Megyn Kelly has been eviscerated for suggesting Jeffrey Epstein was not an “actual pedophile” because he preyed on “barely legal” 15-year-olds, not elementary-aged kids.

Kelly made the bizarre assertion after claiming she has a source who does not believe Epstein was a pedophile at all, apparently. However, Kelly’s definition of pedophilia appears to deviate from what most Americans understand the word to mean.

“I do know somebody very, very close to this case who is in a position to know virtually everything,” Kelly said Monday. “And this person has told me from the start, years and years ago, that Jeffrey Epstein, in this person’s view, was not a pedophile.”

She continued, “This is this person’s view, who was there for a lot of this, but that he was into the barely legal type. Like, he liked 15-year-old girls. I’m just giving you facts that he wasn’t into, like, eight-year-olds. But he liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were, but would look legal to a passerby.”

The age of consent in Florida, where many of Epstein’s victims say they were raped, is 18.

Activist Shannon Watts said of Kelly’s remarks, “Megyn Kelly trying to convince her listeners that sex trafficking girls is less offensive if they’ve gone through puberty.”

She added in a second post, “Kelly is using her platform and power to portray Epstein and Trump as horny men, as opposed to sexual predators or pedophiles.”

Kelly, 54, herself the mother of a 14-year-old girl, doubled down on her take later in the show.

She claimed that she viewed Epstein as an “actual” pedophile only after Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that he had possessed thousands of videos with child sexual abuse material earlier this year.

“For the first time, I thought, oh, no, he was an actual pedophile,” she said. “I don’t know whether it’s true. I have to be honest, I don’t really trust Pam Bondi’s word on the Epstein matters anymore.”