Not necessarily even then. I think that someone under the age of consent can still legally marry with parental approval in some, if not most, states.
I think at age 15 teenagers can marry with parental consent in TX. The State of TX needs to pull its head out of its rear-end and start following the Constitution. An entire community was condemned on the basis of a false report. At the time law enforcement personnel could not find the “victim” and/or the perp at the ranch, they should have backed off.
The one thing that is the most outrageous to me is that they held, and are still holding, adult women against their will. That is frightening to me, not to mention rounding up all the innocent little children, dumping them in a coliseum, then in creepy foster homes. It makes my skin crawl.
Is this my America?