Officials ignored warning signs prior to young girl’s death at the hands of her father, lawsuit says

According to the lawsuit, the father’s uncle Kevin Montgomery contacted the agency to tell them Harmony had a “vibrant” black eye after she was “punched clear in the eye socket with full force” and that Adam had told him he’d “bounced her off” every wall in the house.

What the actual fuck.

The couple later discovered the girl was dead after the car broke down, Kayla Montgomery testified. She said her husband put the body in a duffel bag. She described various places where the girl’s body was hidden, including the trunk of a car, a cooler, a homeless center ceiling vent and the walk-in freezer at her husband’s workplace.

So this guy was toting a child-corpse around and hiding her in places where others simply didn't notice? I wanted more info on the step-mother. Is she in prison for complicity in the scheme? I gotta think so.

Followed a link in the article to her testimony:

Kayla Montgomery said Harmony was potty trained, but had begun having frequent accidents. She testified that her husband punched Harmony in the head after two such accidents in the car.

He later covered Harmony with a blanket as the child cried, moaned and eventually went silent, the stepmother said. Their car broke down soon afterward and Adam Montgomery put Harmony’s body in the duffel bag, she said.

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“Right,” said Montgomery, who is serving an 18-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to perjury for lying during grand jury testimony about where she was when Harmony was last seen.

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The duffel bag made it from the trunk of a friend’s car to a hallway cooler near an apartment where Kayla Montgomery’s mother lived, and then to a ceiling vent in a shelter where the family stayed for about six weeks.

I find it difficult to believe that a corpse spent six weeks in a ceiling without detection, but there's no reason to believe that she's lying about this child dying from abuse. If anything, I think the step-mother may share more guilt in hiding the body. But I guess prosecutors weighed his conviction as the most important aspect of the case.

We live in such a fucked up society.

What did this mother do to lose a custody battle to this piece of shit? Was foster care not the better option here?? Fuck.

As the father of a nearly 5 year old girl, reading this makes my blood boil. I would strangle this man with every ounce of strength in my body

How much do we want to bet that someone along the line looked the other way because they believe in being violent towards their kids?

You know, the "spare the rod..." sort. Those people still exist, unfortunately.

The wife/stepmother should be in prison too as it sounds like she helped him cover it up.

According to the lawsuit, the father’s uncle Kevin Montgomery contacted the agency to tell them Harmony had a “vibrant” black eye after she was “punched clear in the eye socket with full force” and that Adam had told him he’d “bounced her off” every wall in the house.

Imagine being related to that piece of shit, seeing how horrible of a person he is, and being forced to watch him destroy a child's life while the government refuses to do anything. I'm amazed the father isn't dead. Being sentenced to prison or executed is too merciful. He should be tied up in public and subjected to a constant, high but non-lethal electric current until he dies of dehydration.

Edit: this is less about revenge and more about how I'm very low on empathy and patience for the shit heads of the world right now; and I'm extremely tired of them and wondering what it'd take to make them shut up and go away.