You can be aware of a topic, and try to add your 2 cents now and again, but much like reckless oil spillage and PCB contamination there is very little chance to an average person being able to directly stop it. My wife is a teacher and she has a young girl in her class who was raped age approx 7 while her mom was preoccupied, according to their sanitized version of what took place. The father is not in the picture and it seems like when their power went out they stayed with a local predator. The girl had recovered but when they relocated she started to smell like fish which is a tell tale sign of vaginosis, which 7 year old's don't get without help. All the authorities are aware of this families situation and the changes taking place to the girl.
Nothing ever seems to get done for these kids and their families to end the cycle, and I honestly can't give any simple solution for ending the problem. It's not just elites who predate on kids, I'd wager its on par with the general population. 90+ percent of abusers were abused themselves typically by family members. When I was in grade 7, so 1992, there was a boy in the area whose parents rented him out for sex at their trailer. That was all known by authorities and was eventually stopped I believe. They really took their time though, the behavior was there well before they tried to start a for profit venture.
Maybe overall this energy could be better spent on rebuilding our close personal friendships and community so we can police ourselves and have the capacity to provide a safe loving home for these kids. While were at it creating good jobs for the bread earner of the home so we can afford to have a spare room in our home where an extra kid could sleep. Daycare is not able to provide the one on one time these kids need. Time is also needed to rehabilitate that person in the community if they're ready to move on. Followed up with the peer pressure to make the change necessary to reform and the reward of having their family whole.
Like an infection just cutting off the diseased part is not enough to root out the underlying infection, some sort of cleansing is needed for the whole organism. It's why we ignore its existence for the most part, its too big to cure and its happening a lot closer to home then most of us ever realize. Belief may be the enemy of knowing but it is also paramount to existence. Our belief does create our reality, our belief in cure is a more important factor in recovery then the cure itself. Similarly our belief in disease can sometimes bring about ill health in a "well" person. What if our negative emotions created from knowledge of these abuses just feeds and compels the most malevolent predators to intensify what they're doing to receive more of what they crave from their "food source" ie. people and their emotional response.