Everyone failed to protect Harmony Montgomery

Harmony Montgomery is 7 years old if she is alive, but nobody has seen her since the fall of 2019.

When she went missing, Harmony was living in New Hampshire with Adam Montgomery, a man whose DNA she shares (I will not use the word father to describe him.)

Her mother lives in Massachusetts, where a judge in February 2019 made the fateful decision that forced Harmony to live with Adam.

Harmony’s mother reportedly lost the custody battle because she had a drug problem, but Adam Montgomery was a drug dealer with a long record of violence, including gun violence and violence against women. His full criminal record has not been released, so we don’t know whether he has a history of child abuse or sex crimes.

The judge who gave Adam custody, Mark Newman, made an inexplicably bad decision because it’s not exactly news that drug dealers are also involved with guns and violence. Harmony should not have been forced to live with a drug addict or a drug dealer. Foster care isn’t great, but she would have been better off living in a zoo

Harmony montgomery has been missing since 2019, and seems to have fallen between the cracks of state oversight, when a massachusetts judge awarded her father, adam montgomery custody while new Hampshire officials were still reviewing the case, including past violent crimes.