US EditionNH Settles Lawsuit Filed by Mother of Harmony Montgomery for $2.25M
- New Hampshire settled a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Crystal Sorey, mother of Harmony Montgomery, for $2.25 million in May 2025.
- In September 2024, Sorey initiated a lawsuit against New Hampshire’s child welfare agency, alleging it neglected to act on abuse complaints reported several months prior to Harmony’s death in 2019.
- Harmony Montgomery, a five-year-old from Manchester, vanished in 2019 and was legally declared dead in March 2024 without her remains being recovered.
- In February 2024, Adam Montgomery, Harmony’s father, was found guilty of murdering her and is currently serving a 56-year prison term related to her death.
- The state and DCYF did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement, which ended Sorey's lawsuit while prompting ongoing debate about child welfare oversight funding in New Hampshire.
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N.H. pays Harmony Montgomery’s mother over $2M to settle wrongful death lawsuit
The state of New Hampshire has agreed to pay Harmony Montgomery‘s mother, Crystal Storey, $2,250,000 in a settlement after she filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Division for Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) last year, NBC 10 Boston reported Friday.Originally filed in September, Sorey claimed that DCYF ignored warning signs that led to her daughter’s death at the hands of her father, Adam Montgomery, in late 2019. Warnings included re…
Mother of Harmony Montgomery reaches $2.25 million settlement with state of NH - Boston News, Weather, Sports
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire has agreed to pay $2.25 million to the mother of Harmony Montgomery, a 5-year-old girl whose father was convicted of murdering her. Crystal Sorey filed a negligence lawsuit against the state last May accusing social workers of ignoring signs that her daughter was being physically abused by her ex-husband after he was awarded custody in early 2019. Adam Montgomery is serving a minimum of 56 years in prison after…
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