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<h2 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#261c1d;font-size:14px"><strong>Harmony Montgomery was just five when she mysteriously disappeared around Thanksgiving in 2019, however, authorities were only made aware she&#8217;s missing in November 2021 ;</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#261c1d;font-size:14px"><strong>Her stepmother Kayla Montgomery, 32, Friday pled guilty to two charges alleging that she lied to a grand jury about working at a doughnut shop on November 30, 2019 </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#261c1d;font-size:14px"><strong>She also agreed to cooperate with prosecutors who have charged her estranged husband, Adam Montgomery, with second-degree murder in the child&#8217;s death ;</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#261c1d;font-size:14px"><strong>In exchange, prosecutors dropped charges that Montgomery lied to state health officials about having her stepdaughter in her care in order to collect welfare benefits </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#261c1d;font-size:14px"><strong>She was sentenced to three and a half to seven years in prison, with one and a half years of the minimum suspended and given as credit for time already served </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#261c1d;font-size:14px"><strong><strong>Kayla&#8217;s estranged husband, Adam Montgomery, was charged with the murder of his daughter, nearly three years after her disappearance</strong> </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#261c1d;font-size:14px"><strong>Adam Montgomery&#8217;s priors include being charged with assault arising from a blow to Harmony’s face in 2019 </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#261c1d;font-size:14px"><strong>Montgomery, an ex-con, had been previously awarded custody of his child by a Massachusetts juvenile court judge, despite a lengthy and violent criminal history </strong></h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Kayla-Montgomery-4.png" alt="" class="wp-image-422730"/><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><strong>Kayla Montgomery [L-R], was sentenced to three and a half to seven years in prison, with one and a half years suspended and given as credit for time already served</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>The stepmother of a ;New Hampshire ;girl who disappeared in 2019 at age five and is presumed dead has been jailed for at least a year and a half for perjury.<br>Kayla Montgomery, 32, pled guilty to two charges alleging that she lied to a grand jury about working at a doughnut shop on November 30, 2019, the day she claims she last saw Harmony Montgomery. ;<br>She also agreed to cooperate with prosecutors who have charged her estranged husband, Adam Montgomery, with second-degree murder in the child&#8217;s death.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Kayla-Montgomery-3.png" alt="" class="wp-image-422718" width="839" height="651"/><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><strong>Kayla Montgomery, [photo], pled guilty to two charges of lying to a grand jury about working at a doughnut shop on November 30, 2019, the day she claims she last saw Harmony Montgomery</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>In exchange, prosecutors dropped charges that Montgomery lied to state health officials about having the child in her care in order to collect welfare benefits and that she received stolen firearms.<br>She did not speak at her hearing in Hillsborough County Superior Court other than to indicate that she understood the details of the plea agreement. ;<br>Montgomery was sentenced to three and a half to seven years in prison, with one and a half years suspended and given as credit for time already served. <br>Her now-estranged husband, Adam Montgomery, has been charged with the murder of his daughter, nearly three years after her disappearance.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Harmony-Montgomery1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-422735" width="842" height="814"/><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><strong>Harmony Montgomery [photo], was just five when she mysteriously disappeared at the end of 2019 &#8211; cops only made aware of the girl going missing last fall</strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Adam-Montgomery-2.png" alt="" class="wp-image-422737" width="839" height="1031"/><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><strong>Kayla&#8217;s estranged husband, Adam Montgomery, [photo], was charged with the murder of his daughter &#8211; nearly three years after her disappearance</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Although the five-year-old vanished around Thanksgiving in November, 2019, authorities Harmony were not made aware she was missing until November, 2021. ;<br>In August, police announced that they believed she was killed in Manchester, New Hampshire ; in early December 2019. ;<br>Her father Adam Montgomery was charged in October with killing Harmony, then five years old, by repeatedly punching the disabled girl in the head, authorities allege.</p>



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</div><figcaption><strong>Police release interview of missing Harmony Montgomery&#8217;s father</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Adam Montgomery pled not guilty to second-degree murder, falsifying physical evidence and abuse of a corpse. In exchange, prosecutors dropped charges that Montgomery lied to state health officials about having the child in her care in order to collect welfare benefits<br>Court records show that it was Kayla Montgomery who ultimately told authorities her husband had killed his daughter, then urged her to lie about the girl&#8217;s whereabouts to investigators.<br>The alleged &#8216;killer dad&#8217; also faces charges of &#8216;altering, destroying, concealing, or removing&#8217; his daughter&#8217;s body between Dec. 7, 2019, and March 4, 2020, and for tampering with a witness.<br>The search for Harmony was launched in November of 2021, after her biological mother, Crystal Renee Sorey, reported her missing to Manchester Police. ;</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Kayla-Montgomery-9.png" alt="" class="wp-image-422739"/><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><strong>Kayla Montgomery also agreed to cooperate with prosecutors who have charged her estranged husband, Adam Montgomery, with second-degree murder in the child&#8217;s death</strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Kayla-Montgomery-8.png" alt="" class="wp-image-422738" width="840" height="609"/><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><strong>She also agreed to cooperate with prosecutors who have charged her estranged husband, Adam Montgomery, with second-degree murder in the child&#8217;s death</strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Kayla-Montgomery-7.png" alt="" class="wp-image-422734" width="839" height="673"/><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><strong>In exchange for her cooperation, prosecutors dropped charges that Kayla Montgomery lied to state health officials about having her stepdaughter in her care in order to continue collecting welfare benefits</strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Kayla-Montgomery-6.png" alt="" class="wp-image-422733" width="836" height="641"/><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><strong>Kayla Montgomery was sentenced to 3 and a half to seven years in prison, with one and a half years of the minimum suspended and given as credit for time already served</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>She was sentenced to 3 and a half to seven years in prison, with one and a half years of the minimum suspended and given as credit for time already served.<br>Montgomery had been previously awarded custody of the child by a Massachusetts juvenile court judge, despite a lengthy and violent criminal history that included a conviction for shooting a man in the head during a drug deal in Haverhill.<br>Last month, police in New Hampshire released a video from an interview with Adam Montgomery after he was first arrested in December 2021, on charges of assault, interference with custody and endangering the welfare of his daughter.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Adam-Montgomery-with-his-daughter-Harmony-Montgomery-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-422740" width="837" height="670"/><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><strong>Adam Montgomery seen [photo], with his daughter Harmony in May 22, 2017, has pled not guilty to second-degree murder, falsifying physical evidence and abuse of a corpse in the death of Harmony who was last seen around Thanksgiving of 2019</strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Adam-Montgomery-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-422724" width="834" height="564"/><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><strong> Adam Montgomery was interviewed by police about his daughter Harmony Montgomery&#8217;s disappearance months before he was charged with her murder</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>As he was interrogated, the suspected child killer chain smoked cigarettes and at one point accused police of being out of line then later pointed out that they were painting him as a monster.<br>An investigation led by the FBI ;subsequently ensued &#8211; and led cops to arrest Adam Montgomery in January 2022, in connection with a second-degree assault charge involving his daughter prior to her disappearance.<br>He was charged with the murder of his daughter late October &#8211; nearly three years after her disappearance.<br>Harmony, who was blind in one eye, ;had lived with her father, and his convict wife Kayla, in the weeks leading up to her disappearance.</p>

Stepmom of murdered Harmony Montgomery jailed 7 years after pleading guilty to perjury – Kayla Montgomery, 32, is cooperating with prosecutors who have charged the five-year-old’s dad with her murder
