https://www.wmur.com/article/harmony...2021/38646788#
Manchester police are seeking tips from the public about the disappearance of a girl not seen in more than two years.
Harmony Montgomery, 7, was last seen in a home in Manchester in October 2019, when she was 5, police said.
Last edited by raisedbywolves; 11-14-2022 at 07:26 AM.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/missin...-saw-her-alive
Uncle of Missing Girl Says Family Feuded the Last Time He Saw Her Alive
The last time that Kevin Montgomery says he saw his great niece, Harmony, she ?looked like a scared puppy.?
The terrified look on the then-5-year-old?s face appeared during a contentious situation at the Manchester, New Hampshire house Montgomery shared with several family members, including Harmony and her parents. The October 2019 incident, which Montgomery said included him trying to push through the front door when he wasn?t allowed in, resulted in a call to the police and a divide in the family.
Montgomery says the incident prompted his nephew, Harmony?s father, to stop all communication with a slew of other family members, including blocking some of them on social media.
?Then the pandemic hit, and I just assumed Harmony and that side of the family was ok. I was worried, of course, but assumed everything was ok because I had not heard anything,? Montgomery, 43, told The Daily Beast on Monday.
But New Hampshire authorities say that Harmony hasn?t been seen since October 2019?and was only reported missing last week. On Dec. 31, the Manchester Police Department put out a ?missing child? alert after learning of her years-long disappearance, and launched an investigation to find the 4-foot-tall girl who should be wearing glasses and is blind in her right eye.
The Manchester Mayor?s chief of staff Lauren Smith told The Daily Beast that the office received an email last week ?primarily regarding concerns with the New Hampshire Division for Children, Youth and Families (DCYF)? in connection to Harmony. The email, which Smith admitted ?was slightly vague on details,? was ultimately forwarded to the Manchester Police Department.
?For us to have a two-year delay, that is extremely concerning," Police Chief Allen Aldenberg said on Friday while announcing an investigation into Harmony?s disappearance. ?That's not something that happens to us on a regular basis. It doesn't happen every day.?
Since the New Year?s Eve missing child alert, Aldenberg said that his department has been working ?non-stop? to find Harmony alongside DCYF and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. On Sunday, investigators also searched a property on Gilford Street that once belonged to a member of the Montgomery family. City assessor records indicate the home was sold in 2020.
By Monday, authorities announced a combined $12,500 reward for information about Harmony?s whereabouts, as well as a 24-hour tip line for the case that is still being investigated as a missing person?s case.
?I am in rescue mode right now. This is not a recovery. All efforts are focused on that Harmony is alive?until somebody points to me that proves that she is not. We have to operate under the assumption that she is alive,? Aldenberg said during an impassioned speech during a press conference. ?Help us find this little girl. Someone knows something. Do what is right and call in. I cannot emphasize this enough. Someone out there knows something."
The chief, who said that 35 investigators are on the case, added Monday that ?many? of Harmony?s family members have also been interviewed in an attempt to fill in the blanks as to what happened over the last two years. Aldenberg declined to comment on details of those conversations but noted that nobody has been officially cleared in the investigation.
Harmony?s mother, Crys Renee Sorey, also took to Facebook to plead for information to help solve the mysterious case. Another woman, who identified herself as Harmony's older cousin, wrote on social media that the 7-year-old was ?known to be in the custody of her father.?
?HARMONY MOMMYS COMING FOR YOU I PROMISE & I WILL NEVER LET YOU GO!!!! HANG ON BABY!!!!? Sorey wrote in her post alongside photos of the blond-haired girl.
Police have not released any information about Harmony?s parents, and have not confirmed the claim that Harmony had been in her father's custody. Montgomery, however, told The Daily Beast that Sorey met with authorities today for a ?polygraph and DNA test.? Sorey did not respond to a request for comment.
Harmony?s great uncle admits he has accepted the grim reality that he may ?never see her alive again,? and says he had been worried about the child?s safety for years.
Montgomery told The Daily Beast that he called DCYF on Harmony?s behalf in July 2019 after he saw that she had a black eye?but, he says, nothing happened. Three months later, on Oct. 19, 2019, he says he called the police to the house where his nephew, Harmony?s father, and other family members lived.
During that ?intense? and chaotic situation?the last time, he says, that he saw his great niece?Harmony ?was quiet, she wasn?t saying much.?
?She looked scared,? Montgomery added.
The Manchester Police Department declined The Daily Beast?s request for comment but Aldenberg has previously said Harmony was last seen at a home in the city after police responded to an October 2019 service call. A spokesperson for DHHS declined to comment on Montgomery?s claim that he had flagged the child?s case for the agency, stating that ?state and federal law requires us to protect the confidentiality of children and families served by and individuals engaged with the Division for Children, Youth and Families.?
