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I was in a DV situation, and the daughter saying it was like he was possessed is completely accurate. You can be arguing back and forth with someone but you will know the SECOND it is about to get violent because their eyes go dark and it is so scary.

I don't think it's fair how they waited 8 years to start a trial and expected her to recall every tiny detail such as how long he choked her. 🙄

The way she presented herself on the stand seems pretty honest to me. She didn't try to over-dramatise things, or present herself as a perfect person. It's disappointing that the jury didn't understand that imperfect people can be victims too, it doesn't make them "as bad as each other". And it should be obvious that abuse brings out the worst in anyone.

The most adult and well spoken person in this entire episode...was a child. She seems to be an amazing child who will do great things.

There’s always two sides to every story, but the fact that the prosecutors try to paint him as an innocent victim is completely laughable to me.

It’s so sad to hear this child was dragged through all these toxic relationships when she deserved at least one adult who prioritized her well-being and stability.

That young girl is staggeringly grounded and well spoken. Huge respect, she'll make a brilliant psychologist.

As someone who was raised in an abusive household, I never felt like I had a choice in the abuse. Due to this lack of control I often would say nasty insulting things to my father because it was my ONLY way of feeling some sort of empowerment/control. I was always terrified of my father while doing this but also had a feeling of “what’s the worst that could happen?” Watching this blew my mind. The fact so many people don’t have empathy for Stephanie and what she went through is heartbreaking. Just insane

It’s amazing how certain families cannot accept that their child is capable of violence & abuse.

It’s amazing how some young kids turn to be so smart and well spoken out of a broken family, well done to this young lady.

I was abused for the eight years I was married. There was only one time when there was any visible marking. He threw a heavy vase at me, splitting my lip open. I had stitches to close a one inch vertical complete open tear in my lip. My husband was a university professor and people teased me that he had done it. At the hospital, and to everyone who tried to get me to say that my husband had done it, I said I fell down the stairs. I didn't want anyone to know that my husband would hurt me. I was ashamed of that. It took a long time to heal the emotional scars, including the teasing from people at the university.

That daughter is an AMAZING YOUNG WOMAN!! shows courage, dignity and she is getting a degree to " show her mom" when she gets out of prison. I mean she could Be a bitter self pitying depressed person but I'm just amazed at how she is handling everything

Her friend described what it's like to be in a violent relationship more accurately than I've ever heard.

Two adults who acted like toddlers, and a daughter who has more brains than the two of them put together. Super sad.

Neither of them were innocent in this, it was a tragic outcome of a toxic relationship. Andrews family has to come to terms he was just as much as an abuser as Stephanie was. They were not good together. She had bruises on her. Stephanie had a foul mouth and vindictive behavior to hurt him. Her daughter is the one who suffered in this. Somehow this beautiful young lady is thriving in life to educate others and help others who go through these situations. That's what you call strong. Good Job Miss Lady.....

Not every instance of domestic violence is one sided... That doesn't mean she wasn't acting in self defense. It doesn't mean she didn't fear for her life. Not every victim of domestic violence doesn't also get angry and doesn't also fight back. I'm sick of people deciding that if someone doesn't fit in their perfect little box of what a victim is that must mean they're lying.

I work in the criminal justice system. Domestic violence cases are a major part of my caseload. I’ve worked on hundreds and hundreds of DV cases. A few things that I’d like to pass along: -If your significant other uses physical force, violence, or emotional abuse against you, GET HELP NOW. Do not wait. It will not get better. You cannot fix the person. The abuse will only get worse. I have seen it time and time again. You may think your situation is unique, and somehow the other person will learn or get better. Trust me, it will only get worse. -If you are in a new relationship, do not move in with the person right away….especially if you have children. Get to know the person. Give it some time. When people move in together after only dating for a few weeks or months, it rarely (if ever) ends well.

I like how it's a story of 2 adults but they prioritised the child in the video title because she's the silent victim in all of this thanks to the both of them. It's saddening but also relieving when you see what an intelligent young lady she's become instead of what all this could have turned her into.

So she brought a knife to a gunfight against a man much bigger and stronger and emerged victorious with just a bruise. These jurors smh

It was a toxic relationship. He beat her, she pushed his buttons. For her to lash out is no surprise. She was a dancer who NEEDED to know how to defend herself. I’m shocked they didn’t interview HIS former gfs.

This is why i didn’t date when my kid’s dad left. Didn’t date until my kid TOLD me too around age 17-ish after asking me why I never had a boyfriend. I told my kid that there was too much risk to her if I dated. Not just this type of stuff, but also abandonment issues for her if it didn’t work out 1, 2, 3… who knows how many relationships over those 14 years. It’s not worth it. She is now 21. I don’t regret my decision.

