Learning about this shocked me to my fucking core

A friend told me about it the other day, and I couldn't believe it. They just gave children to pedophiles, with the express purpose of those pedophiles raping them... How? How can anyone convince anyone else this is a good idea? With all the power of my intellect I am not capable to imagine a scenario that would lead to this result. Even if every single person in the German government was evil, shouldn't the public have stopped it? Because it wasn't even a secret

Please, I need to understand