Several neighbors also told WMUR they had previously complained to city officials about the conditions of the house Harmony was last seen in. At the time, however, they were told nothing could be done.
?I thought she was a nice, quiet little girl,? one neighbor told the outlet. ?It's kind of sad because no kid deserves that. Nobody does.?
Aldenberg on Monday declined to go into details into the investigation, but previously noted that the last time Harmony was enrolled in school was in Massachusetts. He added that the case is a priority for the department and they are ?doing everything in their power? to figure out the timeline of Harmony?s last two years.
?I cannot emphasize enough how important any and all tips are,? the chief added. ?Knowing where she was can help us narrow down where she is now.?
And while Montgomery says he doesn?t know what happened to Harmony, or who ultimately called the police to report her missing, he believes the mystery behind his great-niece?s disappearance could have been avoided if authorities had taken his pleas seriously.
?We just want to know the truth,? Montgomery added. ?We have been in contact with the Manchester Police Department and we will do whatever it takes to get answers.?
I don't understand having these departments in place when they don't even do their job. She had been reported to child services because of a black eye and the condition of the house had been reported as well.
IF THEY HAD ACTUALLY GOTTEN OFF THEIR ASSES AND DONE THEIR FUCKING JOB.. .
This girl wouldn't likely not be missing (dead) right now.
Originally Posted by Nic B
You can take those Fleets and shove them up your ass
And this kind of story used to happen every once in a while, but now we are seeing it every week.
Because of the pandemic, it's made it easier to hide abuse
And this kind of story used to happen every once in a while, but now we are seeing it every week.
You can take those Fleets and shove them up your ass
That's so fucked up.
Happy Birthday! I hid a dead body in your backyard to celebrate. Good luck finding it under the cement. You can only use a stick to look for it.
Do you think they could have sold that little girl?
You are talking to a woman who has laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom and chuckled at catastrophe.
...Collector of Chairs. Reader of Books. Hater of Nutmeg...
Nah, they killed her.
Happy Birthday! I hid a dead body in your backyard to celebrate. Good luck finding it under the cement. You can only use a stick to look for it.
It is sickening how many children are not prioritized and are failed by the systems that are in place to keep them safe.
She should have stayed in foster care, and never ever gone back to the dad. I know of a little girl who is in foster care with a good family and im worried this is going to happen to her. Same damn situation.
"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man" -Charles Darwin
I'm not going to sit here and claim that every foster situation is a good one. Sadly, that's not the case. However, with these services they focus much more on parental rights rather than the rights and safety of the children. Thus why people with restraining orders are still allowed visitation (which to me is stupidly insane). The fact of the matter is that if these departments actually DID THEIR FUCKING JOB, they would be ensuring that the children were safe whether that be in the custody of their parents OR in foster care.
I'm not saying that it's an easy job, by any means, but if you signed up for it.... DO IT RIGHT.
You can take those Fleets and shove them up your ass
Sadly the foster care place my good friend has a little girl from is focused on reunification of the parents with the child. The main caseworker knows the parents are garbage and is putting the girls safety first...but for how long...Im not sure. Mom has completed rehab and is clean and supposedly mentally healthy, but the judge signed a continuance and the little girl is staying with my friend for the next 6 months. The judge has 1 more continuance then has to make a decision.
The dad doesnt do drugs but is violent as hell and SPANKED the little girl when she was 2 months old, because she was crying. But the bio mom wont tell the caseworker that. Hes dangerous, has a short record even though he beat the bio mom almost to death (bc she didnt press charges). The are actually considering giving the little girl to him bc hes clean, has a job and transportation. The bar is that low. ugh.
"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man" -Charles Darwin
I don't understand what the push to reunite foster children with terrible bio families is. I think this is why we so so many kids get harmed. I'm sorry that the child's well being isn't what is being considered.
Exactly this. Like I said. They focus more on the parental rights than the rights and the safety of the kids. It's backwards.
You can take those Fleets and shove them up your ass
It's the pendulum. Not terribly long ago (early to mid 20th century) if the authorities became aware of a poor family, a family of color, or otherwise that messed up in some way, even if just by being poor... they'd snatch those children up and place them in a home. People both "official" and independent would coerce young single women to turn over their kids, "for their own good". If a woman got in trouble with the law, her kids were as good as gone and there was no way she was getting them back. And doG forbid you commit the crime of parenting while native. Your kids would be packed off to a school to be de-natived and might well be adopted away from you. So in response to some of the egregious crimes against parents and children, laws were written, protections put in place, yada yada and now the family of origin is so important that kids don't get protected when they should be. Now before the "child protection" situation got so extreme in the early/mid 20th century it was just the opposite. Parents, especially Fathers, owned their kids and were welcome to beat them bloody if they liked.
Had they not previously searched the apartment?
I was surprised too. It seems like that would have been the first place they looked.
I'm sad to say that I'm not surprised by this news. I wish it wasn't the case and I hoped it wouldn't be, but I already knew and I think we all did.
