Former CNN producer John Griffin was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl, revealed prosecutors. Griffin earlier pleaded guilty to child sex charges last December as a part of a plea deal which saw two other counts of child sex charges initially filed against him dropped.&nbsp;

The 45-year-old Connecticut man reportedly met a woman online and persuaded her to bring her 9-year-old daughter to his house, where he engaged with the minor girl in illicit sexual activity. According to New York Post, the mother, Heather Carriker, was also arrested and slapped with child sex charges.

A victim during Tuesday’s hearing told the judge that she has difficulties trusting people while telling Griffin that “You make me sad and angry.”

<h2>John Griffin: A proven paedophile</h2>

As per prosecutors, Griffin would communicate with parents having minor girls over Google Hangouts and lure them into making their girls engage in sexual activity with himself. During one of those conversations, Griffin would once say that a “woman is a woman regardless of her age” and that women should be sexually subservient and inferior to men.

In June 2020, Griffin instructed the mother of a 9-year-old and a 13-year-old girl that her responsibility was to ensure her older daughter was "properly trained." He then transferred over $3,000 to the woman for plane tickets, enabling the mother and her 9-year-old daughter to travel from Nevada to Boston.

According to prosecutors, the mother and child flew to Boston in July 2020, where Griffin picked them up in his Tesla and drove them to his residence in Ludlow. At his house, the daughter was coerced into engaging in unlawful sexual activity.

<h2>Other charges of child sex against Griffin</h2>

In exchange for Griffin's guilty plea filed last December, prosecutors dismissed two charges related to allegations that he also attempted to entice two other children into sexual activities. One of these allegations involved a mother and her 14-year-old daughter, to whom Griffin offered a "virtual training session."

<a href="https://www.wionews.com/business-economy/cnn-fires-tv-producer-chris-licht-after-13-month-long-crisis-ridden-tenure-601852">Also read:&nbsp;Chris Licht exits CNN after 13-month-long crisis-ridden tenure</a>

Griffin was employed at CNN for approximately eight years before being terminated following his arrest in December 2021. The mother of the victim, Heather Carriker from Henderson, Nevada, was arrested and charged in August 2020, although the current status of her case remains unknown.

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Former CNN producer John Griffin was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl, revealed prosecutors. Griffin earlier pleaded guilty to child sex charges last December as a part of a plea deal which saw two other counts of child sex charges initially filed against him dropped.

Former CNN producer John Griffin was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl, revealed prosecutors. Griffin earlier pleaded guilty to child sex charges last December as a part of a plea deal which saw two other counts of child sex charges initially filed against him dropped. The 45-year-old Connecticut man reportedly met a woman online and persuaded her to bring her 9-year-old daughter to his house, where he engaged with the minor girl in illicit sexual activity. According to New York Post, the mother, Heather Carriker, was also arrested and slapped with child sex charges. A victim during Tuesday’s hearing told the judge that she has difficulties trusting people while telling Griffin that “You make me sad and angry.” John Griffin: A proven paedophile As per prosecutors, Griffin would communicate with parents having minor girls over Google Hangouts and lure them into making their girls engage in sexual activity with himself. During one of those conversations, Griffin would once say that a “woman is a woman regardless of her age” and that women should be sexually subservient and inferior to men. In June 2020, Griffin instructed the mother of a 9-year-old and a 13-year-old girl that her responsibility was to ensure her older daughter was "properly trained." He then transferred over $3,000 to the woman for plane tickets, enabling the mother and her 9-year-old daughter to travel from Nevada to Boston. According to prosecutors, the mother and child flew to Boston in July 2020, where Griffin picked them up in his Tesla and drove them to his residence in Ludlow. At his house, the daughter was coerced into engaging in unlawful sexual activity. Other charges of child sex against Griffin In exchange for Griffin's guilty plea filed last December, prosecutors dismissed two charges related to allegations that he also attempted to entice two other children into sexual activities. One of these allegations involved a mother and her 14-year-old daughter, to whom Griffin offered a "virtual training session." Also read: Chris Licht exits CNN after 13-month-long crisis-ridden tenure Griffin was employed at CNN for approximately eight years before being terminated following his arrest in December 2021. The mother of the victim, Heather Carriker from Henderson, Nevada, was arrested and charged in August 2020, although the current status of her case remains unknown. WATCH WION LIVE HERE ×

