<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A total of seven suspects are now charged with abusing at least 10 children in an underground bunker in the </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/usa" rel="" target="_blank" title="US"><span>US</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Bibb County Sheriff's Office in Alabama shared the chilling details as the investigation continues to unfold.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Sheriff Jody Wade updated the public on the newest findings of the investigation and said the abuse started as early as 2022.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/hulk-hogan-death-professional-wrestling-icon-dies-aged-71/59ffe311-b3cc-4b61-b162-1c5bd463ab9d" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Hulk Hogan, icon in professional wrestling, dies at age 71</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span></span></strong><span>The children at the time were ages three to 15 years old. He said the children were tied to poles, bound to a bed or a chair inside the bunker, where sometimes there would be multiple people came to victimise them on a nightly basis.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Unfortunately, I'm afraid there's going to be more victims and many more suspects," Wade said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"And these [deputies] are diligent and they're going to run down everybody they can ... No child deserves this. That's the most horrible thing you can do. The power and control of it, the stealing, the innocence of the child and the horrible victimisation that they went through with these monsters."</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/us-child-sex-abuse-underground-bunker-locals-outraged/9452c9f8-e41f-45c1-b1b4-73a0d49fe042" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/jeffrey-epstein-update-us-justice-department-will-meet-with-ghislaine-maxwell-his-imprisoned-girlfriend/da5a5af8-cf05-4bfd-9559-26b3b729f87e" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Justice Department meeting with jailed Epstein girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The suspects, William "Chase" McElroy, Dalton Terrell, Andres Trejo, Timothy St John, Rebecca Brewer, Ricky Terrell, and Sara Terrell, are facing a range of charges including rape, sodomy, bestiality, human trafficking, and kidnapping.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The sheriff's office said some of the suspects are parents to some of the children involved. Wade said this operation could be gang-related and the ringleader, Trejo, may be the link. He also said some of the suspects' main source of income was sex trafficking, and the children, who Wade said were drugged during the abuse, were used to make up to US$1000 ($1518.60) in one night.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I couldn't imagine doing that to my kid," an unidentified Brent woman said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/hulk-hogan-dead-donald-trump-pays-tribute-to-wrestling-icon/2f6943d1-fd93-47bd-9864-cfada73102cd" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Donald Trump pays tribute to 'great friend' Hulk Hogan</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="styles__Wrapper-sc-2o34ro-0 cmwkBV"><div class="styles__Column-sc-2o34ro-3 jJDKrX"><a href="/content/2025/07/24/09/11/today-in-history-july-25-what-happened-on-this-day"><img alt="" sizes="(min-width: 1024px) 636px, (min-width: 768px) 396px, 100vw" src="https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/9kYtI_i4T0cFqyws87bqRg4C9WM=/396x223/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Fec544f8e-6718-4153-911a-cf17ba3a72c7" srcset="https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/9kYtI_i4T0cFqyws87bqRg4C9WM=/396x223/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Fec544f8e-6718-4153-911a-cf17ba3a72c7 396w, https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/DU5oMi870XkCpO2_tCsT8yP2rgs=/636x358/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Fec544f8e-6718-4153-911a-cf17ba3a72c7 636w"/></a></div><div class="styles__Column-sc-2o34ro-3 jJDKrX"><div class="styles__Headline-sc-2o34ro-4 hpbOlz">Scientists told patients they were being treated for a fatal disease - but it was a lie</div><div class="styles__Button-sc-2o34ro-1 eBjlmW"><a class="styles__ButtonLink-sc-2o34ro-2 hqpklJ" href="/content/2025/07/24/09/11/today-in-history-july-25-what-happened-on-this-day">View Gallery</a></div></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"If I need the money, I'm going to go out here and work. If you need money that bad to do that to your kid – and there's so many people that can't have kids that want to have kids – and there's people out here that do this to their kids. I don't understand it."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Mary Hicks said she raised her children in Brent and never would've thought this could happen in her community. She said she feels disgusted by the suspects' actions.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Parents, if y'all having problems with the child and you don't want the child no more, CPS will come and get them," she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"All you have to do is make that 1-800 number. Call CPS or take them to the nearest DHR. It's not worth all of this. If you didn't want the kids, don't have them."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>Support is available from the</span></strong><span> </span><strong><span>National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service</span></strong><span> </span><strong><span>at</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.1800respect.org.au/" title="https://www.1800respect.org.au/"><strong><span>1800RESPECT (1800 737 732)</span></strong></a><strong><span>.</span></strong></div></div>