SOMORIE MOSES | NY Man Sex Trafficked Eight Women, Murdered One Victim and Placed Chopped Up Body Parts in Freezer | Receives Life Sentence in Landmark Federal Case for Murder During the Commissioning of a Sex Act | ALS

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Somorie Moses, also known as "Somorie Barfield," "Sugar Bear," "Bear," and "Daddy," was recently sentenced to 10 terms of life imprisonment for his heinous crimes. This marks the first use of a federal statute criminalizing murder during sex trafficking.

Moses was convicted for sex trafficking eight women and for murdering Leondra Foster in January 2017. His brutal actions spanned nearly two decades, during which he lured women and girls with false promises of love, only to subject them to violence, threats, and psychological manipulation. He forced them into prostitution in Brooklyn and Queens, keeping all the money they earned.

Moses used brutal beatings, rape, torture, and threats to coerce his victims to work in prostitution. Moses threatened to throw one victim, identified at the sentencing proceeding as Jane Doe #1, off a roof and raped her, and bit off a piece of her buttocks and spit it at her. As to another victim, identified as Jane Doe #2, Moses slashed her arms and back with a razor and beat her with a belt before pouring lemon juice on her wounds, leaving her with extensive scarring over much of her body, including her arms, head, legs and back. When a victim identified as Jane Doe #6 did not give Moses money as he demanded, Moses beat her with an extension cord, leaving her with numerous open, bleeding cuts, and told her that he “was a pimp, this is what [he] did.” When a victim identified as Jane Doe #7 told Moses she did not want to work as a prostitute, he put a shotgun in her mouth and threatened to kill her and her child.

The Murder of Leondra Foster

In the early morning of January 13, 2017, Moses murdered Leondra Foster, one of his sex trafficking victims, by beating her until she died. The defendant beat Foster all over her body, leaving bruises and abrasions on the front and back of her torso. Moses inflicted at least five blunt force injuries to Foster’s head, either by hitting her directly or by banging her head into another surface. The fatal blow was the blow to the back left of her head. She had been alive for all of the other injuries, but that last blow to her head fractured her skull, rendering her unconscious. Foster suffered a seizure and died within minutes. The following morning, using a knife and a saw, Moses dismembered Foster’s body inside their shared apartment in Brooklyn. Moses brought another woman back to his apartment for a sexual encounter while Foster’s dismembered body was concealed in it. The woman later told law enforcement that there was a strong odor of bleach in the apartment. Four days later, on the morning of January 17, 2017, Moses transported Foster’s torso and limbs to the Bronx for disposal at a garbage transfer station. After disposing of most of Foster’s body parts, Moses texted another victim that he was on his way home from the Bronx and, “Just did 110 over the Brooklyn bridge.” Foster’s head, hands and feet – including a foot with the name “Somorie” tattooed on it – were subsequently recovered by law enforcement inside the freezer of Moses’s apartment. Foster was 32-years-old at the time of her murderⁱ.

Somorie Moses was sentenced by United States District Judge Carol Bagley Amon to 10 terms of life imprisonment to run concurrently for each of the 10 counts of conviction for sex trafficking eight women and for committing the January 2017 murder of one of the women, Leondra Foster. At the sentencing hearing, the Court heard victim impact statements from several of the defendant’s victims. This prosecution is the first use of the federal statute criminalizing murder in the course of sex trafficking. Moses pleaded guilty to the charges in September 2023.

The federal statute used in the case of Somorie Moses is groundbreaking. It marks the first prosecution of a federal law criminalizing murder during sex trafficking. This case relied on a federal statute that specifically addresses murder committed during sex trafficking. ‘Sex trafficking is a modern form of slavery that uses violence and fear to force vulnerable individuals to work for someone else’s profit – in this case resulting in the alleged brutal murder of one of the victims,’ said United States Attorney Breon Peace. It's a significant legal development aimed at combating exploitation and violence against vulnerable individuals.

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