Deceased/Not Found NH - Harmony Montgomery, 7, Manchester, Oct 2019 *reported missing Dec 2021* *REWARD* *Arrest* #2

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rjay said:
I can appreciate that HM’s mother wants to find out who “dropped the ball”. But IMO, it was the parents that “dropped the ball” first. It was the parents who found drugs more important than their daughter. It’s little comfort to know who within DCFS “dropped the ball” when there is a deeper root cause for why HM is missing.

MOO
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And yet we are in the midst of a raging opioid epidemic in this country, and it has caused DCF caseloads to explode. The system was set up because we know parents will fail, and DCF is charged with keeping these vulnerable children safe. They failed. Miserably. We need to know how this happened and make sure it doesn't happen again.
 
Lulu'smom said:
And yet we are in the midst of a raging opioid epidemic in this country, and it has caused DCF caseloads to explode. The system was set up because we know parents will fail, and DCF is charged with keeping these vulnerable children safe. They failed. Miserably. We need to know how this happened and make sure it doesn't happen again.
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BBM
Yes this. Isn't that the whole purpose? But they are so concerned with bio parents and their rights that I think they've forgotten about the CHILDREN.
It's a really messed up system and it keeps leaning further to protect the parents and NOT the children.
In my State, parents are no longer required to do mandatory drug testing and if they refuse, it cannot be held against them.
 
JAN 27, 2022
MA chief justice orders review in Harmony Montgomery case – Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News
The chief justice of Massachusetts’ highest court has ordered a review of the case of a missing New Hampshire girl who was last seen in 2019 at age 5, months after a Massachusetts judge gave custody of the child to her father.

Chief Justice Kimberly Budd pledged in a letter to New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu that the high court would take steps regarding the “heartbreaking situation involving Harmony Montgomery.” Budd’s letter was provided by Sununu’s office Thursday.

“I share your view that we need to learn as much as we can about what happened,” she wrote.

Her letter was in response to one sent by Sununu last week in which he harshly criticized a Massachusetts court for placing Harmony Montgomery with her father and stepmother before the state could complete a study of their home.

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JAN 27, 2022
Newly surfaced photos: Harmony Montgomery at younger age (wmur.com)
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The photos of Harmony Montgomery were sent to WMUR by her mother, Crystal Sorey.
 
Harmony's mother, while not a perfect person, appears to have gotten herself sober, taken steps to rehabilitate herself.

She didn't hand her daughter over to Adam. A court did that.

I am glad she is advocating for HM, without her raising a stink we probably wouldn't even know this little princess was missing. At the end of the day, I don't blame her for what happened. I blame CPS and the court system for dropping the ball that led Harmony to be in Adam's care/custody. Most of all I blame Adam and Kayla for whatever happened to Harmony.

What have you done with Harmony, Adam?
 
MissMalowe said:
Curious to know what everyone's thoughts/feelings are about mom advocating for Harmony now?
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I am thankful for her. She made mistakes and admits them. The courts didn't allow her access, but gave beautiful little Harmony to a father who had drug issues as well as worse criminal background. She tried for a long time to find little Harmony. She isn't like some we have watched in other cases. She didn't come out of the woodwork after Harmony hit the news. She has been there looking and trying to reach her for 2 years and she is the reason little Harmony was discovered missing.
 
Lulu'smom said:
And yet we are in the midst of a raging opioid epidemic in this country, and it has caused DCF caseloads to explode. The system was set up because we know parents will fail, and DCF is charged with keeping these vulnerable children safe. They failed. Miserably. We need to know how this happened and make sure it doesn't happen again.
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Ah yes! You are digging deeper now. Keep asking why. Why is there an opioid epidemic? Ask at least 5 more why’s after that and then maybe you will get close to the true root cause of this epidemic and as a result these helpless victims.

DCF is a safety net for sure and should be staffed, trained, diligent and always overseeing. But the problem will only escalate without addressing the root cause.

