A Brooklyn pimp who admitted to cutting up his prostitute girlfriend and putting her severed head in his freezer has pleaded guilty and faces life in prison for the gruesome murder and sex trafficking of eight women.
Somorie Moses, whose nicknames included “Sugar Bear” and “Daddy,” faced a 10-count indictment Friday for sex trafficking eight women and murder in the course of sex trafficking for the Jan. 12, 2017, killing of his girlfriend Leondra Foster.
He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years behind bars, and up to life in prison, at his Jan. 8 sentencing. In federal court in Brooklyn,
The 47-year-old pimp was previously convicted by a Brooklyn state court jury in 2019 of negligent homicide and concealment of a corpse for Foster’s murder. The jury acquitted him of the murder charge.
He served a four- to eight-year prison sentence and was scheduled to be released on parole in May 2022 before the feds arrested him again on the new charge of murder in the course of sex trafficking.
Moses murdered Foster, 32, one of his sex trafficking victims, and then, using a knife and saw, dismembered her body inside the Brooklyn apartment where they lived together, prosecutors say.
Moses faces life in prison at his January sentencing for the murder of Leondra Foster, whom he admitted dismembering. Rashid Umar Abbasi
Four days later, on the morning of January 17, 2017, Moses disposed of Foster’s torso and limbs at a Bronx health site, the feds say. His head, hands and feet, including a foot with the name “Somorie” tattooed on it, were found by police inside Moses’ freezer, prosecutors say.
In addition to the murder, as early as 2003, Moses forced women and girls into the sex trade and used threats, violence and manipulation to keep them working for him, prosecutors say.
Foster (left) was his friend and also one of his sex trafficking victims.
He often tricked women into believing he loved them, slept with them and promised to marry them before making them work for him, the feds claim. And he frequently pressured women to tattoo “Somorie” on their bodies, prosecutors say.
Moses beat, raped, tortured and threatened to kill the women, all to force them to be prostitutes for him, officials claim.
Police found Foster’s head, hands and feet hidden in Moses’ freezer in his Brooklyn apartment. Michael Dalton
According to prosecutors, Moses used a Taser on a woman who refused to become a prostitute and put a shotgun in another woman’s mouth, threatening to kill her and her son if she did not become a sex worker.
The ruthless pimp once slashed one of his victims’ arms and back with a razor blade and beat her with a belt, then poured lemon juice on her wounds, leaving her with permanent scars, the feds claim.
“While the defendant’s full admission of guilt cannot undo the terrible harm he has caused, we hope it brings closure to his victims who suffered from the defendant’s extreme cruelty and brutality, and to Ms. Foster’s family,” Brooklyn US attorney Breon Peace said in a statement on Friday.
Moses’ attorneys did not immediately respond to a request for comment Sunday.
Categories: Trending
Source: vtt.edu.vn