I forgot this one is a rant on our judicial system in Maine...

In Fairfield Maine, a woman was getting a protective order from her husband, she had moved out of their family home at Christmas time with her two sons and moved into her mother's house. Now she is in court, explaining why she needs a protective order and the JUDGE, ordered her in front of her estranged husband to state where she is living with her sons.

She did so with apprehension, but really did not think he would hurt her. Well, two days later after her brother went to work, her "husband" came to the house and shot her in front of their sons then took the boys to his older son's fiance's house. Did the JUDGE not realize that a protective order is for her to feel safe? Or just a word in a case not an actually person? I am very appalled by this action and call all women to write to the State of Maine Judicial system an get some justice for this poor woman.

You will notice they do not name the Judge, why? You made her air her business and it cost her, her life, why not let us know what stupid incompetent Judge did this to her?

Here is the story from the Portland Herald Paper:

FAIRFIELD - Rhonda Reynolds knew that her husband was angry about her decision to leave him, but she never imagined he might resort to violence, her family members said Monday, two days after Reynolds died from gunshot wounds.

Police say Richard Reynolds, 40, shot his estranged wife on Friday, the day after she was forced to say in court where she was moving with their two children.
"She thought he was too much of a coward to do anything," Kempton Wakefield Jr. said of his sister on Monday. "That was a crucial mistake."

Police say Rhonda Reynolds, 37, was shot Friday morning at the home on Bunker Avenue that Wakefield shares with his wife, Debra. She died Saturday morning at a Bangor hospital.
Rhonda Reynolds had moved in with the Wakefields on Thursday with her two sons, Jacob, 6, and Matthew, 4, and planned to file for divorce on Friday, her brother said.
"She was going to stay here a few months until she got back on her feet," he said.

On Friday morning, after the Wakefields left for work, Richard Reynolds went to the house with a gun and shot his wife in the presence of their sons, according to police.
He then drove the children to Waterville and dropped them off at his older son's fiancÈe's house, not a day-care center, as previously reported, according to the Wakefields.
The Wakefields, interviewed at their home on Monday night, said Rhonda Reynolds filed for a protection-from-abuse order against her husband of seven years after he allegedly assaulted her before Christmas.

She left their home at 18 Nelson St. in Waterville after the incident, stayed at a Family Violence Project location and then moved in with her grandmother in Fairfield.
She and the children stayed there until they went to the Wakefields' home on Thursday.
When they saw her on Thursday night, she was happy, Kempton Wakefield said.
"Her life was her children," he said. "You never saw her not smiling when she was around her children. She absolutely adored them."

The couple said that what bothers them most is that the protection-from-abuse order did not protect Rhonda Reynolds. In fact, they said, she was told to say out loud in court where she was going to be living -- Bunker Avenue. The next morning, her husband allegedly went there and shot her.

"I think that's something that should be looked into," Kempton Wakefield said.
"Rhonda was upset that it was revealed in court where she was going to be living,' he said, "even though she tried to comfort herself and us by saying she didn't think he would hurt her."
Some time before Christmas, police went to the Reynolds' home and took Richard Reynolds out in handcuffs, according to neighbors, who said guns were removed from the house. Waterville police would not discuss details of that incident on Monday.

Richard Reynolds turned himself in to Waterville police on Friday. He was charged with aggravated attempted murder, a charge that is expected to be upgraded to murder as he makes his first court appearance, today in Skowhegan.

"I don't want to be there," Kempton Wakefield said. "I wouldn't want to look at the guy."
He said he does not know his brother-in-law very well at all. "We tolerated him because he was Rhonda's husband."
Wakefield said his father, Kempton Wakefield Sr., a former Waterville police dispatcher, plans to be in court.
"He is just devastated by this," he said. "They were like best friends, Rhonda and my dad."

The Wakefields had a picture of Jacob and Matthew on their computer Monday. The photo, taken after the children and their mother arrived at the house on Thursday night, shows the boys lying on the living room floor, laughing and playing with stuffed animals.
Kempton Wakefield said his sister was the youngest of three children. He is 38 and their brother, Michael, of Skowhegan, is 40.
"We were close, growing up," he said.

The three siblings attended Waterville High School, where Rhonda Reynolds graduated in 1988. She went to Nevada after that, working as a blackjack dealer there and at a casino on a riverboat in Mississippi before returning to Maine, he said.

She had an 11-year-old daughter from a previous relationship. The girl lives with her father in Winslow, he said.
Rhonda Reynolds was a waitress for several years, with her longest stint being at Friendly's in Waterville.
She had planned to return to work there but put that on hold recently while she sorted out her domestic troubles, her brother said.

"She was pretty physically fit. She worked out every day, practically," he said.
He and Debra Wakefield, 39, said their nephews are temporarily in state custody and staying with people who specialize in caring for children who have been traumatized.
They said the boys were watching television in the living room when their mother was shot a few feet away, in the doorway to an exercise room the Wakefields had converted into a bedroom for the children and their mother.