Very messed up.
As bad as abusing children is, I think it goes deeper.
I think they're 'hiding' an even worse conspiracy in behind this one. It works because those who investigate see the horrific child abuse, which is almost as bad as something can get, and don't look closer at it.
I think they're hiding something worse than sex with kids. I think they're actually also doing experiments on some of them, possibly rituals, possibly extracting their blood or enzymes. Not all the victims get the full treatment, of course. And when anyone investigates they mainly 'only' see the rape, and the young age of the victims. The deeper conspiracy is allowed to exist in the shadows of the first, because the first is so terrible already.
I think I'm right about this, too, unfortunately.