MANCHESTER, N.H. — The state of New Hampshire reached a settlement agreement with the mother of Harmony Montgomery after she filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Division for Children, Youth and Families.
According to settlement documents, Crystal Sorey, Harmony’s mother, will receive $2,250,000 from the state.
Under the terms of the settlement, the state doesn’t have to admit any wrongdoing or unlawful conduct.
In a statement, Attorney General John M. Formella said:
“The state agreed to these settlements to avoid prolonged litigation and support closure for the families. We recognize their profound loss and hope this brings some measure of peace.”
Last September, Sorey filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the state for the “senseless and preventable death” of Harmony.
Investigators believe Harmony was slain in December 2019, though she wasn’t reported missing for almost two years.
According to the suit, Harmony lived with Sorey in Massachusetts from her birth in 2014 until February 2019, when the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families removed her from her mother over allegations of neglect. Harmony was then placed into the care of her father Adam Montgomery in New Hampshire. Montgomery was convicted of second-degree murder in February after a trial in which Montgomery acknowledged he “purposely and unlawfully removed, concealed or destroyed” her corpse and falsified physical evidence but claimed he did not kill her.
To this day, her body still hasn’t been recovered.
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