The Bible tells us that things like this are commonplace before a civilization falls. Ancient Israel was passing their children through the fire to Molech in the end.
To cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech: the phrase, “through the fire”, is not in the text; but is well enough supplied from other places, where it is. Some think that their infants were not burnt to death with fire, but only were held over the flame by way of lustration; or were made to pass between two fires, and so were purified and dedicated to the idol. In any case God says: which I did not command them, nor did it come into My mind or heart that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. Jeremiah 32:35 AMP