BOSTON (Court TV) — Massachusetts’ highest court is weighing whether to release audio recordings of a hearing that led to Harmony Mongtomery going into her killer’s custody.
Harmony Montgomery is seen in an undated family photo. (Crystal Sorey)
Harmony’s father, Adam Montgomery , was convicted in New Hampshire of murdering the 5-year-old , whose body has never been found. Before Adam brought his daughter to New Hampshire and killed her, he won custody of her in a Massachusetts courtroom.
When Harmony was born on June 7, 2014, Adam was in prison and wouldn’t be released until Sept. 2015. Harmony remained mostly in the custody of her mother, Crystal Sorey, until 2019, with some time spent in foster care as Sorey battled substance abuse. Harmony lived in Massachusetts until Adam won custody, at which point she moved to New Hampshire with him and his wife, Kayla Montgomery .
Both Sorey and Adam both had a history of drug addiction, while Adam also had a history of violent convictions . On the date that Sorey lost custody of her daughter, she was attending a separate custody hearing for her infant son.