` ::: I would challenge anyone alleging this to be a hoax to just skim Nick Bryant's account published in his book.  It is 500 pages of extremely detailed information, and Bryant clearly has no qualms about debunking false info.  This is not a ``conspiracy theory`` book.  It reads like a meticulous cross-examined police report. If even 10% of the information in that book is true (and there is strong evidence that most of it is true),  then there was certainly a real child prostitution-pedophilia network involved in the Franklin Scandal that has been actively covered up.   As user wayne has stated,  there are numerous official committees that substantiated the child abuse claims.  Puzzlingly, user MONGO appears to be asserting certain knowledge that it was all a hoax.    What is most telling is how widespread of an event this was, and how many official parties were involved.  Yet Wikipedia has nothing to show but a tiny 4 paragraph article.  Something is very wrong here.    `