Horrifying details of children drugged, bound, sexually abused for money in underground Alabama bunker revealed
An Alabama man is accused of tying children up in an underground bunker and allowing men to pay roughly $200 to sexually abuse them.
Andres Velazques-Trejo, 29, William Chase McElroy, 21, and Dalton Terrell, also 21, are jailed in connection with the horrific sex abuse and human trafficking of at least six children between the ages of 3 and 10 for more than a year.
A fourth person, Timothy St. John, a 23-year-old Bibb County resident, was later arrested in Chilton County on charges of rape, sodomy, human trafficking, kidnapping, bestiality and cruelty to animals.
“He would tie one child to the bed, one child to a chair and one to one of the support poles,” Bibb County Assistant District Attorney Bryan Jones said of Velazques-Trejo.
“Then he would allow people to pay to have sex with the children,” Jones said. “It’s hard to fathom that someone can do this to a child.”
Bibb County Sheriff Jody Wade announced the indictments over the weekend.
Jones on Tuesday described the underground bunker as the basement of an old house at or near the home of a family member of McElroy.
The basement had been converted, at some point, to be used as a storm shelter and that’s where the repeated abuse took place between January 2024 and earlier this year.
Jones said the bunker had a concrete floor, an old bed, a couple of chairs and concrete pilings holding up the ceiling.
Wade’s weekend statement said the investigation began Feb. 4 of this year “following concerns regarding the sexual abuse of children in an underground bunker located in Brent.”
Two of the victims were found to be performing sex acts on each other.
When discovered, they reported that McElroy had done to them, or taught them to do, the things they were doing to each other, Jones said.
The accusations alleged the children were forced to endure vaginal intercourse, anal intercourse, and oral sex.
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