Jan 5, 2016 3 min read

A Greene County man is accused of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend and imprisoning her in his rural camping trailer near Holbrook for four days while he allegedly raped and beat her on numerous occasions over the weekend.

State police arrested Ian J. Nakonechni, 28, of Jackson Township, and charged him Tuesday morning with 15 counts of rape and other felony charges in connection with the four-day assault on the woman.

Police said the 30-year-old woman and Nakonechni had just broken up, so she rode with him and his mother, Brenda, from Waynesburg back to their home at 383 Falling Timber Road to retrieve her belongings Thursday afternoon. When they arrived at the property, Nakonechni and the woman went into a white camper next to a house.

Nakonechni then locked the door and the two began talking before he began to call her “vulgar” names, police said. He then began hitting her, first with his hands and then with an electrical cord, black belt and knife sharpener, before kicking her in the head, police said.

Police said he then demanded she remove her clothes and perform sex acts on him.

“The victim complied out of fear,” state police Trooper Daniel Barnhart wrote in court documents.

Nakonechni then raped her, police said.

He continued to hold the woman in the trailer against her will over the next few nights, police said, and demanded she sleep in his bedroom on two nights. He locked the door and threatened to stab her if she tried to leave, police said.

The woman told police Nakonechni continued to beat her and raped her nearly 20 times while in the camper, court documents indicate. He would also take her into the main house at times when his parents weren’t home and give her medication or treatment for her injuries, police said.

On Sunday, the woman was able to speak to Nakonechni’s mother privately while inside the home and told her of the situation.

“She told her Nakonechni was beating her and she needed help,” Barnhart wrote in court documents. “His mother said, ‘Oh no, not again’ and asked her if she could wait until the next day.”

The mother told her to run from the camper between noon and 1 p.m. Monday when Nakonechni’s father would be waiting in the driveway to pick her up in a truck. He took her to Nakonechni’s brother, who brought her back to her family in Waynesburg.

“It was an opportunistic time to run away,” Barnhart said.

Barnhart said they are continuing to investigate if anyone else was aware of the situation.

State police interviewed the woman at WHS-Greene hospital Monday afternoon. Barnhart said she suffered extensive bruising and remained sore.

Troopers later filed numerous charges against Nakonechni, including 15 counts of rape and one count each of aggravated assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, terroristic threats, unlawful restraint, simple assault, reckless endangerment and indecent assault.

District Judge Lee Watson arraigned him Tuesday morning, and he was taken to Greene County jail on $100,000 bond. His preliminary hearing before Watson is scheduled for 11:45 a.m. Jan. 13.

He is also awaiting trial on charges of unlawful restraint, aggravated assault, simple assault and harassment following a June 7 incident in which police said he beat a woman, knocking her unconscious inside a locked room in his home. Barnhart said the victim in that case is not the same woman involved in the most recent accusation.

Nakonechni was also charged last year with animal cruelty for allegedly stabbing a woman’s Boston terrier Sept. 17 at her Springhill Township home.