WEYMOUTH, Mass. — Sophia Armstrong knew things were getting bad with her boyfriend last December.
His anger had been rising, so when she heard him yelling on the phone to a relative, she was afraid of what would happen next inside their Weymouth, Massachusetts, apartment. So she quietly grabbed her cellphone and pressed record.
“I was on the futon, and he ripped my shirt off and started kicking me. And next thing you know, the cops are at the door,” she said…