The headline answers itself!
Powerful people who have no religion tend toward paedophilia. With no God they have nothing to measure their lives against but pleasure and power. Paedophilia embodies both. They must find ever more exciting outlets to prove thei are real and alive and their outlets become tame with habituation so they must go farther. It is common to oligarchies in all societies. It explodes through the society as the oligarchy makes its perversions normal and legal.