Sect raid police find evidence of underage marriage

Police searching a 1,700-acre religious compound in Texas found a bed in a limestone temple thought to be used by male members to have sex with their underage wives.

Police searching a 1,700-acre religious compound in Texas found a bed in a limestone temple thought to be used by male members to have sex with their underage wives.

The discovery was revealed as officers completed their week-long search of the grounds of the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

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