"I got tired of looking like my boyfriend beat me," she said.

Each year several hundred American women kill husbands or boyfriends who they say have beaten them.

The calls in a three-hour period that rainy night were intense and desperate: a woman whose boyfriend had been beating her.

'Your boyfriend nearly beat a girl to death in Connecticut,' Jeffrey said.

Her boyfriend beat her so ferociously a couple of months ago that she was forced into the hospital.

Bill was 6 years old when his mother's boyfriend beat her so badly she had to be hospitalized.

They slept through the night, while in the living room their mother's boyfriend beat her senseless and left her for dead.

Through Tim and the pupil's interactions, the latter reveals that his mother's boyfriend has been beating him.

I don't think you'll stand by while your boyfriend beats the hell out of me.

Maidus hadn't cried since the night his mother's current boyfriend beat him almost senseless and he crawled from her door, never to return.