Jerry Griffitt

Griffitt arrived at the sting house with apple pie, whipped cream, KY lubricant, vaginal contraceptive jelly, tums, and a bottle of beer. Del Harvey spoke to Griffitt while posing as the teenage girl in a different room. The two share conversation before Chris Hansen entered the room and told Griffitt to take a seat. Griffitt responded, "Not a whole lot," when questioned about his purpose there. He claimed he was stopping by to see Adrianna, a twenty-two-year-old woman. Griffitt stated he was speaking with an "Amy" when they stopped talking and Adrianna began conversing with him, telling him she was Amy's aunt.

Chris began to lose patience, complaining that he couldn't find any evidence of Adrianna's existence and that Griffitt had already talked with the 13-year-old decoy about her age several times. Griffitt then asserted that he was being entrapped and was being lead on since there was no Adrianna. Furthermore, he insisted that he was conversing with Adrianna and that he believed the 13-year-old decoy had left. Chris made a statement about Griffitt's lack of eye contact when responding to questions. Chris then identified himself to Griffitt and revealed his affiliation with Dateline. Griffitt covered his face and asked them not to expose his face when the cameras came out. He walked out of the house, leaving behind all the items he brought. When police searched his car, they found MapQuest directions to the sting house.

During an interview with an investigator, Griffitt persisted in insisting that Adriana was the main factor in his decision to visit the sting home. After the investigator presented him comments he had made during the discussions proving that he was aware that the girl with whom he was conversing was thirteen-years-old, he claimed that his he wasn't thinking clearly because he had been put under a lot of stress. Griffitt further said he was unaware that when he arrived at the house, he would be having sex.

In 2010, Griffitt filed an appeal, contending that his request to have his interview with Chris Hansen suppressed should have been granted. He suggested that it should have been prohibited to show the footage of Chris's interview with him during the sting operation since it was more prejudiced than probative and would take too much time. He additionally argued that a condition of his probation which required alcohol testing was improper. Although the trial court agreed to eliminate alcohol testing from the probation requirements, the remainder of the verdict was upheld.

Griffitt was charged with a felony count of attempted lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age. His bail was set at $25,000. Following his arrest, Griffitt was once again brought to attention online, this time by the very Perverted Justice decoy who had originally posed as the teenage girl in their prior interaction. The decoy reestablished contact with the arresting officer, who expressed a willingness to arrest Griffitt again. The officer advised the Perverted Justice decoy to initiate communication with Griffitt to gauge his response.

Griffitt vigorously asserted his innocence and fought his case for nearly five years, dragging it out until July 2009. Despite still having no evidence, Griffitt's primary defense still revolved around the belief that he was communicating with Adrianna, the purported 13-year-old decoy's aunt, whom he claimed to be twenty-two years old. In the autumn of 2009, after just over an hour of deliberation, the jury selected a foreman and returned a guilty verdict on the felony charge that Griffitt was facing. He was subsequently sentenced to a year in county jail, with sixty days credited for time already served. Additionally, he received three years of probation, mandatory lifetime registration as a sex offender, a requirement to attend sex offender counseling, responsibility for various fees and fines, consent for random searches of his person and property, and the obligation to provide a DNA sample.

Griffitt lived in Long Beach at the time of the sting; a similar investigation would take place there not even a year later. Griffitt is one of only two Riverside predators whose booking photo is currently unavailable online, the other being Jonathan Daniel Vasquez . Griffitt is registered as a Low Risk sex offender.