For mothers like Abcug, the version of QAnon promoted by the Children’s Crusade offered a more comforting reality than the real world. These parents hadn’t lost custody of their children because of mental illness, abuse, or drug addiction—they were victims of the deep state whose children had been kidnapped. And like every other branch of the government, it turned out that social workers, too, were working for the pedophile-cannibals.
