According to the official reports, a Texas father was sentenced to four years in prison for injury to a child for whipping, pinching and kicking his duct tape-bound 10-year-old son.

The San Antonio Express-News has reported that David W. Dill, 49, of Kerrville, is a fundamentalist Christian who said his abuse was discipline consistent with Old Testament teachings.

The newspaper further reported that a judge sentenced Dill Monday on the jury's January conviction.

Dill testified on Monday, saying that he agreed with the verdict, "Up until the jury's verdict, I thought I was innocent. I thought what I did was OK ... based on the Bible."

Probation requested by Stephen Harpold, Dill's defense lawyer, saying Dill's wife divorced him last month and Child Protective Services seeks to terminate Dill's parental rights to his three minor children.

Prosecutor Lucy Wilke, adding that the Dill had meted out such discipline more than once, and that he still believes in his original Old Testament view of discipline, said, "This is not discipline. It's a sick, violent assault. The fact that it was committed by a father doesn't make it better. It makes it worse."

Texas District Judge Keith Williams also said, "What I have a really hard time getting my hands around is how a person of your intellect could ever justify this kind of discipline with a child." (With Inputs from Agencies)