Published 3:43 pm Tuesday, November 3, 2026 MONTICELLO, Ga. — Irvin Eugene Griffin is now a professed and convicted sex offender and will be labeled as such for the rest of his life. The Milledgeville man, who turns 80 in July 2027, decided just a few days before he was scheduled for trial in Baldwin County Superior Court to confess to the crimes he had been accused of rather than face a jury. Griffin pleaded guilty to three counts of child molestation. Griffin’s decision to plead came during a pre-trial motion hearing in Jasper County Superior Court in Monticello on the afternoon of Oct. 27. He pleaded guilty before Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit Superior Court Chief Judge Alison T. Burleson, according to District Attorney T. Wright Barksdale III. Griffin, who formerly worked with the Georgia Department of Corrections as a corrections officer and for several years served as a member of the City of Milledgeville Ethics Board, assisted his wife, Iva, who had operated a successful daycare business at the couple’s home in Milledgeville for decades. The district attorney said the crimes against each of the victims in the case — all under the age of 10 — happened at the home daycare. Barksdale told The Union-Recorder that it was a total surprise to him and Assistant District Attorney Nancy Scott Moskaly that Griffin was considering pleading guilty, let alone informing his attorney that he wished to plead. “We had been totally preparing for better than three weeks to go to trial in…
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