Are they going to hold CPS responsible at all? If they had done their job, she might still be alive today.
Thank you for the update, Music
You can take those Fleets and shove them up your ass
I hope so, but I doubt it.I'm sad to say that I'm not surprised by this news. I wish it wasn't the case and I hoped it wouldn't be, but I already knew and I think we all did.
Are they going to hold CPS responsible at all? If they had done their job, she might still be alive today.
Thank you for the update, Music
You're very welcome.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/24/us/ha...rge/index.html
Dad arrested second degree murder
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ing-death.html
Newly-unsealed affidavit accuses missing five year-old Harmony Montgomery's father of beating her to death, then stuffing youngster's remains in duffel bag
Adam Montgomery, 33, is alleged to have punched his daughter Harmony, 5, to death in the back of his car according to an unsealed affidavit
According to his estranged wife Kayla Montgomery, 32, he then stuffed her body into a duffel bag and transported the remains over the next three months
Harmony disappeared in late 2019 and has not been seen since, with officers recently searching wetlands
A newly unsealed affidavit has accused the father of missing girl Harmony Montgomery of beating her to death before stuffing her remains into a duffel bag.
Adam Montgomery was indicted last year on murder charges over the disappearance of his daughter, five-year-old Harmony who vanished in 2019.
Earlier today, a 48-page affidavit was released based on interviews with Montgomery's estranged wife Kayla which has alleged that he stuffed his daughters body into a bag after beating her to death.
Kayla , 32, agreed to cooperate with prosecutors after reaching a plea deal in a separate perjury case.
Investigators said they believe the girl was fatally beaten by Montgomery after she had a toileting accident in a his car on Dec. 7, 2019.
According to the affidavit, Kayla told police that Montgomery killed Harmony on Dec. 7, 2019, while the family lived in their car.
Kayla, who was Harmony's stepmother, said he was driving to a fast food restaurant when he turned around and repeatedly punched Harmony in the face and head because he was angry that she was having bathroom accidents in the car.
Kayla claims Montgomery then told her: 'I think I really hurt her this time. I think I did something.'
Kayla Montgomery told police that Harmony began making a moaning noise for about five minutes and then stopped.
The affidavit says later that day, the two realized Harmony was dead and put her body in a duffel bag.
For the next three months, investigators allege, Montgomery moved the body from container to container and place to place.
According to his wife, the locations included the trunk of a friend's car, a cooler in the hallway of his mother-in-law's apartment building, the ceiling vent of a homeless shelter and an apartment freezer.
At one point, the remains were kept in a tote bag from a hospital maternity ward, and Kayla said she placed it in between her own young children in a stroller and brought it to her husband's workplace.
An employee at the now-closed restaurant told police he saw it there but never questioned Montgomery 'since he knew he had children.'
Investigators allege that Montgomery disposed of the body in early March 2020 using a rented moving truck.
Toll data shows the truck in question crossed the Tobin Bridge in Boston multiple times, but the affidavit has no other location information to indicate the location of Harmony's body. In April, police searched a marshy area in Revere, Massachusetts.
Kayla Montgomery was sentenced in November to at least 18 months in prison.
She had pleaded guilty to charges that she lied to a grand jury about working at a doughnut shop on Nov. 30, 2019, the day she said she last saw Harmony.
As part of that plea deal, she agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, who dropped charges that she lied to state health officials about having the child in her care in order to collect welfare benefits and that she received stolen firearms.
The young girl, who was blind in one eye, was in her father's care at the time of her disappearance after her mother, Crystal Sorey, lost custody in July 2018 due to substance abuse.
The search for Harmony's body continues with pictures from the last known residence of Harmony being stormed by the FBI who were seen hauling out evidence, including a fridge, from the apartment.
Cops had then been seen removing evidence, including a full-sized refrigerator, from the Manchester home, as well as a plethora of other items that were covered up in various packaging.
Earlier this year, officers began searching wetlands in Revere for the body of Harmony, that has yet to be recovered.
?Later that day, they realized she was dead?? So how long did she lay in agony and how long did she lay dead? Did she lay dead in the car or did they bring her in?
My guess is they knew she died when the moaning stopped. And they just ignored her for the rest of the day. Then the dad put her in a duffel bag and moved her around a lot.
These low lifes dont have the patience to deal with children. They have an accident and are beaten to death. Would have been better off in foster care.
Last edited by Angiebla; 06-20-2023 at 06:14 PM.
"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man" -Charles Darwin
Why the hell did they cart this kid's body around like it was on tour?
Also, this was because she had an accident in the car. WTF.
Kayla, who was Harmony's stepmother, said he was driving to a fast food restaurant when he turned around and repeatedly punched Harmony in the face and head because he was angry that she was having bathroom accidents in the car.
You can take those Fleets and shove them up your ass
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