America’s Pedophilia Epidemic: Nick Bryant, an investigative journalist and author of THE FRANKLIN SCANDAL: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse and Betrayal, draws devastating parallels between an interstate child-sex ring that hit the headlines in the eighties and the current Epstein story. Those parallels and a press unwilling to shine a constant, unflinching light on the subject help explain why the public is unaware that pedophilia in U.S. government agencies and around the country has reached epidemic proportions.