A woman has told a media conference her granddaughters, aged eight and six, were promised in marriage to members of the Agape Ministries cult.
Meanwhile, Senator Nick Xenophon says he warned the South Australian Government about a suspicious doomsday cult in Adelaide and has called for the group’s assets to be frozen.
Australian police are hunting three leaders of an international religious group after raids in Adelaide uncovered a stash of guns, detonators and ammunition.
South Australian fraud investigators are also examining payments from members who gave money to Agape Ministries International.
Police say there is no evidence the group is a Doomsday cult but allege the group was amassing weapons and planning to move to a Pacific island.
Police have seized an arsenal of weapons, high-powered ammunition and explosives from South Australian properties linked to a doomsday cult.
About 90 police have been involved in searches over the past two days of 12 properties owned by a religious sect known as the Agape Ministries of God, which believes the world is approaching the end.