As the saga of the polygamist sect in Texas, US unravels, more and more stories of the life inside tumble out.
According to court documents unsealed Wednesday, young teenage girls were required to have sex in a soaring white temple after their marriage in which too they had no say.
A number of teen girls at the compound are pregnant, and all the children have since been removed on the grounds that they were in danger of "emotional, physical, and-or sexual abuse."
The temple for sex "contains an area where there is a bed where males over the age of 17 engage in sexual activity with female children under the age of 17."
Agents found a bed in the temple with disturbed linens and what appeared to be a female hair, said the affidavit signed by Texas Ranger Leslie Brooks Long. The Rangers are the states investigative law enforcement arm.
The temple of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints also contained multiple locked safes, vaults and desk drawers that authorities sought access to as they searched for records showing alleged marriages of underage girls as young as 12 or 13 to older men and births among the teens. The affidavit unsealed Wednesday mentions a 16-year-old girl who has four children.
Texas law prohibits polygamy and the marriage of girls under 16.
Also Wednesday, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers completed a weeklong search of the 1,700-acre grounds, said spokeswoman Tela Mange.