Who gave a damn about Harmony Montgomery?
I don’t mean now, as governors and other politicians fall all over themselves expressing shock and outrage. I mean who gave a damn when no one else did?
Not the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families and Massachusetts courts. They tore Harmony from her mother and placed her with her father Adam in New Hampshire, — someone whose long criminal record included shooting a man in the face during a drug deal.
Not the New Hampshire Division for Children, Youth and Families, whose overloaded workers seem to have performed, at best, cursory investigations, and didn’t want to hear that the child was missing.
The one person who gave a damn is the person no one would listen to; the person who was written off from the start: Crystal Sorey — Harmony’s mother. ...
