Adam Montgomery Given 56 Years Of Imprisonment For His Daughter’s Death

A dad from New Hampshire who was found guilty of killing his 5-year-old daughter and relocating her body over several months before getting rid of it was given a minimum of 56 years in jail on Thursday for murder and other offences.

Adam Montgomery, 34, started serving a minimum 32 1/2-year term last year on unrelated firearms crimes; that sentence will be added to it. Given his involvement in Harmony Montgomery’s killing, it seems unlikely that he will ever be released from jail. Before she was listed as missing in 2021, the police suspected she was killed about two years earlier. Her corpse was never discovered.

Montgomery did not show up for the February trial. The judge had him appear in court on Thursday after Montgomery’s attorney requested an excuse, arguing that Montgomery has consistently maintained his innocence about the counts of second-degree murder, second-degree assault, and witness tampering. He had acknowledged mistreating a corpse and fabricating evidence.

Kayla Montgomery, his estranged wife, said that her family—which included her two young sons with Adam Montgomery—had been forced to move before Thanksgiving of 2019 and was now living out of a car. She said that on December 7, while driving from a methadone clinic to a fast food restaurant, Adam Montgomery hit Harmony Montgomery at many stop signs out of rage because the child was having accidents in the restroom.

After that, she claimed she fed the kids in the car without thinking about Harmony Montgomery, and when the car broke down later, the couple found out she had died. Her husband, according to her testimony, placed the body in a duffel bag. She listed other locations where the girl’s body was concealed, such as a walk-in freezer at her husband’s place of employment, a cooler, a ceiling vent in a homeless centre, and the trunk of a car.

It was alleged by Adam Montgomery’s attorneys throughout his trial that Kayla kept lying to keep herself safe. They claimed that Kayla Montgomery was the last person to see Harmony alive and that their client did not murder her.

According to Kayla Montgomery’s testimony, she was scared of her husband, which prevented her from reporting the child’s death. She claimed that Adam Montgomery started striking her, giving her black eyes, because he thought she might call the police. Eventually, in March 2021, she fled from him.

Kayla Montgomery was just permitted to leave. After serving an 18-month sentence, her release from prison is anticipated soon. She consented to work with prosecutors after entering a guilty plea to perjury charges about the child’s missing investigation.

The girl was under Adam Montgomery’s custody. The last time she saw Harmony Montgomery, according to her mother Crystal Sorey, who was no longer seeing him, was in April 2019 via a video conversation. When she finally went to the police, they informed her that they would be searching for the missing child on New Year’s Eve of 2021.

The case of Harmony Montgomery has brought attention to deficiencies in child protection systems and sparked demands that parents should not have primary custody over their children’s best interests. Before Adam Montgomery was granted custody in 2019 and relocated to New Hampshire, Harmony was frequently transported between the residences of her foster parents and mother.

Authorities intend to continue looking for the girl’s remains, which are thought to be located along the path Adam Montgomery took into Massachusetts in March 2020 while driving a rental truck.