CNN confirmed it has fired John Griffin, a long-time staffer producer who was indicted last week under the charges he tried to lure minors for sex. “The charges against Mr. Griffin are deeply disturbing. We learned of his arrest Friday afternoon and terminated his employment today,” a CNN spokesperson told Fox News and the Hearst Connecticut Media Group. CNN had not returned a request for comment on Tuesday. Griffin, 44, was charged Dec. 10 with three counts of using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity. The FBI announced the charges against Griffin, who had worked on CNN’s “New Day,” in a Twitter post on Friday afternoon. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Vermont said in the Department of Justice news release that Griffin “sought to persuade parents to allow him to train their daughters to be sexually submissive.” According to charging documents, Griffin acquired a …