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Bob Ricks, the FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge during the standoff, says in the series there was "no doubt that David Koresh had sex with young kids, some as young as 10." (Numerous allegations of child sexual abuse were posthumously made against Koresh in the aftermath of the Waco siege, but he was never arrested or charged with any related crimes.)

Jones says she remembers "talking to the other girls that were 10 to maybe 13. They would giggle and laugh about being one of his wives one day and having his kids, how much it was an honor."

And according to what Koresh—whose real name was Vernon Wayne Howell—passed on to his followers, 12 was the age at which a girl became a woman. He reportedly married wife Rachel Koresh (née Jones) when she was 14 and then sometime after claimed to have the revelation that he should take other wives.

"People think that a man having sex with a bunch of underage girls is a crime," Waco survivor Kathryn Schroeder says in the series. "And in conventional wisdom that could probably be very well true. However, these weren't underage girls because you come of age at 12. So all of these girls were adults in our belief system."

Jones recalls Koresh spanking her with a "really big paddle" to punish her. "If I tensed up he would put the paddle to my butt, then pull it back again," she says, "and he wouldn't hit me until I was not ready for it. And that was almost every day. A lot of people have told me that he was trying to groom me."

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