But that’s like solving all humanity’s shortcomings. :(
 
What did they do to/ with Harmony- (AM and KM) - those new pics of beautiful Harmony are crushing. Neither of them should be free until they say what they did - they are responsible for her missing and the lack of care/ effort to keep her safe. Moo
 
Harmony Montgomery – The Charley Project

Casefile updated


Details of Disappearance
Harmony was last seen in Manchester, New Hampshire sometime in late 2019. The police were called to her residence on Gilford Street for unspecified reasons in October. On November 27, Harmony and her family were evicted from the Gilford Street home.

Multiple people reported seeing Harmony with her father and stepmothewr in the ensuing days, but between December 6 and December 10, the adults were seen only with their other children, not Harmony. She is believed to have vanished sometime between November 28 and December 10.

Harmony's mother, Crystal "Crys" Renee Sorey, notified police in November 2021 that Harmony was missing. Crys had lost custody of Harmony in 2018 due to substance abuse issues, and after she went into recovery and became sober she tried to contact Harmony. The child had been in foster care with her brother, until she was reunited with her father, Adam Montgomery, in February 2019. (Her brother was adopted by a family later that year, but remains in contact with Crys.)

Crys was able to locate them and she had a video call with Adam around Easter 2019, and saw Harmony in the background, looking "frightened." This is the last time her mother saw her. After that, Adam blocked all contact, and Crys tried to locate her daughter for months without result. She said she had "a gut feeling that something is not right." She said she made repeated calls to authorities about her concerns for Harmony's welfare and had been ignored.

Police were initially unable to locate Adam. He was eventually found in Manchester, living in a car. Harmony wasn't with him and he said he had given her to the care of her mother around Thanksgiving 2019. This wasn't true, however, and Adam soon stopped cooperating with the investigation.

Harmony's uncle, Kevin Montgomery, said he had seen Harmony with a black eye during the summer of 2019 and asked Adam about it. Adam told him he had "bashed her around the apartment" after he left her unattended with her baby half-brother and came back to find her covering the infant's mouth to stop its crying.

Kevin said he had observed other behaviors by Adam that he thought were abusive, such as forcing Harmony to stand in a corner for four hours and telling her to scrub the toilet with her toothbrush. He said the family had made multiple reports to New Hampshire's Division of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) and Adam cut off contact with them because of this.

In January 2022, Adam was arrested and charged with felony second-degree assault for abusing Harmony in the summer of 2019, and misdemeanor charges of interference with custody and endangering the welfare of a child for failing to report his daughter missing. He has a history of violent behavior and in was sentenced to 18 months in prison after shooting a man in the head during a 2014 robbery attempt. He is also a suspect in the 2008 murder of a woman in Lynn, Massachusetts.

A day later his wife, Harmony's stepmother Kayla Montgomery, was charged with one count of welfare fraud for obtaining $1,500 worth of food stamps on Harmony's behalf between December 2019 and June 2021, even though Harmony was no longer living with her and Adam.

Kayla and Adam have three children together. Kayla said the last time shaw saw Harmony was in November or December 2019, when Adam said he was going to take her to Massachusetts, where Crys lived at the time. He returned alone and Kayla never saw or heard about Harmony after that, and assumed she was safe in her mother's care.

Photos of Kayla and Adam Montgomery and Crys Sorey are posted with this case summary.

Authorities don't believe Harmony was enrolled in school at the time of her disappearance. She previously attended a school in Massachusetts. Her case remains unsolved, but police and her family hope she is still alive.
 
mlhenn said:
Harmony Montgomery – The Charley Project

Casefile updated


Details of Disappearance
Harmony was last seen in Manchester, New Hampshire sometime in late 2019. The police were called to her residence on Gilford Street for unspecified reasons in October. On November 27, Harmony and her family were evicted from the Gilford Street home.

