This is a huge topic, though one often fraught with bogus stories peddled by paranoid cranks, which ultimately taint by association genuine evidence for the existence of elite child pandering networks.
Much like JFK research is implicitly discredited by being commonly lumped together with theories of ancient aliens, Qanon, Pizzagate and Satanic Panic stories function - whether by design or not - as cold water to be thrown on the entire premise of organized elite pedophilia. The figurehead selected to operate these networks tends to be an individual with no obvious qualifications for the position they hold. This individual usually has access to a vast slush fund of some sort whose origins is largely unexplained.
Such individuals tend to be the frequent beneficiaries of judicial miracles in the form of the absurd clemency afforded them when exposed. The individual often has direct albeit peripheral ties to the highest echelons of power, especially within intelligence circles.
However, when you examine in conjunction all such cases that have emerged over the past half century or so, you begin to notice a pattern, and the combined weight of all these bizarre happenstances paints a compelling portrait of something dark and unsettling at the core of Western christendom: the reality of state protected, ritual pedophilia as a systemic, parapolitical phenomenon.
Satan was culturally omnipresent in the s, in heavy metal music and horror movies, and a persuasive case has been made that this cultural Satan was confabulated with actual reports of child rape and murder to create a hysteria in which it became hard to distinguish reality from fantasy. At any rate, in Kern County, California in the early 80s, a fabulist and busybody named Mary Ann Barbour coached her two step-grandchildren into accusing their parents and several others of molesting them.
