Harmony Montgomery & Elijah Lewis were two young children whose disappearance and alleged gruesome murders bear the same markings — failures by New Hampshire’s DCYF — again.
There are questions that Richard C Tracy, New Hampshire’s Chief Crimes Investigator, needs to answer because too many children have fallen prey to atrocious lack of accountability at the state’s agencies — for decades. This is by design, and it is deliberate.
Public trust in both NHPD and DCYF has been eviscerated due to cover-ups of abuse at the Youth Detention Center, deletion of files, and protection of corrupt police officers by the AG’s office.
Richard C Tracy should be under investigation. He is, after all, on the board of the Granite State Children’s Alliance (aka “Children’s Advocacy Centers”) and is apparently incapable of investigating failures of DCYF and the Police. Failures that led to fatalities.
According to Kayla Montgomery’s (strategically?) unsealed (coerced?) affidavit, Harmony Montgomery was murdered by her father, Adam Montgomery, in December 2019. He was known to authorities as a convicted drug dealer.
The last time there was a visit to the Montgomery house by authorities was allegedly in October 2019 — two months before. And authorities had been informed of a black eye injury noticed by Harmony’s uncle in August 2019.
It then took over two years for Manchester Police to state Harmony was missing even though her mother, Crystal Sorey, had allegedly made several inquiries about her to New Hampshire officials, including to Mayor Joyce Craig’s office.
There are some gaps in the official narrative. Richard C Tracy, police, DCYF, and prosecutors need to answer. Harmony Montgomery looks like so many other little girls whose faces plaster the walls of the Canadian/American border entrance points — the missing children. Whether or not she was a victim of trafficking or solely a victim of abuse by her father needs to be looked into, and the fact that the authorities are not pondering this is a red flag.
For starters, there is a protocol in place for how allegations of domestic violence are handled. This is a protocol that goes back to at least 2002 — with contributions to its publication from members of DCYF (including Sylvia Gale) and police (including James F McLaughlin — currently being very slowly investigated for corruption. McLaughlin worked closely with DCYF and yet was known for being dishonest, fabricating statements, soliciting adults with the images of children (entrapment), and abusing guns. In short, he is a criminal who operated under the protection of qualified immunity, including protection by the NH AG’s office and Richard C Tracy.
Why were the protocols for child abuse not followed by DCYF or Manchester PD when it came to Harmony Montgomery or children in foster care or children at the Youth Detention Center? They research and provide them for school employees. Don’t they apply to DCYF, police & public employees who created them as well? Or do these have a different set of “best practices”? If so, these “best practices” they use internally for their own need to be published and scrutinized. Who authorizes DCYF to delete files?
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What’s the point of having Governor’s commissions or task forces to address domestic violence, child abuse, and sexual violence when the recommendations are routinely ignored year after year, decade after decade? What’s the point of a Governor’s commission to implement recommendations after the discovery of failures across agencies (including the AG’s office) for Ponzi and money laundering enterprises like the FRM Ponzi scheme? These go hand in hand with child trafficking and drug trafficking. They are interconnected. You cannot traffic weapons, drugs, or children without having a money laundering front — shell companies, shell non-profits, shell realty investments, shell investigations. The system is broken, AND they don’t want to fix it because it’s yielded a portion of the $932.5 billion in secret offshore Pandora Papers wealth.
DCYF was aware of Montgomery’s drug dealing, and so were Manchester Police. Since Richard C Tracy and a member of Manchester Police are effectively directly tied to DCYF via Granite State Children’s Alliance board (Children’s Advocacy Centers), why is it that Chief Aldenberg of Manchester Police indicated that his department was telling the truth, but others were not? And he’s criticizing Mayor Joyce Craig for playing political games. What does he know that he is not allowed to say?
Jeff Hatch of Granite State Recovery was known to authorities as a fentanyl trafficker for five years. He stated he was part of a network but sworn to secrecy. He worked at a recovery center that is part of the Catholic Medical Center network, a recipient of Medicaid…and he was trafficking drugs. Was Adam Montgomery tied to Jeff Hatch’s network? Are Manchester PD and DCYF tied to that network?
What if NHPD, DCYF, Mayor Joyce Craig, and Richard C Tracy are all playing drug games? What if drug court advocate Tina Nadeau, chief justice for New Hampshire’s superior courts, is too?
