England was nearly bankrupted after WWI and almost certainly after WWII. With the dissolution of state finances, beggars rather than political leaders took over. In the absence of money, bodies (girls, boys, etc.) were the preferred payment. The english kept it under wraps for the most part, except for PR disasters like the Profumo Affair in the 1960's.
Now it's the turn of the USA. We're bankrupt, so the politicians (DA's and judges as well) are alternately pimps and whores. Massive pedophilia and human trafficking by the NSA/CIA, honeypots, the raping of public finance, all covered up by a complicit and corrupt judiciary - the list of deadly sins goes on and on.
https://jamiefcrawford.substack.com/p/the-princess-and-the-pedophile