Former CNN producer John Griffin sentenced to 19 years in jail for sexually assaulting 9-year-old girl

US comedian Kathy Griffin may have hoped to make art in holding up a prop depicting Donald Trump&#39;s bloodied, severed head. But the stunt cost her a job with CNN and achieved the unthinkable -- uniting conservatives and liberals in outrage.

The president castigated the comedian on Wednesday, saying she &quot;should be ashamed of herself&quot; for the grisly-looking photograph.&nbsp;

&quot;My children, especially my 11 year old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!&quot; he tweeted.

It didn&#39;t matter that the outspoken Trump critic and award-winning performer had already apologized and asked celebrity photographer Tyler Shields to remove the picture from the internet. It was not enough to save her job.

&quot;CNN has terminated our agreement with Kathy Griffin to appear on our New Year&#39;s Eve program,&quot; the network&#39;s communications division announced.

CNN had earlier called the picture &quot;disgusting and offensive, &quot;and said it was &quot;evaluating&quot; its annual New Year&#39;s Eve coverage, which Griffin co-hosted for a decade with Anderson Cooper. The CNN anchor slammed the image as &quot;completely inappropriate.&quot;

First Lady Melania Trump also criticized Griffin, who has twice won Emmys for her reality show &quot;My Life on the D List.&quot;&nbsp;

&quot;As a mother, a wife, and a human being, that photo is very disturbing,&quot; she said in a rare statement.

&quot;When you consider some of the atrocities happening in the world today, a photo opportunity like this is simply wrong and makes you wonder about the mental health of the person who did it,&quot; she added.

The Secret Service also said it would look into the incident, tweeting that threats against protectees &quot;receive the highest priority of all of our investigations.&quot;

In a 31-second video posted to social media late Tuesday, Griffin said: &quot;I beg for your forgiveness. I went too far. I made a mistake and I was wrong.&quot;

But the 56-year-old was initially more defiant.

&quot;There was blood coming out of his eyes, blood coming out of his... wherever,&quot; she captioned the photograph Tuesday in reference to a remark Trump made on the campaign trail about US journalist Megyn Kelly, who moderated a presidential debate.

&#39;Repugnant and vile&#39;&nbsp;

&quot;I do not condone any violence... I&#39;m merely mocking the mocker in chief,&quot; Griffin tweeted later. Both messages have since been deleted and the photograph has been removed from her social media account.

Trump&#39;s eldest son Donald Jr, who runs the family business in New York, and Mitt Romney, the defeated 2012 Republican presidential nominee, were among those conservatives who slammed the photograph.

&quot;Our politics have become too base, too low &amp; too vulgar, but Kathy Griffin&#39;s post descends into an even more repugnant &amp; vile territory,&quot; Romney tweeted.

Even Trump critics vented their disapproval.&nbsp;

&quot;It is never funny to joke about killing a president,&quot; tweeted Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former president Bill and Trump&#39;s election rival Hillary.

&quot;I think she was thinking she was making some artistic statement, but that image has no place in our political dialogue,&quot; Al Franken, a Democratic senator from Minnesota and a former comedian on long-running television show Saturday Night Live, told MSNBC.

Apart from CNN, Squatty Potty, a Utah-based bathroom products company, suspended an advertising campaign featuring Griffin, calling the picture &quot;deeply inappropriate.&quot;

Shields has not commented publicly since the controversy broke. He is listed on his website as an artist and &quot;Hollywood&#39;s favorite photographer&quot; who has evolved from being the &quot;bad boy of photography.&quot;

US newspapers were scathing on the editorial pages.