Despite all of this happening the daughter truly turned out to be a wonderful, intelligent , and compassionate young lady. I hope nothing but the absolute best for her future, she's gonna accomplish her dreams and more. Growing up in a household where there's domestic violence is insanely traumatic.

I can see where she's coming from. It is hard to get out of an abusive relationship. I've been in two of them, and my first one my ex-husband was so abusive that he gave me a brain injury and now I have uncontrollable seizures and can't drive anymore. My second abusive relationship my ex-boyfriend would put a loaded gun to my head every time I would threaten to leave him, and one time he even pulled the trigger and luckily the gun jammed. With him I only was able to get out of the relationship because he got arrested on another unrelated felony, and while he was in jail I wrote him a letter telling him we were through and I got a restraining order against him so when he got out that he couldn't come near me or my son. I'm so glad I haven't seen him again. So I can relate to how she feels. It's hard.

Andrew was an abuser…I can’t believe his sister and mom are defending him?! I’m sure his dad abused him also. So it’s basically his families fault he was abusive.

You can tell the woman questioning her has never been abused. You can totally be in fear of your abuser and fight back. Sometimes you don’t because you know you will get badly hurt but when it’s happening all the time, you snap and hit back, even though it usually doesn’t do anything.

Did anyone else think Angelina was going to play more of a part based on the title?

I don’t understand.. she got out.. she got away.. she got engaged to another guy. He broke it off because apparently she was abusive to him. So she was single again.. free of any men. But chose to go back to Andy.. I don’t get that.

What a great outlook the daughter has, her mother did a great job raising her! Your mom is proud of you already and will continue too! Keep up the great work, keep your head in ur books and stay out of trouble so you and your mother can reunite. I know its hard but you have a good head on your shoulders. Im proud of you and the career path you are taking is a great one!! I wish we can have an update when your .om and you reunited.

I’m not finish watching but when people say why didn’t you go to the police. For why? Historically they don’t help UNTIL someone is dead.

Can't help but marvel at what a good kid the daughter turned out to be.

I agree with the juror who said they were in a toxic relationship & a vicious cycle of abuse that neither one of them knew how to stop. That's what's so tragic.

One thing i noticed about all abusers is that they disable their victims money flow. Make them quit their jobs, so they can take away the financial independence of their partner and make it where they become dependent on them.

For those of you who don't know: Worcester, MA is not a nice place to live. It's easy to get wrapped up in wrongdoings and crime, so I commend the daughter for become so well spoken. I commend her for keeping her head on straight through all of this tragedy in a city where it's hard to look out towards anything else.

His family is delusional if they think he wasn't equally toxic and abusive. He wasn't an angel and he was an EQUAL contributor to that toxic relationship.

When they said she sent him a photo of herself performing....on the other man, I was over it. Their whole situation oozed toxicity.The jurors did a great job on this one when they recognized that BOTH people were abusers and used different tools of abuse as their specialty. People often make the mistake of thinking domestic violence has to be always be a One Victim situation and that the woman is always the victim. As the jurors detected, they were both monsters.

That lil girl is so BRAINWASHED by her Mom it's sad.

I grew up watching my mother get beat...the guy put her down all the time. It is very hard to walk away...I seen her with a gun up to her head. Thank God it wasn't loaded. I didn't know that...we would call the cops nothing ever happened. He was horrible to myself and my brothers...till this day it still messes with me. She finally left and went straight into another bad relationship. I broke the cycle...my kids come first always.

In the middle of watching this and as much as I believe he was abusing her. I believe it was mutual abusing. It was a toxic relationship that turned tragic.

How the Word of God can change the hearts...but many chose not to..

Andrew's family is a troupe of drama queens. Things went bad... isht happens. And I don't think Stephanie is to blame, not entirely. Clearly they both had issues, and the result wasn't good.

Her friend described the reason a lot of people stay in domestic violence situations very eloquently very on point.

I would be proud to have a daughter like this young lady. Very brave and genuine.

The daughter is amazing. She will do great in the future to help other's who have been in the same situation.

Not a plan,but an impulsive rage of temper, mix with violence. All I see in her is her acting drama.

Spoiler alert: Angelina didn't see much of anything

It's sad when families don't think their family members can be and are abusers. I think they both were wrong. He did not deserve to die, but his family is naive.

She is a good actress!!

That child emotionally handled that with the utmost maturity. She's a strong one.

If the daughter witnessed the abuse, why did she not testify? This whole episode is entitled "What Angelina Saw" and I have no idea what she saw after watching this.

„Your brain is like scrambled eggs“ is the most accurate description of DV situations, I have ever heard! Please, leave! They won’t change! Trust me❤

The mother's behavior during the interrogation is rather histrionic and bizarre, even for the circumstances.

