Q: Me and my boyfriend got into a fight and he got in my face and said some very nasty things and hit him.Will I go to jail
My boyfriend was screaming at me in my face while I was holding our 3 month old baby and I kept telling him to back up and get out my face but he wouldn't so I slapped him with my child in my arms. As soon as I did that I did lay my child down in her bed because even after that he still didnt back down and kept screaming at me even more i hit him a couple of other times to try and get him to stop. I've never had to hit anybody like that before and I'm not an aggressive person but in that situation i didnt really know what else to do. He ended up calling the cops out to our house on me and we had to talk to them about it. They didnt arrest me that night. They let me stay home. What will happen to me in this situation?
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