&quot;In a strange way Griffin&#39;s shameful stunt might&nbsp;have given Americans their greatest moment of unity since Trump&#39;s unexpected election,&quot; wrote USA Today.

&quot;Those who hate Trump with all their gut, and recoil at the crass and nasty direction he&#39;s taken our politics, should be the first to condemn imagery that normalizes violence against him,&quot; said the New York Daily News.

(AFP)

Kathy Griffin came under a lot of criticism for holding up a prop depicting Donald Trump's bloodied, severed head

US comedian Kathy Griffin may have hoped to make art in holding up a prop depicting Donald Trump's bloodied, severed head. But the stunt cost her a job with CNN and achieved the unthinkable -- uniting conservatives and liberals in outrage. The president castigated the comedian on Wednesday, saying she "should be ashamed of herself" for the grisly-looking photograph. "My children, especially my 11 year old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!" he tweeted. It didn't matter that the outspoken Trump critic and award-winning performer had already apologized and asked celebrity photographer Tyler Shields to remove the picture from the internet. It was not enough to save her job. "CNN has terminated our agreement with Kathy Griffin to appear on our New Year's Eve program," the network's communications division announced. CNN had earlier called the picture "disgusting and offensive, "and said it was "evaluating" its annual New Year's Eve coverage, which Griffin co-hosted for a decade with Anderson Cooper. The CNN anchor slammed the image as "completely inappropriate." First Lady Melania Trump also criticized Griffin, who has twice won Emmys for her reality show "My Life on the D List." "As a mother, a wife, and a human being, that photo is very disturbing," she said in a rare statement. "When you consider some of the atrocities happening in the world today, a photo opportunity like this is simply wrong and makes you wonder about the mental health of the person who did it," she added. The Secret Service also said it would look into the incident, tweeting that threats against protectees "receive the highest priority of all of our investigations." In a 31-second video posted to social media late Tuesday, Griffin said: "I beg for your forgiveness. I went too far. I made a mistake and I was wrong." But the 56-year-old was initially more defiant. "There was blood coming out of his eyes, blood coming out of his... wherever," she captioned the photograph Tuesday in reference to a remark Trump made on the campaign trail about US journalist Megyn Kelly, who moderated a presidential debate. 'Repugnant and vile' "I do not condone any violence... I'm merely mocking the mocker in chief," Griffin tweeted later. Both messages have since been deleted and the photograph has been removed from her social media account. Trump's eldest son Donald Jr, who runs the family business in New York, and Mitt Romney, the defeated 2012 Republican presidential nominee, were among those conservatives who slammed the photograph. "Our politics have become too base, too low & too vulgar, but Kathy Griffin's post descends into an even more repugnant & vile territory," Romney tweeted. Even Trump critics vented their disapproval. "It is never funny to joke about killing a president," tweeted Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former president Bill and Trump's election rival Hillary. "I think she was thinking she was making some artistic statement, but that image has no place in our political dialogue," Al Franken, a Democratic senator from Minnesota and a former comedian on long-running television show Saturday Night Live, told MSNBC. Apart from CNN, Squatty Potty, a Utah-based bathroom products company, suspended an advertising campaign featuring Griffin, calling the picture "deeply inappropriate." Shields has not commented publicly since the controversy broke. He is listed on his website as an artist and "Hollywood's favorite photographer" who has evolved from being the "bad boy of photography." US newspapers were scathing on the editorial pages. "In a strange way Griffin's shameful stunt might have given Americans their greatest moment of unity since Trump's unexpected election," wrote USA Today. "Those who hate Trump with all their gut, and recoil at the crass and nasty direction he's taken our politics, should be the first to condemn imagery that normalizes violence against him," said the New York Daily News. (AFP)

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Former CNN producer John Griffin sentenced to 19 years in jail for sexually assaulting 9-year-old girl

US comedian sacked by CNN over grisly Trump stunt