The father of 5-year-old Harmony Montgomery, who captured the nation’s attention when she went missing in December 2019, has been sentenced for murdering his daughter.
Adam Montgomery, 34, was sentenced on Thursday to 56 years to life in prison, to run consecutively with his sentence of 33.5 to 60 years in prison for unrelated firearms charges, People Magazine reported. Montgomery was found guilty in February of second-degree murder, second-degree assault, witness tampering, falsifying evidence, and abuse of corpse.
It took a jury less than a day to convict Montgomery of Harmony’s murder, even though her remains have never been found.
Montgomery was in prison at the time of Harmony’s birth, so she lived with her mother, Crystal Sorey, until the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) became involved when Harmony was just two months old. DCF placed Harmony in foster…
