User blog comment:Darkest Shadow/SFW Winter Awards 2015 ♪Piano's Votes♪/@comment-1942179-20150201000053/@comment-25627885-20150201184743

Um, children's minds are easily moldable and he could have indoctrinated them into loyalty towards him. Meaning that he would have his own personal army of kids. Lets also remember that adults don't tend to take kids seriously so they would make the perfect spies/infiltrators/assassins.