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As a nationwide search was underway for Harmony Montgomery, missing for more than two years, one person who wasn’t looking for her was Adam Montgomery, her father, who had “disposed of her like yesterday’s trash,” Assistant New Hampshire Attorney General Christopher Knowles told jurors Thursday during his opening statement.
Adam Montgomery, in a surprise move, pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of falsifying physical evidence and abuse of a corpse, taking responsibility for part of the crime involving the death of his five-year-old daughter Harmony but not her murder.
It took from 8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday in Hillsborough County Superior Court North for the attorneys to select those 27 people from two jury pools totaling about 235 citizens.
Jury selection in the trial of Adam Montgomery, accused of pummeling his 5-year-old daughter to death and then secreting her remains about the city, begins Tuesday morning.
For the second time, an employee of Applied ABC, which provides the Manchester School District with staff assisting special needs students, is under arrest, accused of assaulting two children at Parker-Varney School.
The Hillsborough County Superior Court South grand jury handed up 85 indictments in January.
Dale Holloway, convicted in the shooting of Pentecostal Ministries Bishop Stanley Choate at a wedding at New England Pentecostal Ministries in Pelham in 2019, was sentenced Monday to 40 years to life on an attempted murder charge.
A city man was indicted on 10 charges accusing him of breaking into a church, assaulting police officers and choking and punching a New Hampshire State Police dog named Ivy.
According to the court documents, Louis Efstathiou was fired within an hour of the alleged assault. He worked for Applied ABC, which is contracted by the school district for Registered Behavioral Therapists, who are commonly referred to in the school district as paraprofessionals or paras.
Adam Montgomery’s uncle offered to pay Kayla Montgomery $500 to have Harmony go live with relatives in Florida after the 5-year-old suffered a black eye in the summer of 2019, allegedly at the hands of her father, according to court documents filed by his defense team.