Hidden Horrors: Child Victims in Underground Shelter

This is where authorities claim six children, the youngest only three years old, were repeatedly victimized for more than a year. It's an underground bunker near the home of William Chase McElroy, one of the men accused of raping and sodomizing the children, as well as kidnapping and human trafficking.

Inside the bunker, there were chairs and beds, and the children were drugged by Mr. Trejos and tied to the bed, the chair, and a pole. Then, people would come and pay money to have sex with these children. Assistant District Attorney Brian Jones says there could be more victims and more suspected perpetrators. He states that the grand jury has indicted a fourth person, but he cannot reveal their name because that person has not yet been arrested. But he says we may never know the full extent of the horrors that happened here. There are some allegations with individuals that we will have a difficult time identifying.

Just because we don't know their names. And the children were drugged, according to one of the co-defendants, so they might not be able to recognize or identify anyone, Jones says. Many of these details come from some of the defendants themselves. This has been a difficult case for investigators and prosecutors, one they have been investigating since the beginning of the year. It absolutely infuriates me. But we have to put that aside and just do the job. That's all we can do. It might be a comfort to investigators and authorities to know that the crimes these defendants are accused of carry a mandatory minimum sentence of life in prison without parole.