The father of little Harmony Montgomery was sentenced to life in prison in the United States after being found guilty of the murder of his 5-year-old daughter.
This is the end of a case that lasted for years. A traumatic affair as the details are so sordid. Thursday, May 9, the father of little Harmony Montgomery was sentenced in the United States to life in prison for the murder of his 5-year-old daughter, reports “People” magazine. The man was found guilty last February of involuntary manslaughter, assault, witness tampering and tampering with evidence. Prosecutors said the girl’s father beat her to death in December 2019 because she peed in his car. According to the conclusions of the investigation, the father hit his daughter in the head on December 7, 2019, several times. He then tried to pressure his wife, the little victim’s mother-in-law, into providing false information to the emergency services.
According to the prosecutor’s words, the father, after beating his daughter in the car, went to place an order in a restaurant, not worrying about his fate. “He pulled into this Burger King parking lot and ordered his food. He ordered his food and he ate. He did not stop to check if Harmony was okay,” denounced the prosecutor. “He didn’t look at her. He showed no concern for this innocent little girl. He ordered his food and he ate. And he didn’t stop. »
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The mother-in-law, Kayla Montgomery told jurors in Hillsborough County Court in New Hampshire that she saw Harmony’s lifeless body in the back seat of the family car. Rather than call for help, she and Adam set out to dispose of the body. In court, she confirmed that she had been in the car with the dead little girl and had gone to Burger King. After the crime, they went together to buy crack, which they both then took.
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The remains never found
Adam first hid the body in a bag placed under a pile of snow near a trash can. Then, in the days that followed, he allegedly moved it several times, finally taking it back with him when they had just moved in with Adam Montgomery’s mother. There, he allegedly put the bag in a refrigerator. When the family eventually moved out of that apartment, Adam took the bag with him again, hiding it in the ceiling of the apartment they were temporarily occupying. Kayla Montgomery – who was sentenced to 18 months in prison for perjury – admitted to carrying the same bag into a restaurant in the Portland Pie Company and left it in a freezer. After another move, the bag still containing the little girl’s corpse was moved again, put in the refrigerator of their new home. According to the testimony of the former mother-in-law, Adam Montgomery then spent hours in the shower trying to thaw it. Last step before the couple definitively disposes of the body, of which they still refuse today to give the final location.
Harmony’s remains were never found, and the little girl was not reported missing until November 2021, when her biological mother, Crystal Sorey, notified authorities. “My love for Harmony outweighs my hatred for you,” the mother reacted in a statement to the “Boston Globe” after her ex’s conviction. “I wish you nothing but pain and misery for the rest of your pathetic life,” she added. Adam Montgomery’s public defender, Caroline L. Smith, told the court on May 9 that her client was innocent, saying he “did not kill his daughter” but still committed ” inexplicable acts” after learning of his death.
