An Ohio father and son accused of imprisoning and raping a teenager in their basement will serve as their own attorneys – with a Bible in hand.
Timothy Ciboro and his son Esten Ciboro, 28, asked a judge Friday whether they would be permitted to bring their Bible with them when the trial begins Monday, the Toledo Blade reports.
Esten Ciboro called the Bible “the only law book that truly matters.”
““There’s a great deal of strategy in Scripture and I use those strategies in everything I do,” Esten Ciboro told the court, according to the Toledo Blade.
A judge allowed them to bring a Bible to court, but they won’t be able to use it during witness questioning.
The father and son – who are representing themselves – are accused of rape, kidnapping and child endangering.
Both have pleaded not guilty.
The men were arrested last summer after a 13-year-old ran from their Toledo home and told police she used a spare key to unlock herself after being kept shackled in a darkened basement for nearly a year.
She and two other children from the home have been put in foster care.
With News Wire Services
Death penalty now once they are found guilty.
IN THE FIRST PLACE………. THE “BIBLE” DOESNT BELONG IN THE COURTROOM…………. IT CAN BE INTERPRETED A MILLION DIFFERENT WAYS…. EVEN THE APOSTLES KNEW THIS….
2Pe_3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
LET THEM MAKE FOOLS OF THEMSELVES. IF THE CHILDS STORY IS TRUE, THERE WILL BE NO JUSTIFICATION FOR IT IN THE “BIBLE”.
I agree Koyote. Stupid religious nuts don’t know the OT is dead and gone. They pull that crap out to make all the false Christian religions of the world.
Throw the ‘book’ at ’em.
Then throw away the key.
ZACLY….. THEIR OWN “BIBLE
‘ EVEN………………………
Wanna bet it’s NOT KJ?
LOL… when did you change your poster name spelling, KIOYOTE? 🙄
If this is true and they raped the girl, it sounds to me like these folks were in some kind of “Christian” church cult–there are many of those, especially Pentacostals and snake charmer church cults, or Fundamentalist LDS types…churches that let men rape women for some “offense” the woman did, or beating up kids because they violated some Old Testament “spare the rod” type “offense”. And folks wonder why Christianity is either dying out or becoming way too apostate!