the father of harmony montgomery a little girl who disappeared in 2019 was arrested on monday for her murder new hampshire officials said adam montgomery 32 is charged with seconddegree murder tampering with a witness falsifying evidence and abuse of a corpse new hampshire attorney general john formella announced at a news conference monday prosecutors allege adam montgomery repeatedly hit his daughter in the head on or about dec 7 2019 the tampering with a witness charge is for allegedly pressuring his wife to give false information prosecutors said this undated booking photo provided by the manchester police department shows adam montgomery of manchester nh manchester police department via ap file this august authorities announced they had determined harmony had been murdered in manchester in early december 2019 harmonys remains have not been found she would be 8 years old if alive today manchester police chief allen aldenberg became choked up when talking about harmony at mondays news conference more girl missing since 2019 was murdered in new hampshire remains not found police in honor of harmony an innocent and defenseless child the chief said he wanted to encourage people to do something nice for a child today give him or her a hug some special words of encouragement he said a missing child poster for harmony montgomery hangs on a post in manchester nh may 5 2022 charles krupaap file formella called the arrest a major step but said more work must be done harmonys case dates back to 2019 when a massachusetts court ordered harmony be sent to live with her father and stepmother in new hampshire according to a state report released in february harmonys mother crystal sorey said the last time she saw harmony was via facetime in spring 2019 officials said in july 2019 an anonymous call was made to new hampshires division for children youth and families alleging that in a visit a week earlier he or she saw harmony had a black eye that adam montgomery admitted to causing the report said the same day as the anonymous call a case worker visited and didnt see a black eye on harmony the report said one week later that same case worker noted a red mark and faded bruising under harmonys eyelid and both harmony and her dad told the worker the mark was from being hit by a toy while playing the report said in following visits to the home the children appeared happy and healthy the report said in the last visit in october 2019 case workers found the abuse allegations unfounded but added the situation was scored high risk for future child welfare involvement pursuant to the risk assessment tool citing the history of substance use prior family history with child protection and economic challenges according to the report in january 2020 adam montgomery told the child protective services worker that harmony had been living in massachusetts with her mother since thanksgiving 2019 the report said the worker left