The one blond girl doesn't look very comfortable.
If you want to know how we came to the torture and murder of children, here's how. Near death experiences causes a body to produce various neurotransmitters and endorphins in large quantities to ease the pain, just like a heroin/cocaine/DMT speedball. Long ago, pharoahs figured out, hey if I can 'milk' those substances from my victim while they're dying and get them into myself, I'll get the yummy speedball effect. That's how you arrive at torture and murder and human sacrifice. Once you do it, you want to do it again, so you do it again. A lot, if you have the power. You start to fetishize it and systematize it. Eventually, you discover that it works best with kids. This is how you get a death cult that never goes away, because it's transmitted secretly from generation to generation, and the people who participate have to be top notch manipulators to get away with it. Our overlords are super high functioning junkies.
This is another reason for the abuse of children. They are deliberately trying to produce sociopaths, and the kids who enjoy the sadism survive, and the ones who have the instinct to protect, don't. It takes a lot of work to produce a good crop of degenerates. It's survival of the fittest, where "fittest" means "most sadistic". This is actually what The Shining is about. You get to be a "caretaker" of the "Overlook" if you have "the belly" to kill your kid to prove you are one of them, one of "the Shining", which is the English translation for "the Illuminati".