(Scratching my head) Hand over to be "molested" or as brides?
In many states, isn't it legal for an underage boy or girl to marry an older spouse with parental permission?
In Texas, i believe that age where a minor can get married with parental permission in 16.
But, perhaps there was sexual abuse of these children before they were pawned off to be married.
Polygamy is not legal in Texas. Marriage is legal at age 18. If you want to live in Texas, you obey Texas law. We do not give people the right to abuse their own children or any one else’s children. To do that, you have to live in Utah or Arizona, states that have coddled this group of abusers for generations. If a cult wants to have child sacrifices, are they going to allow that too?
If you're an older man, ask the next 15-year-old child on the street you see if she'd like to "marry" you. You'd be looking through bars when the authorities found you.
Let's put the shoe on the other foot, now, and see if you still scratch your head. Let's father some boys with docile, brainwashed, ignorant sheep-like men for fathers, raise them in a remote fenced compound ruled by domineering women, and when they are 13, "marry" them to the old women in power for "spiritual purposes," denying them free will in any matter. Actually, they'd get off lucky, because they wouldn't be pregnant and saddled with the old perv's child.
"Marriage" with parental permission is a farce with these cults. The "bride's" father will grant the permission, because it ultimately benefits a society that panders to his own perverted sexual nature (I suspect money or power changes hands, as well), and the mother of the "bride" grants her permission by the enforced absence of her own free will, knowledge and judgement.
Those old pervs are pretty smart. They know if they can get these poor child "brides" pregnant, they will stay with the cult to be with the babies they are forced to bear, who will then be prepared to be the next crop of "brides."
"Brides"; sheesh.