial detention memo reads.

Fox News is now not the exhaust of the woman’s title to preserve far from exposing the child victim’s id.

Quickly after the woman’s arrest in August 2020, federal investigators seized electronics and storage devices belonging to Griffin. 

But no costs had been launched till mid-December 2021 – prompting criticism from some frail investigators who mentioned they seen no legit reason for the prolong.

CNN fired the frail Chris Cuomo producer after his arrest. 

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“Sooner than his arrest and indictment, we had no info about the case,” a CNN spokesperson suggested Fox News Digital. The media outlet furthermore mentioned no CNN-owned devices issued to Griffin went missing or had been reported misplaced in September 2020, when investigators mentioned they seized just a few of his electronics.

Last year, Griffin moved out of the $4 million Connecticut home he shared with his major other attributable to marital troubles, sources enjoy suggested Fox News Digital. He turned into once dwelling on my own in Stamford when the FBI arrested him last month.

Griffin’s attorney, David Kirby, failed to without prolong acknowledge to a inquire for comment.

If convicted, the frail TV producer would possibly perhaps perhaps face life in prison.

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He pleaded now not responsible and is being held with out bail in Vermont.

Fox News’ Rebecca Rosenberg contributed to this report.