They do it knowing (or at least thinking) they can get away with it. They flaunt it. They say, "Look at what we do to your children and there's not one thing you can do to stop us. WE have the power here, YOU don't. Try to stop us and we will 'suicide' you." The thing is though, their time has been up for decades now. They are living on borrowed time. Their punishment will not be kind nor swift, in this world or the next.