--- title: Father and Son Charged For Hiding Teen Girl For a Year description: 'She was kept in the dark, allowed to sit on a plastic bucket or the concrete floor' canonical: https://time.com/4343859/father-son-kidnap-teen/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-20T21:03:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T17:44:05.365Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Father and Son Charged for Chaining Teen Girl in Basement for a Year og:description: "She was kept in the dark, allowed to sit on a plastic bucket or the concrete floor" og:url: https://time.com/4343859/father-son-kidnap-teen/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt01b1e37993235aba/6988942c8e060148e3465fb0/ciboro.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: epa05319553 A mugshot combo photo provided by Lucas County Jail on 20 May 2016 shows Timothy Ciboro (L) and Esten Ciboro, at Lucas County Jail in Toledo, Ohio, USA. Reports on 19 May 2016 state that a 13-year-old girl on 18 May escaped from a basement in og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Father and Son Charged for Chaining Teen Girl in Basement for a Year twitter:description: "She was kept in the dark, allowed to sit on a plastic bucket or the concrete floor" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt01b1e37993235aba/6988942c8e060148e3465fb0/ciboro.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Father and Son Charged for Chaining Teen Girl in Basement for a Year by [Elaine Aradillas / People](/author/people/) ## Elaine Aradillas / People May 20, 2016 9:03 PM CUT  Timothy Ciboro (left) and Esten Ciboro at Lucas County Jail in Toledo, Oh., in a mugshot provided on May 20, 2016. Timothy Ciboro (left) and Esten Ciboro at Lucas County Jail in Toledo, Oh., in a mugshot provided on May 20, 2016.Lucas County Jail/EPA by [Elaine Aradillas / People](/author/people/) ## Elaine Aradillas / People May 20, 2016 9:03 PM CUT A teenage girl escaped from an Ohio basement where she told officials she had been allegedly chained for a year. “The 13-year-old victim reported that the defendant and his adult son kept her shackled by the ankle to a support beam in the basement of their house for different periods of time, once lasting as long as a year,” according to court documents. The defendant is her stepfather, Timothy Ciboro, 53, and his son Esten, 27\. Both were charged with one count of kidnapping and one count of endangering a child. Their bond was set at $500,000 each. They have not entered pleas and are expected to attend a preliminary court hearing on May 26, according to court documents. The girl, whose identity is being withheld by officials, managed to escape at about 9 p.m. Wednesday when the suspects left their Toledo home for a jog, according to a police report [obtained by the _Toledo Blade_](http://www.toledoblade.com/Police-Fire/2016/05/19/Father-son-accused-of-kidnapping-13-year-old-girl.html "undefined"). “She was kept in the dark, allowed to sit on a plastic bucket or the concrete floor,” and went to the restroom in a bucket filled with ammonia, according to documents obtained by PEOPLE. The girl, along with two younger siblings, were taken into the custody of the Lucas County Children Services. She reportedly [told officials](http://www.aol.com/article/2016/05/19/ohio-girls-stepfather-stepbrother-charged-for-keeping-her-chai/21380515/ "undefined") that their mother left them and moved to Las Vegas, and that she had not attended school since the first grade. _This_ [_article_](http://www.people.com/article/teen-girl-escaped-alleged-shackles-father-son-charged "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://People.com "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4343859/father-son-kidnap-teen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4343859/father-son-kidnap-teen/"},"headline":"Father and Son Charged for Chaining Teen Girl in Basement for a Year","datePublished":"2016-05-20T21:03:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T17:44:05.365Z","description":"\"She was kept in the dark, allowed to sit on a plastic bucket or the concrete floor\"","url":"https://time.com/4343859/father-son-kidnap-teen/","keywords":["Crime","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt01b1e37993235aba/6988942c8e060148e3465fb0/ciboro.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Elaine Aradillas / People"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt01b1e37993235aba/6988942c8e060148e3465fb0/ciboro.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"epa05319553 A mugshot combo photo provided by Lucas County Jail on 20 May 2016 shows Timothy Ciboro (L) and Esten Ciboro, at Lucas County Jail in Toledo, Ohio, USA. 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