Texas authorities stated Tuesday they removed eleven children from a crowded home where a registered sex offender resides after they discovered 8 confined in a small, dark bedroom with some tied to their beds with restraints.

Aside from the children, ten adults were living in the 1-story, 1,700-square-foot home in Dayton, about thirty miles northeast of Houston, Child Protective Services spokeswoman Gwen Carter revealed. A month after the house was raided, authorities are still attempting to determine how the children are related and why they were there, she said.

The children ranged in age from five months to eleven years. Three who were age five or older had not been enrolled in school, Carter said.

The children were taken from the home after authorities discovered 2 two-year-old children tied up to a bed during a January visit to the home, according to a court document.

A legally blind, five-year-old girl “was in a restraint on a filthy mattress, and appeared to be in a daze,” the document stated. One child had a  knocked-out tooth along with a black eye.

The adults told investigators they bound the children when they slept or took a nap during the day “for safety,” the document stated. An investigator gave note that none of the adults said they saw anything wrong with the arrangement.

Two of the children had what authorities worried was pneumonia and were taken to a children’s hospital. All have been placed in foster homes since, Carter stated.

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