Mom’s powerful five-word message to smug kidnapper who tortured her daughter with a baseball bat during four days of hell

A mother made a powerful five-word statement to her daughter’s kidnapper as she urged a judge to put him behind bars before sentencing him.

William Mozingo, 34, pleaded guilty in court Tuesday to crimes of kidnapping, kidnapping, assault and strangulation for kidnapping Chloe Jones in Kenmore, Ohio, and holding her in an upstairs room in his garage in October 2023.

He also pleaded guilty to another charge in which he escaped from a community corrections facility. WJW reports.

But before a judge sentenced him to prison, she heard victim impact statements from Jones and her mother Jessi Barham, who spoke directly to the smug kidnapper in her comments.

“You don’t scare me, William,” Barham told him, turning away from her.

Jones was homeless when Mozingo approached her and promised her shelter in October 2023, the victim told Judge Susan Baker Ross on Tuesday: according to the Akron Beacon Journal.

Instead, he tied her up and kept her without water for four days, repeatedly telling her she would never see her family again.

Mozingo doused her with gasoline and hit her repeatedly with a baseball bat, before Jones was eventually discovered battered and bruised by the owner of the garage who had tipped off the police.

He also recorded more than 400 videos of himself holding Jones against her will, 10 of which were played in court on Tuesday.

In the clips, Mozingo could be heard threatening Jones, demanding payment for cigarettes and threatening to burn her alive.

“All I could think about was my son and how I was never going to see him again and how I was never going to get out alive,” Jones testified after the videos were played.

Summit County Assistant Prosecutor Jamila Mitchell said Jones suffered a traumatic brain injury, a broken nose, a broken hand, bruises all over her body, swollen eyes and long-term mental trauma.

Barham also said her daughter became paralyzed on the left side of her face, spent three days in intensive care and can no longer remember new information.

“You did this to my daughter, you did this to my child and you are not a man, that is not what a man does – a man protects women,” she said.

“You’re evil, you’re a bad guy and you should never see the light of day again because you’re a predator, and you have an MO and you’ve proven it time and time again,” Jones continued. , adding, “My daughter will never be the same.

“She’ll probably have to suffer a lot longer than he will, and that’s not fair.”

Barham urged the judge to “protect every woman he could get his hands on” and keep him in jail “until he’s weak, until he wets his diapers.”

She noted that Mozingo has previously pleaded guilty in four other kidnapping or abduction-related cases.

He was first jailed for kidnapping in 2011, and was on parole for further kidnapping offenses when he attacked both Mastin and Jones.

In 2014, he was sentenced to nine months for kidnapping and in 2017 he was arrested again for holding a woman at knifepoint in a Walmart restroom.

He was jailed for 18 months after the attack on Mastin and was released in December 2018.

Four months later, he was arrested for trapping a 29-year-old ex-girlfriend in his Canton home, beating her, choking her and holding a knife to her throat.

Four days later she was found unconscious, badly beaten and half-naked on a nearby road before being taken to hospital with serious head injuries.

The Stark County Court sentenced him to an additional 18 months, and he was released on parole prior to his last recorded assault.

Additionally, Mozingo pleaded guilty to assault in an unrelated 2020 case and was sentenced to six months in prison for drug possession, and was already on his state’s violent crimes registry.

“The fact is, this man should not have been free,” Barham said, telling the judge, “You have an opportunity to do what every other judge has not done.”

But Mozingo claimed he was under the influence of drugs when he kidnapped Jones, pleading for leniency.

“I would say this incident came out of a time when we were high on methamphetamine,” he said.

“I have had a lot of time to think and reflect and I would like to apologize to the victim and the family.”

Still, Baker sentenced Mozingo to a prison term of between 25 and 31 and a half years.

“The behavior here is extreme,” she said as she handed down the sentence. ‘I think there should be an extreme punishment.

“The pain and harm you caused the victim will never leave her.”

Summit County Prosecutor Elliot Kolkovich praised the verdict after the hearing.

“William Mozingo’s criminal history has proven that the streets are safer when he is behind bars,” Kolkovich said in a statement.

“We are grateful that the victim survived this horrific crime and hope that this sentence will give her the peace to move on from this terrible crime.”

If Mozingo is released from prison, he will be required to register with the county sheriff every year for 10 years.