India, Nov. 14 -- Megyn Kelly is under public backlash for claiming that Jeffrey Epstein was actually "not a pedophile" because he preferred 15-year-old girls rather than 8-year-old ones.

On Wednesday's episode of "The Megyn Kelly Show," the American attorney sought to downplay the seriousness of the charges against the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged with sex trafficking of minors. The US Department of Justice says he had sex with girls as young as 14.

Kelly, however, insisted that Epstein was into the "barely legal type", and so she was not sure whether the term "pedophile" could be applied to him.

In conversation with NewsNation host Batya Ungar-Sargon, Megyn Kelly said that a person closely associated with the ...