BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A former CNN tv manufacturer pleaded to blame Monday in federal court docket to the use of interstate trade to trap and coerce a 9-year-old woman to interact in sexual process at his Vermont ski space.
As a part of the plea deal, the federal government will drop the 2 last counts of enticement of a minor towards John Griffin, 45, of Stamford, Connecticut.
Consistent with the plea deal, Griffin met a girl on a website online all through the summer season of 2020 and persuaded the girl to carry her 9-year-old daughter to his Ludlow, Vermont, ski house for unlawful sexual process.
Griffin paid the girl and lady to fly from Nevada to Boston, picked them up and drove them to his Vermont house the place the lady stated Griffin sexually assaulted her, court docket information say.
Griffin used to be arrested on Dec. 10, 2021, an afternoon after he used to be indicted through a grand jury. He at the beginning pleaded now not to blame to 3 counts.
Griffin labored for CNN for approximately 8 years however used to be fired after he used to be arrested, the community stated ultimate yr.
He faces a conceivable sentence of a minimum of 10 years and as much as existence in jail when he’s sentenced on March 20, 2023. He will have to pay complete restitution to the sufferers, an quantity which will likely be decided through the court docket. He additionally faces a high quality of as much as $250,000 and different charges and has agreed to forfeit a Tesla automobile, and digital pieces and to donate part of the proceeds from the sale of his Vermont house and the approaching sale of a Mercedes automobile into the court docket registry.
He additionally faces a time period of 5 years to existence on supervised liberate, with stipulations, together with that he take part in a intercourse perpetrator analysis and remedy and sign up as a intercourse perpetrator. He additionally can not have touch with other people beneath the age of 18, aside from within the presence of a accountable grownup who has been licensed through a probation officer, and is illegitimate from being in spaces the place youngsters congregate, akin to faculties, playgrounds and theme parks, until licensed through the probation workplace previously.