"I know I look psycho." That's an understatement

The mother hardly mentioned her own daughter. Women who put boyfriends before their children is just sad

I feel so sorry for this girl who witnessed so much violence. God bless her today and in her future.🙏

Such a wonderful daughter with a good head on her shoulders after living through that. So glad she didn't fall into her mothers footsteps with career choices.

If I had only seen the interrogation I’d say she was guilty however after watching the whole thing I feel she was treated wrongly by the court. Should she walk free with no repercussions ? Probably not. But she has to live with what happened for the rest of her life. And the prosecution saying it was pre-meditated is absolutely ridiculous. They totally discounted the nature of domestic violence and his family are the same. The daughter seems to have a stature about her and a drive that a mother can be proud of. Wishing her the best of everything life has to offer

Amazing how only because they lost their child she’s the bad one, yet they had nothing to say about his abusive behavior. It’s horrible that some died, it’s worse when you even in death enable and ok with him beating on a woman. Her having a “mouth” or “attitude” isn’t an excuse to be hit, His parents want to lay blame however they didn’t live there, but Angelina did. I believe her.

The daughter is an amazing little lady! She will be a great forensic psychologist, she's been through so much and yet so strong.

The daughter seems the most balanced and articulate of all parties involved. I think she’s correct about Andy’s family inability to see his part in this situation. Parents and siblings rarely know as much as they believe they do.

Angelina is a lovely girl, she seems to have kept such a childlike innocence, I hope she has a wonderful future life xx

She said he pulled a gun on her but no one mentions if a gun was found on the scene or not. Would've been a nice piece of information to have.

Despite all the odds, Angelina has come through these traumatic and toxic experiences extremely well. She obviously loves her mother...l wish her every success.

I for one had a real hard time believing she wasn’t faking in the initial video of her asking if he was dead or not. It seemed way to over dramatized with a lack of real emotion.

I think the boyfriend inadvertantly stabbed him self in the neck when he headbutt her while she was holding the knife up. He was being a badass and in a rage which caused him to miscalculate the knife in her hand. As he headbutt her that caused her stab motion. They were both aggressive and she had pulled knives on people to many times in the past. I think 8 years is appropriate. My opinion, His death was his fault.

Ladies… this story should be the example of why you should NEVER quit your job for a man. It’s a control tactic

Angelina summed it up perfectly at the end. They both needed help.

I hope Angelina comes to terms wih the reality of her mother's culpability. Otherwise, I don't know how she can achieve professional acumen in the field of forensic psychology.

That young lady is going to be something!! She has an incredible insight and sense of survivorship! So beautiful to witness! 🤍🤍🤍🙌🙏🏼

Regardless whether she did it on purpose or she did it in self defence, folk tend to forget how domestic violence can force a man/woman to live on edge constantly, the fear they live through, their life constantly being in danger. Try and escape when you can, no relationship is ever worth this sort of toxic “love”. If you have children these events stays with them forever, find a way to escape with your kids. Domestic violence puts the victim in constant fear, you’re on edge all the time, your life feels in danger, and honestly whether it was on purpose or not with stabbing his neck I don’t see this relationship ending any other way because of how violent it was, the only way it was ending was one of them dying. My parents were violent towards each other, he once dragged her up the stairs, tried to throw large objects at her, tried pushing her down the stairs as I was running in front of her, I remember hiding under the stairs with my dogs and an axe in case I needed to protect myself. That sort of violence stays with you forever, so if you’re staying together “for the kids”? Just leave, because it messes up the kids, we remember the violent incidents as clear as day. I’d rather be poor AF and safe than having a roof over my head and parents that violently beat each other. This sort of violence stays with the kids, my brother turned out to be violent when growing up, my mother encouraged his violence towards me so I ended up in hospital with strangulation marks around my neck and head concussions, the violence we witnessed as kids was so normalised that me being treated that way was “normal” where I escaped just before 19 with a young persons charity. Sometimes the violence witnessed as kids ends up repeating itself in an abusive cycle where the kids adopt the same behaviours.

It's nice to see all the comments praising and complimenting the daughter. Thank goodness she turned out to be so stable and well spoken. Amazing how resilient some people can be.

They're both crazy and toxic but I cannot believe how his family stood there and completely disregarded his abusive behavior. I have family members that are abusive and I have completely cut them off and would testify against them in a heartbeat.

Reading the comment section, for some reason, still surprises me on women's double standards. Had the rolls been reversed, nearly every one of them would sing a different tune.

Y’all really brought that girl back to the scene of the crime and asked her to retell what she saw when she was a child?! How traumatic for no reason-I didn’t need to see her tell the story at the scene to understand what happened. How macabre…as if she hasn’t been through enough. This is why people have a problem with the true crime genre.

