Woman describes days of captivity, beatings, brutality

At one point, the woman lost consciousness after hitting her head on the stairs, she said.
By PATRICIA MEADE
VINDICATOR CRIME REPORTER
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 Wednesday, said it was OK to use her name but she declined to comment.
McFarland described to police having her head slammed into a wall four or five times Saturday when they returned from looking at a car and she'd told Mock she wanted to go to her mother's.
How he reacted
She said he barricaded the front door with a large chair, lifted her from the couch by her throat, threw her across the room and dragged her by her hair. She said he was throwing chairs in the kitchen and smashing plates and breaking all the clocks in the house. He dragged her to an upstairs bedroom and barricaded the door with a chair, reports show.
On Sunday, she stayed on the couch all day. Mock, she told police, threatened to kill her if she tried to leave. He threw lamps, furniture, dishes and anything else he could find, she said; he filled glasses with water, threw the water in her face and also spit in her face.
When she got caught trying to call a friend, he ripped the phone and threw it against a wall, where it shattered.
The same behavior continued Monday, with Mock using a rubber mallet to beat McFarland in the head and face, reports show.
Mock, who is 6 feet 1 inch and weighs 250 pounds, is also accused of lifting McFarland by the hair onto the kitchen counter and then slamming her head into the cupboards. Later, he threw her onto the living room floor and when she begged to use the bathroom, told her to urinate on the floor. He then hit her so hard in the right leg with a fireplace poker that it bent, police were told.
She told police that Mock dragged her upstairs to use the bathroom and then dragged her down to the cellar, pulling some of her hair out in the process. Her head bounced off the stairs, and she lost consciousness.
Escaped from house
On Tuesday, she grabbed her purse and ran out after he stepped outside to get the mail. He tackled her in the yard, letting go when she screamed for help, police were told.
McFarland ran to a nearby house and called for an ambulance. Patrolman Ronald Jankowski, who interviewed the woman, noted severe bruising all over her body.
Police sent to Mock's house found it ransacked with broken dishes, lamps, clocks and chairs all over the first floor. Officers, aside from blood on the walls, found the bent fireplace poker, a broken phone on the floor and one in the trash along with the rubber mallet.
A neighbor told police that she'd heard arguing the past few days but added that Mock and McFarland fought all the time. Mock, who had gone to his mother's residence in Austintown, was taken into custody there.