The police chief investigating the disappearance of a seven-year-old New Hampshire woman who has been lacking for 2 years mentioned he believes she's alive and that officers had been the final to see her in 2019 in a press convention on Monday.
Concord Montgomery was final seen by cops at a house close to the river metropolis of Manchester on October 2019 when she was 5 years outdated.
'We have now to function underneath the idea that she is alive and properly someplace and that any individual is aware of one thing,' Manchester Police Chief Allen Aldenberg mentioned.
Her uncle beforehand mentioned he reported an incident about her to little one providers again in 2019, however that his nephew stopped speaking to him due to it.
Aldenberg mentioned within the convention that the Division of Youngsters Youth and Their Households (DCYF) solely introduced Concord's disappearance to their consideration final week.
When requested why it took so lengthy for her to be reported lacking, he replied: 'That is what we're attempting to resolve.'
'If there was some flaw within the system: The place was it and the way is it going to be addressed?' Aldenberg added after refusing to reply any extra questions in regards to the police's conversations with the DCYF.
Aldenberg even received emotional as he introduced that the police division was opening a tip line devoted to details about Concord's assault that will be manned by a juvenile detective 24/7.
Anybody with 'reliable info' was requested to name or textual content 603-203-6060.
A $12,500 reward was being supplied for any info that might result in discovering Concord. The Manchester crime line was providing $2,500 and a neighborhood businessman supplied up the remaining $10,000.
Police additionally confirmed the 2 most up-to-date photos they've of Concord - one in every of her in glasses, which Aldenberg mentioned to 'hone in on' so as to assist discover her.
The younger woman wears glasses as a result of she is blind in her proper eye.
'Someone on the market is aware of one thing. It's time for individuals to do the precise factor,' the police chief mentioned as he pleaded with the general public to name the tip line.
In the meantime, police have mentioned that they're in touch along with her family, though they refused to reveal which members of the family, even when requested if police anticipated Concord to be staying along with her mom or father.
'Doing so would compromise the investigation, I am not even going to go close to that,' Aldenberg mentioned.
On Sunday, officers searched a house in Manchester in connection to her disappearance, and the place cops final noticed her.
The house seems to have been owned by a relative of Concord's till it was foreclosed in September 2019, a month earlier than her disappearance, in line with county information.
At Monday's information convention, the chief emphasised that the girl who at present lives on the residence has no connection to Concord's disappearance and is cooperating within the investigation in any manner that she will.
Concord's uncle advised Boston station WBTS that he reported an unspecified incident involving Concord to the New Hampshire DCYF again in July or August of 2019.
The unnamed uncle didn't reveal any any specifics in regards to the incident.
She was final seen in October of that yr.
Concord is described as being 4ft tall and weighing 50lbs. She has blonde hair, and blue eyes and is alleged to be carrying glasses as a result of being blind in her proper eye. The final images taken of Concord are from two years in the past.
Manchester Police Chief Allen D. Aldenberg confirmed that officers searched a house at 77 Gilford Avenue on Sunday, in line with New Hampshire Union Chief.
Officers arrived at 8.29am and left simply after 2pm. Drone footage on social media confirmed a tent arrange within the yard, the newspaper reported.
The property was owned by Helen Montgomery, 78, and Christina Digirolamo from 2016 till it was foreclosed on September 5, 2019, in line with the Hillsborough County Register of Deeds.
The property additionally seems to have been the house of Kevin Lester Montgomery, 43.
Kevin and Helen's relation to Concord has not been confirmed by DailyMail.com.
The five-bedroom, three-bathroom residence, inbuilt 1961, was bought by a unique purchaser in Might 2020 for $120,000.
'Manchester police turned conscious of this this week, and I do know persons are going to say "Well here it is 2021, almost 2022, and nobody has seen this young girl since late October 2019. So what has happened in the last few years?" Honest query.
'That is why I am right here immediately. As a result of we'd like help. We want assist. And we would not have many solutions to many questions that we've,' Aldenberg mentioned.
'I do not care in case you noticed this younger woman a yr in the past and also you suppose it is irrelevant - name us.'
Police mentioned they had been knowledgeable this week by way of the Division of Youngsters Youth and Households in New Hampshire after a number of individuals filed studies of the lacking little one.
Authorities have spoken with Concord's members of the family however wouldn't reveal which family these had been.
They mentioned the woman was final seen within the space in October 2019 after police had responded to a name at a home the place she was, however they didn't disclose the main points of the decision.
Aldenberg described the case as a 'prime precedence' for his investigators however added that there is is not a number of info on the market for his division to go on in regards to the woman's disappearance.
It stays a 'very lively investigation,' he mentioned, including that police will not be trying to find anybody in connection to the case, besides Concord.
Concord was final enrolled at school in Massachusetts in 2019, in line with the police chief, however detectives do not know what city. Aldenberg did not reply whether or not Concord was the topic of a custody dispute or if any little one welfare businesses had beforehand alerted police.
'I've detectives engaged on this that every one have youngsters of their very own,' Aldenberg mentioned. 'I don't doubt their degree of dedication.'
New Hampshire Baby Advocate Moira O'Neill advised Manchester station WMUR that her workplace cannot touch upon Concord's particular case, however urged anybody with info to return ahead.
'It is also type of a name, a reminder to all of us that we should be listening to youngsters in our neighborhoods. We should be paying consideration when youngsters do not present up for college, we should be paying consideration when youngsters aren't protecting medical appointments, something like that.
'We're the security web for youngsters and we wish to be ensuring that we all know the place they're,' O'Neill mentioned.
Anybody with info is requested to contact Manchester police at 603-668-8711 or Detective Jack Dunleavy at 603-792-5561. You may also stay nameless and name the Manchester Crimeline at 603-624-4040.