I was watching a talkshow with some of the show moms and dads types on there. I can't believe some allowed their children to wear the clothes that their 'fans' sent them. I just googled 'child modeling' and look what I got back http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=778 Some parents are a little starstruck to me.
There was some Congressional inquiry a few years back into some "child modeling" websites, and I checked out the two that were mentioned in the course of that inquiry (after reading about it on FR of course). One featured a girl of 10-11, the other a 5 year old. There was plenty to see for free (like crotch view of the girls wearing super-short shorts, etc.), but also invitations to join the site as a paying member and get lots more on a fee-or-service basis. Like you could send clothes for the girls to "model" and get stills and videos back. And talk to them on the phone. And at least a few such sites had been found to be arranging for the pervs to travel to the child's home town for in-person "modeling" sessions.
Those parents were obviously pimping their daughters. The parents of kiddie beauty pageant regulars are probably a mix of idiots who think this is great way to start their little darlings on the road to stardom, and greedy monsters who are eager to rent out their little girls to the highest bidders. I doubt the Ramseys were the latter, but they were also too sophisticated to be oblivious to what was going on around those pageants (unlike some naive trailer-trash type parents, many of whom may actually believe that there's nothing but legitimate "show business" going on, and that the leering men in the audience who approach girls and their mothers afterwards are actually the "talent scouts" and "casting agents" they claim to be).