The only person I have sympathy for is the daughter. She had a sick relationship with a man, brought that violence into her own home and let her child marinate in their toxicity for years. What is not being said in this situation is what is the loudest to me.

My heart literally aches for this amazing daughters strength and love.❤

To the daughter. If you ever read this. Keep going. Keep studying. And you will be with your mom again soon one day. ❤️

Dispite the mothers' lifestyle it seems she raised a very good daughter.

Such a sweet and well-spoken girl, it’s a shame she had such a traumatic upbringing

I hope this woman receives some help..she isn't happy on her own..leaving one man for another.....not a good sign..then returning to the abusive man with her daughter!!!!

DV is so scary and difficult to escape. Like I used to have these tendencies with my ex partner (specially when I drank) where I would start fights for no reason. Only thing is I recognized that in myself and actively tried to better myself. I quit drinking and made an effort to communicate. It was hard and still is, but I rarely get angry now and can diffuse situations before it turns into a fight. Therapy helped a lot. It is scary how many people aren't aware of themselves enough to change. And then it ends like in this case.

I can relate to the knife confrontation because it happened to me, and my ex got injured in the process thank God he didn’t die but nobody believed me when I explained how bad he provoked me and it got so bad that I picked up a knife. Picking up a knife was just to scare him away and get him to leave me alone but at the police station it was misinterpreted as a motive to harm and nobody spoke about how bad the situation was that got us there in the first place. My advise to people going through any form of domestic violence is to get up and leave no matter how hard it gets! Because if you don’t nobody will believe how much you’ve suffered and you will just be sent to jail for nothing! I got Lucky but you might not!

Why people expect a victim to be 24 hrs timid and hiding under the rock because of their fear? Because she fought back doesn’t mean she never been abused.. The guy’s family seem to think it’s ok for their son/brother to beat up a woman but not ok for a victim to fight back. It was a toxic relationship it was just a matter of whom would get hurt more, if they think she is evil then the same applies to him too. Much respect to the daughter, she turns out so well.

Hated how she was made to look like the bad guy. People that get abuse has a breaking point and she reached hers. She's still a victim in all of this and it's just not fair how she was made to look like the bad guy, she just reached the point where she just couldn't handle it anymore.

She was most likely getting abused.....but she was also abusing him.It was a toxic relationship that was never gonna end well no matter what.Nothing that starts in a strip club is ever gonna be a fairy tale sorry guys...

As a woman who has been in 2 IPV relationships, you can have reactive violence, in which the victim lashes out at their abuser, most commonly done intentionally by the abuser so they can say, "you're so abusive, look how crazy you're acting." I didn't hear any mention of this at all in this case.

She is a great mom! I always believe a good mom can be not evil. Super proud of Angelina!

Andrew was also as much to blame for this

Unless someone has been in a domestic violence situation, you truly can't relate. I believe the daughter hit the nail on the head stating that he became a completely different person, like he was possessed. He was baby girl. You know it when you see it and its terrifying.

2 abusive people who can't control their temper and enter a relationship and only one of them survives. When her "nice guy" ex said she tried to stab him multiple times, it's hard to see her as a total innocent.

I had a friend that was in an abusive relationship. The 1 and only time she fought back, she was the one arrested.

This is why women need an education beyond how high school and a real career. We have to take care of ourselves in order to have healthy relationships and stable relationships. Stephanie was so needy that she was in denial about the man she thought she loved. If you don't respect yourself, you can't expect respect from others.

They definitely brought out the worst in each other. Love to the daughter.

It's a shame how the family of abusive individuals never see that their loved one was capable of violence. Two toxic lovers ended their relationship with violence. The families need to deal with the toxicity while their loved one is still living. He didn't have to die. He chose that life, though.

She was afraid of him, so she used to insult him and send him pornographic pictures of her relationships😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

This is so self-defense she did to protect herself and her daughter

So his parents, who raised an aggressive possessive bully, wanted her to be put behind bars?? The mind boggles

Heart wrenching 💔I pray her daughter lives a fulfilling and successful life. 😢❤️✨

His family not willing to accept the possibility that their own son/brother is probably just as guilty and may have contributed to his own death gives me THE biggest eye roll…😒🙄🙄🙄🙄 The daughter is wiser than all these adults!

What a remarkable child Angelina, she is far more mature than many adults out there.I have lived through my childhood witnessing domestic violence and I have learned that it can either make you strong and honourable or destroy you and condemn you to addiction and low self-esteem.Angelina is growing into a smart young girl with a bright future ahead and I am sure she will make many positive contributions along her journey