TOLEDO, Ohio – An Ohio man and his 27-year-old son kept a teenage girl shackled in a basement for as long as a year, according to court documents.
Timothy Ciboro, 53, and Esten Ciboro, 27, were taken into custody early Thursday at the home on Noble Street in Toledo. Esten is charged with kidnapping to terrorize or to inflict serious physical harm. Timothy is charged with endangering children, torture and cruelly abusing a child. Both are being held on $500,000 bond.
(Read the complaint below)
Court documents say the 13-year-old girl told investigators the men are her step-father and step-brother, and that she was shackled by the ankle to a support beam in the darkened basement. She also had to go to the bathroom in a bucket that contained ammonia, according to court documents.
Police said the men fed her spoiled and old scraps of food.
Her imprisonment lasted as long as a year.
NBC 25/WNWO reported two other children in the home were put in foster care.
Details on how the mistreatment was discovered were not immediately released.
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“they’re doing pretty well. The two children were in better shape than the 13-year-old," Reese said.
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“I wouldn’t say she was malnourished, but her hygiene is questionable," Reese spoke about the 13-year-old girl.