How the system failed missing children Harmony Montgomery & Oakley Carlson

Published: Jan. 20, 2022, 5 a.m.

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Harmony Montgomery and Oakley Carlson lived on opposite sides of the country. They never met each other and neither had the chance to even live their own lives.
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\\nBoth Harmony and Oakley vanished while in the care of their parents - the very people who were meant to nurture, care and protect them.
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\\nHarmony was last known to be alive in 2019.\\xa0 She would be 7 years old if she is alive today.\\xa0 Harmony\\u2019s early years were sad - both her parents had drug abuse issues and Harmony had been in foster homes.\\xa0 She was eventually returned to the custody of her father Adam, and that decision sealed her fate.
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\\nIt finally came to light in 2021 that Harmony had not been seen for years.\\xa0 Her biological mother has just now been speaking publicly and insists she has been trying to find Harmony.\\xa0 Police have been searching the last locations in New Hampshire that Harmony was known to be at and nothing has been found. \\xa0 Adam has now been arrested on charges related to the abuse and neglect of Harmony.
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\\nOakley Carlson also had a rough start to life.\\xa0 She had been placed with a foster family when she was a baby and she lived with them for years.\\xa0 The foster family have said publicly that they were devastated when Oakley was returned to the care of her biological parents.
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\\nHer foster mother Jamie said\\xa0 \\u201cThey made a mistake. \\u201cA big mistake. I told them in my last letter it was going to be on their shoulders if something happens to her.\\u201d
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\\nA school principal raised the alarm about not seeing Oakley in December 2021.\\xa0 Police began to investigate and discovered that Oakley had not been seen since February 2021.
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\\nOakley\\u2019s parents Andrew Carlson and Jordan Bowers have been investigated and they have since been charged with apparently withholding potentially life saving medication from one of Oakley\\u2019s siblings.
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\\nAs of mid January 2022, there is no sign of either Harmony or Oakley.
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\\nYou can read our blog for Harmony here - https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2022/01/17/slipped-through-the-cracks-where-is-harmony-montgomery/
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\\nAnd our blog for Oakley is here - https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2022/01/17/where-is-5-year-old-oakley-carlson/
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\\nYou can listen on Apple here - https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/true-crime-society/id1504300714?i=1000548437170
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\\nAnd Spotify here - https://open.spotify.com/episode/2RWhIfAbFiBVilgL7VF5lg?si=8RzqOPx6Qd2ca0Ohq3vdkw
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