The police union chief for San Jose California, Joanne Marian Segovia, was charged with importing and trafficking fentanyl across the nation. Former US Attorney for New Hampshire, Scott Murray, was unable to adequately answer questions (or perhaps he was evading them) from journalists demanding to know why Bedford police were not involved in a huge drug bust. Bedford, which coincidentally houses offices for the FBI, DEA, and Primary Bank on whose board was Andrew H Crews of Autofair, Children’s Advocacy Centers, New Hampshire State Lottery, and…Granite One Health tied to the CMC where there are opioids and fentanyl aplenty. CMC has been fined in kickback schemes that hid serious medical malpractice.
Boston Police Chief Patrick Rose was protected for decades as a pedophile, known to DCYF, City and State agencies.
Could members of New Hampshire’s police department and DCYF be involved in this kind of operation? Were Adam Montgomery & Kayla Montgomery drug traffickers for DCYF & NH PD?
What did Kelsey Small — Adam Montgomery’s girlfriend who was suddenly found dead by police — know? Why were Manchester police scant on details? Was she murdered? Would she have been a liability if she’d remained alive as a witness? — for the State?
In a brief email, Manchester police confirmed Small’s death. Small, 27, was with Adam Montgomery when police found the homeless couple sleeping in a car on Dec. 31, 2021 in the early days of the search for Harmony.
“The cause of death is still pending, but it does not appear suspicious,” wrote police spokeswoman Heather Hamel.
Elijah Lewis, another victim of horrific child abuse in New Hampshire and whose family had also been under the watch of DCYF, was found murdered in Massachusetts. He was poisoned with fentanyl and beaten.
WMUR — who reported on the affidavit for the Elijah Lewis case, written by a Merrimack Police Officer — didn’t publish the document or name the officer. WMUR’s Amy Coveno is on the board of CASA New Hampshire. Who are WMUR protecting? What is the real connection between the two cases that might have caused a defendant from one to be called as a witness against the other?
Kayla Montgomery’s story only changed once the Grand Jury was involved and then her statements were released pretrial just as Elijah Lewis’ mother’s (Danielle Dauphinais) statement was released pretrial. Kayla’s affidavit came AFTER Kelsey Small was found dead.
Did the Grand Jury convene after this for a reason?
According to Concord Police Chief Bradley Osgood, payments are sometimes made to witnesses appearing before a Grand Jury and these payments are not necessarily made known to the defense or judge. Is it possible that in both cases police & prosecutors are attempting to manipulate the perception of the cases pretrial in order to escape scrutiny of members of the DCYF and police who failed to follow the protocols in place? It’s bad enough to coerce a statement for an affidavit. It’s even worse to do so as part of a secret deal for PD or DCYF to avoid scrutiny.
Richard C Tracy, New Hampshire’s top crimes investigator and on the board of Children’s Advocacy Centers has some accountability here. Jeff Hatch of Granite Recovery Centers admitted that he was part of a larger fentanyl trafficking network but was sworn to secrecy. He was given an exceptionally light sentence considering the crime. Kayla Montgomery has been given an exceptionally light deal so far as well. Charges against her for welfare fraud have been dropped. How convenient for the prosecution. Keeping the welfare fraud charges would allow the defense to get discovery on any misconduct by the State regarding welfare fraud — such as double billing the federal Government. Or perhaps the State knew that Harmony Montgomery was dead, and discovery in the welfare fraud charge would expose this?
The State was just fined $7.9 million for Medicaid fraud after all.
Something is beyond rotten. DCYF is known for deleting files, covering up child abuse. Judges have ruled that CASA NH should have judicial immunity in child abuse cases involving DCYF and CASA.
Of course — look at the members of CASA’s board and you are basically looking at public officials, law enforcement and the department of revenue. For a volunteer organization, why would former AG Michael Delaney and his wife Caroline Delaney, have a financial interest in CASA NH? And why was Michael Delaney so quick to jump in and sort out a plea deal for Judge Julie Introcaso who whited out judicial documents, had children removed from their parents and ordered GAL Kathleen Sternenberg to be paid using Apple Pay?
The NH AG’s office has protected corrupt police officers. Massachusetts & Boston authorities & DCYF protected Patrick Rose, police union chief and also a known pedophile.
Who can anyone trust to tell the truth and bring justice for these victims of drug & child abuse? How many grams of fentanyl, how many dollars is a child’s life worth to NHPD, DCYF, Mayors, attorneys, non-profits and DOJ?
