What spiritual principles/laws are at play during a ritual child sacrifice to Molech, Baal or any other pagan deity, as recorded in the Old Testament?

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What happens in the spirit realm during a ritual child sacrifice? Are there spiritual laws/principles that are tapped into when a ritual child sacrifice to Molech, Baal or any other pagan deity is performed?

I believe most Christians would answer your questions with "nothing" / "no". Molech, Baal, etc. are false gods. Even assuming people worshipping them are actually dealing with a demon in some ways, God has power over demons, and in particular, all souls belong to God (Ezekiel 18:4).

Even so, I would question whether any such entities really exist, or if such were merely delusions on the part of the pagan worshipers. Note particularly 1 Kings 18:20-40.

Thus, while practitioners may commit sinful acts in the process of worship, such acts would have no spiritual result (aside from the results of the sin).

To be clear, demons have been given limited earthly power. It is therefore plausible that a person may be able to enter into an agreement with a demon to cause some earthly effect, such as obtaining wealth or bringing ill to enemies. I am not, however, aware of any "spiritual laws" — aside from the limits on demons set by God — which might govern such agreements. For hopefully-obvious reasons, you are not likely to find these described, if they exist, in the Bible, nor do I feel this question is on topic for this SE. (This excludes, of course, demons commanded in the name of God/Christ to do things which God might command of them, which seems to generally be "leave", "come out", and such; many biblical examples may be found. I expect that, since "go away" would be a superset of just about anything else a Godly person might wish to command a demon to do, this is why there are few examples of anything else being commanded.)

To address another point, part of your conundrum seems to be difficulty believing that humans would undertake such heinous actions as child sacrifice without receiving some actual, genuinely correlated benefit. To that, I can suggest that you underestimate the effects of confirmation bias and the placebo effect, as well as the human capacity for evil. Pop culture notwithstanding, I think the majority of Christians do not believe that Hitler received any supernatural benefit for his atrocities.

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