Multiple people reported seeing Harmony with her father and stepmothewr in the ensuing days, but between December 6 and December 10, the adults were seen only with their other children, not Harmony. She is believed to have vanished sometime between November 28 and December 10.

Harmony's mother, Crystal "Crys" Renee Sorey, notified police in November 2021 that Harmony was missing. Crys had lost custody of Harmony in 2018 due to substance abuse issues, and after she went into recovery and became sober she tried to contact Harmony. The child had been in foster care with her brother, until she was reunited with her father, Adam Montgomery, in February 2019. (Her brother was adopted by a family later that year, but remains in contact with Crys.)

Crys was able to locate them and she had a video call with Adam around Easter 2019, and saw Harmony in the background, looking "frightened." This is the last time her mother saw her. After that, Adam blocked all contact, and Crys tried to locate her daughter for months without result. She said she had "a gut feeling that something is not right." She said she made repeated calls to authorities about her concerns for Harmony's welfare and had been ignored.

Police were initially unable to locate Adam. He was eventually found in Manchester, living in a car. Harmony wasn't with him and he said he had given her to the care of her mother around Thanksgiving 2019. This wasn't true, however, and Adam soon stopped cooperating with the investigation.

Harmony's uncle, Kevin Montgomery, said he had seen Harmony with a black eye during the summer of 2019 and asked Adam about it. Adam told him he had "bashed her around the apartment" after he left her unattended with her baby half-brother and came back to find her covering the infant's mouth to stop its crying.

Kevin said he had observed other behaviors by Adam that he thought were abusive, such as forcing Harmony to stand in a corner for four hours and telling her to scrub the toilet with her toothbrush. He said the family had made multiple reports to New Hampshire's Division of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) and Adam cut off contact with them because of this.

In January 2022, Adam was arrested and charged with felony second-degree assault for abusing Harmony in the summer of 2019, and misdemeanor charges of interference with custody and endangering the welfare of a child for failing to report his daughter missing. He has a history of violent behavior and in was sentenced to 18 months in prison after shooting a man in the head during a 2014 robbery attempt. He is also a suspect in the 2008 murder of a woman in Lynn, Massachusetts.

A day later his wife, Harmony's stepmother Kayla Montgomery, was charged with one count of welfare fraud for obtaining $1,500 worth of food stamps on Harmony's behalf between December 2019 and June 2021, even though Harmony was no longer living with her and Adam.

Kayla and Adam have three children together. Kayla said the last time shaw saw Harmony was in November or December 2019, when Adam said he was going to take her to Massachusetts, where Crys lived at the time. He returned alone and Kayla never saw or heard about Harmony after that, and assumed she was safe in her mother's care.

Photos of Kayla and Adam Montgomery and Crys Sorey are posted with this case summary.

Authorities don't believe Harmony was enrolled in school at the time of her disappearance. She previously attended a school in Massachusetts. Her case remains unsolved, but police and her family hope she is still alive.
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He is also a suspect in the 2008 murder of a woman in Lynn, Massachusetts. -
A MAN in Lynn not woman
 
Laughing said:
Behind a paywall for me. :(
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Authorities kept getting warnings about the little house on Gilford Street.

The calls to Manchester police came in bursts in 2019, sometimes more than once a week. There were reports of loud fights, complaints about an aggressive pit bull named Mama, concerns about a child at a trash-strewn house that didn’t have electricity.

A New Hampshire child welfare case worker came out at one point and took note of Harmony Montgomery, a blond-haired, blue-eyed, partially blind, 5-year-old. Around this time, the state’s child welfare agency received another worrying report: Harmony’s uncle had seen her with a black eye.

As these warnings mounted in late 2019, and after being evicted from the house, Harmony’s father and stepmother moved the family into two cars. Soon after, the girl seemingly vanished, authorities said. And the state agency tasked with protecting children apparently never noticed. <modsnip: 10% copyright rule>
 
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