Woman held captive four days and beaten

YOUNGSTOWN — The inside of Billy J. Mock’s ransacked West Side home — with blood on the walls and a bent fireplace poker — matched in chilling detail what his brutally beaten girlfriend described to police.

Mock, 40, of North Richview Avenue was arraigned Wednesday in municipal court on charges of kidnapping and felonious assault. Judge Elizabeth A. Kobly set bond at $500,000 and a preliminary hearing for April 5.

Stacy McFarland, his 31-year-old girlfriend, was interviewed by police at an emergency care facility in Austintown. She said Mock held her captive and repeatedly beat her from Saturday until she managed to escape Tuesday afternoon.

McFarland, reached at her mother’s home today said it was OK to use her name but she declined to comment.

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