Child Protective Services investigators have reportedly found a bed in the temple of the polygamist community of Eldorado, Texas. Authorities believe the bed was used by the elderly members of the sect to have sex with their under aged wives for the first time. This was happening after the community gathered in the building, The Associated Press reported.

The scandalous discovery was made public Wednesday by troopers, a week after the search has begun at the 1,700-acre polygamist compound build by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, said spokeswoman Tela Mange.

The members of the community appear to have broken the Texas law which prohibits polygamy as well as the marriage of girls under 16, regardless of their parents’ consent.

The investigation at the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado began last Thursday after the local family violence shelter received a phone call from 16-year-old girl, who said that she was forced to marry a 50-year-old man. The two had a child when the girl was 15 and her husband beat and raped her.

The search became more and more intense and with it grew the tension between state authorities and the members of the compound. However, they were cooperative and the state took custody of 416 children. Another 139 left the compound to stay with their children. All of them were sheltered at two sites in San Angelo, about 200 miles west of San Antonio.

Investigator found out that several teen girls at the ranch were pregnant. They were taken out of the compound because they were in danger of "emotional, physical, and-or sexual abuse."

The search and arrest warrant affidavit signed by Department of Public Safety investigator Leslie Brooks described what investigators found in the temple as “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".