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CONCORD, N.H. -- A New Hampshire antheral convicted of sidesplitting his 5-year-old girl and moving her corpse astir for months earlier disposing of it was sentenced Thursday to a minimum of 56 years successful situation connected execution and different changes.
That condemnation volition beryllium added connected to the minimum 32 1/2-year condemnation Adam Montgomery, 34, began past twelvemonth connected unrelated weapon charges, making it improbable that helium volition ever get retired of situation pursuing his actions successful the decease of Harmony Montgomery. Police judge she was killed astir 2 years earlier she was reported missing successful 2021. Her assemblage was ne'er found.
Montgomery did not be the proceedings successful February. He was ordered by the justice to beryllium successful tribunal Thursday aft his lawyer asked for him to beryllium excused, saying Montgomery has maintained his innocence connected charges of second-degree murder, second-degree battle and witnesser tampering. He had admitted to maltreatment of a corpse and falsifying evidence.
His estranged wife, Kayla Montgomery, had testified that her family, including her 2 young sons with Adam Montgomery, had been evicted close earlier Thanksgiving successful 2019 and were surviving successful a car. She said connected Dec. 7, Adam Montgomery punched Harmony Montgomery astatine respective halt lights arsenic they drove from a methadone session to a accelerated food edifice due to the fact that helium was aggravated that the kid was having bath accidents successful the car.
After that, she said she handed nutrient to the children successful the car without checking connected Harmony Montgomery and that the mates aboriginal discovered she was dormant aft the car broke down. She testified that her hubby enactment the assemblage successful a duffel bag. She described assorted places wherever the girl’s assemblage was hidden, including the trunk of a car, a cooler, a stateless halfway ceiling vent and the walk-in freezer astatine her husband’s workplace.
During Adam Montgomery’s trial, his lawyers suggested that Kayla continued to prevarication to support herself. They said their lawsuit did not termination Harmony, and that Kayla Montgomery was the past idiosyncratic to spot the kid alive.
Kayla Montgomery testified that she didn’t travel guardant astir the child’s decease due to the fact that she was acrophobic of her husband. She said Adam Montgomery suspected that she mightiness spell to the police, truthful helium began punching her, giving her achromatic eyes, she said. She yet ran distant from him successful March 2021.
Kayla Montgomery was precocious granted parole. She is expected to beryllium released from situation soon aft serving an 18-month sentence. She pleaded blameworthy to perjury charges related to the probe into the child’s disappearance and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.
Adam Montgomery had custody of the girl. Her mother, Crystal Sorey, who was nary longer successful a narration with him, said the past clip she saw Harmony Montgomery was during a video telephone successful April 2019. She yet went to police, who announced they were looking for the missing kid connected New Year’s Eve 2021.
Harmony Montgomery’s lawsuit has exposed weaknesses successful kid extortion systems and provoked calls to prioritize the well-being of children implicit parents successful custody matters. Harmony was moved betwixt the homes of her parent and her foster parents aggregate times earlier Adam Montgomery received custody successful 2019 and moved to New Hampshire.
Authorities program to support searching for the girl's remains, believed to beryllium on a way Adam Montgomery drove successful a rental motortruck into Massachusetts successful March 2020.
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