To gain entry to the corridors of real power you have to be controllable by the current insiders.  Even if you don’t have pedophile tendencies, you have to cooperate in some kind of activity for which you can be blackmailed, and needless to say raping, torturing and murdering children would be a prime candidate for such purposes.   This is the key to the social control and cohesion at the top levels of the power structure.  For instance, see this, this, this, this and this.  Also see the links in the reference section starting at “Conspiracy of Silence”.