CNN Staffer Charged with Trying to Entice Young Girls to Engage in Illegal Sexual Activity

John Griffin has been suspended

People enter the CNN Center in Atlanta, Ga., in a file photograph. Ric Feld/AP Photo

A CNN staff member based in Connecticut has been charged with attempting to entice minor girls to engage in sexual activity.

John Griffin, 44, of Stamford, was arrested Friday on three counts of using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity.