Dec
14thEvery F–ing Day of My Life Premiers on HBO
EVERY F—ING DAY OF MY LIFE records one woman’s final days of freedom as she prepares to be incarcerated for manslaughter in the death of her abusive husband when the documentary airs tonight, exclusively on HBO.
From Digital Communications:
In the early-morning hours of May 1, 2005, Wendy Maldonado, a mother of four in Grant Pass, Oregon, called 911 in hysterics. “I just killed my husband,” she confessed, adding, “I just want my kids to be safe.” When the operator asked how long her husband had abused her, Maldonado replied, “EVERY F—ING DAY OF MY LIFE.”
EVERY F—ING DAY OF MY LIFE follows Maldonado and her family in the days before she begins serving a ten-year sentence for the crime. Alternately shocking and heartbreaking, the film tells the story of one woman’s fateful decision to make a new life for her and her children at any cost, even her own freedom.
The film records Wendy’s final days of freedom as her mother, sisters and friends surround and support her, and help prepare sons Joshua, Marshall and Tyler for life without their mother. Drawing on intimate family footage, the documentary paints a revealing portrait of the seemingly desperate conditions that drove Wendy and son Randy to plead guilty to manslaughter in connection with the killing of Aaron Maldonado.
Through startling anecdotes from family members and neighbors, crime scene photos, early home-video footage and interviews with Wendy and Randy (who is already incarcerated), EVERY F—ING DAY OF MY LIFE sheds light on what it may have been like to live in the turbulent Maldonado home before the crime. Both Wendy and Randy express their deepest desire to do whatever is needed to protect the other boys. In one interview, Wendy likens her situation to chewing “a hole in a cage so you could all get out,” going on to say, “All I did was, like, chew off my leg ‘cause it was caught in a bear trap and run…get outta there with all the kids.”
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As lawyers could you help this family? Here is a letter for others to forward to politicians to help this family.
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Mr. Obama
I have sent a letter requesting action to Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon concerning the recent incarceration of Wendy and Randy Maldonado. This story was on HBO recently and documented the years of domestic violence and abuse on a family.
I am asking you to become involved because an injustice has taken place only because of the laws that are in place today.
Wendy Maldonado suffered tremendous emotional, physical and pshycological abuse in her marriage. This abuse also became familiar to each of the children in the household. Police were called and as is in domestic cases she was expected to turn the police away or receive another beating by her husband Aaron. Neighbors called the police and anticipated the tragedy that took place. The question is why the police and their visits did not.
Aaron Maldonada repeatedly told his wife he would kill her. He designed a “killing spot” for her in a field. He wrote a song for her that he would kill her and how. He knocked out her teeth, broke broom handles over her back and smashed her head into walls regularly. He then started to beat the children and conditioned them to not react when he hit them or else he would impose a more lethal beating.
It is time to review the laws concerning domestic abuse. In a country where possession of marijuana can land you 10 years in jail, or confiscate your home or judge you as a co-conspirator, with very little evidence, the laws concerning abused woman are archaic and shallow.
The judge admitted that the abuse was so severe that he could not fathom how the family got along. However, he stated that he was bound to impose sentences to both Wendy and Randy according to how the law read.
Laws can become outdated and this area of law needs overhauling. The fact is America protects its grizzly bears and cubs to a far more ethical standard than our own woman and children.
Wendy Maldonado and her son Randy do not belong in jail. Why was this tragedy not concluded as self defense of a family? How much more vivid evidence do we need to show the quotidian abuse. It is wrong to incarcerate these victims and it is wrong to abide to a law that does not consider the greater perimeters of today’s sociometry.
Please review their sentences after you review the law.
Rena Mlodecki
I started a Facebook group after viewing this documentary and we all write letters/emails to the governor constantly. I am in touch with The Maldonado family’s advocate (Reb Zwart) and she sends me info to post on the page for all to read. Wendy knows we are all out here trying to raise awareness about this HUGE injustice! Check out the page – join – write!