IANAL, but doesn’t settlement mean they don’t admit fault, they have no judgement to actually force changes, and the same case can’t be brought again, aka, they get to keep harming kids, just have to cough up some tiny slice of profit and offer some lip service to doing better? Or, to rephrase, as long as the government gets a cut, they can keep abusing?

You are in fact right, but given a binary choice between war crimes, or war crimes AND Fascists, I’m afraid the right choice is war crimes without the side order of Fascism.