✝️ Leondra Foster, age 32 – January 17 2017, New York City, New York, USA 🇺🇸💔
Leondra was mother of a 16 year old.
She was once in a relationship with Somorie Moses, but when she tried to leave, he threatened to kill her.
Leondra was beaten to death by Moses who was her pimp. He decided to conceal her remains instead of contacting the police. The following morning, using a knife and a saw, Moses dismembered her body inside their shared apartment in Brooklyn, New York. Four days later Moses brought her torso and limbs to the Bronx for disposal at a sanitation site. Her head, hands and feet — including a foot with the name “Somorie” tattooed on it — were subsequently recovered by law enforcement inside the deep freezer of Moses’s apartment.
According to court filings, since at least 2003, Moses allegedly forced women and girls, including minors, into prostitution for his benefit using violence, threats of violence, and psychological manipulation. After meeting his victims, Moses used false promises of love and marriage to initiate sexual relationships with them before demanding that they work as prostitutes and turn over the money they earned to him. Moses used brutal beatings, rape, torture, and threats to coerce his victims to work in prostitution in Brooklyn and Queens and to comply with his orders. Moses pressured many of his victims into getting his first name, “Somorie,” tattooed on their bodies.
Moses was sentenced to eight years in prison by a Brooklyn Supreme Court. According to prosecutors Moses forced Leondra in prostitution, which eventually led to a john brutally beating her. Moses claimed he beat up the attacker, then panicked when she died. In 2022 he was then being charged with murdering Leondra and sex trafficking of eight women. Of the nine Jane Does Moses is accused of abusing, two of them “had not yet attained the age of 18.” In the new charge prosecutors argued that Moses did knowingly and intentionally murder an individual, in that the defendant, with malice aforethought, did unlawfully kill Leondra.
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.
