A CNN senior producer who once bragged about working “shoulder-to-shoulder” with former anchor Chris Cuomo has been charged with seeking to coax underage girls to his home by offering to train them to be “sexually submissive.” John Griffin, 44, appeared Friday in federal court via Zoom in New Haven, Connecticut, after being indicted by a grand jury on three counts of “using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Vermont. He was accused of using messaging apps to communicate with the alleged parents of underage girls, “conveying to them, among other ideas, that a ‘woman is a woman regardless of her age,’ and that women should be sexually subservient and inferior to men,” said the office in a press release. “On these communication platforms, Griffin sought to persuade parents to allow him to train their daughters to be sexually submissive,” said the release. In a statement, CNN said that it had suspended Mr. Griffin, who worked most recently as a producer for senior political analyst John Avlon. Before that, Mr. Griffin said on LinkedIn that he was senior producer for CNN’s “New Day,” working “shoulder-to-shoulder with lead anchor Chris Cuomo, seeing him through each show and producing live breaking news across the country and around the world.” Mr. Cuomo left “New Day” in May 2018 to host “Cuomo Prime Time.” He was fired Dec. 4 for violating the network’s standards by helping his brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, fight allegations of sexual misconduct. “The charges against Mr. Griffin are deeply disturbing,” a CNN spokesperson said in a Saturday email to The Washington Times. “We only learned of his arrest yesterday afternoon and have suspended him pending investigation.” https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/dec/11/cnn-producer-charged-seeking-lure-minor-girls-sexu/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork