Quote Originally Posted by Delicious Taffy View Post
Here's a question I thought of the other day. Why does the nutbag want the babies to look so badly? Like, how is a newborn baby gonna kill itself, when it can barely even move? Maybe that's a little dark, but what exactly did he expect to happen?
To me this ties into the fey angle, swiping kids is their MO.

As for the practical reasons, not sure if there are any, but maybe getting them that young gives them sleeper agents or more direct hosts. There's a lot of directions they could have taken that, and adds a dose of Adult Fear to the creatures as well because now you really do have to watch the kids and train them to be super-disciplined.