I think PA is being hung out to dry simply because this business is dragging on unresolved, and the longer it does the more he becomes 'guilty by association'. However, you cannot prove someone knew something and they cannot be convicted on something they might not have known. It hasn't been proven how much Andrew knew about Epstein. As for his evening with the girl in question, she was 17 years old which is past the age of consent in this country. Maybe he didn't even know her age, might have thought she was 18 or 19, who knows? It just seems the dreadful stink this is creating may be more than it actually is. If he did bed her then he has made this a whole lot worse by lying about it, but so far this has not been proven.