I would challenge anyone alleging this to be a hoax to just skim Nick Bryants account published in his book  It is  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 crossexamined police report If even  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 prostitutionpedophilia 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  paragraph article  Something is very wrong here