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    Pimp (Somorie Moses, 43) who kept dead girlfriend?s head (Leondra Foster, 32) in freezer gets light prison sentence

    https://nypost.com/2020/01/17/pimp-w...ison-sentence/

    The Brooklyn pimp who was convicted last year of dismembering his prostitute girlfriend and keeping her head in his freezer was sentenced to four to eight years in prison on Friday after hearing a statement from the victim's family in which they branded him an 'evil monster.'

    Somorie Moses, 43, was convicted in November of negligent homicide for the Jan. 12, 2017 killing of 32-year-old Leondra Foster and concealing her dismembered corpse ' disposing of portions in a Bronx trash dump and keeping others in his freezer.

    But a Brooklyn jury let Moses, a registered sex offender who went by the handle 'Sugar Bear,' skate on a second-degree murder charge when it handed up its verdict, which means he can spend no more than eight years in prison for his ghoulish deed.

    Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Ruth Shillingford gave Moses two-to-four year sentences on each count ' and told Moses she hopes he will end up doing the longest possible sentence.

    'It is the court's hope and intention that you serve the full eight years, no less,' the judge said.

    Shillingford also said that, when Moses took the stand in his own defense during his three-week trial, he calmly discussed emotionally and physically abusing Foster and threatening to kill her.

    'The admission with respect to the physical abuse that he rained down on her, as if it's of course part of the game, it's part of what you do,' the judge said. 'I suppose that served to dehumanize her when you took four hours to decapitate and destroy her.'

    After Shillingford meted out her sentence, Assistant District Attorney Sabeeha Madni read a victim impact statement from Foster's family in which they said they are left with Foster's final moments of 'agony' and 'terror.'

    'She was reduced to the girlfriend of an evil monster,' the statement read. Moses, dressed in a white T-shirt and tan jail-issued pants, did not visibly react to the sentence. He answered 'No, ma'am' when Shillingford asked if he had anything to add.

    Julie Clark, Moses' lawyer, argued throughout the trial that Foster was using meth in the hours before her death and that she was assaulted by a john who solicited her services in the Flatbush apartment where Moses and Foster lived together.

    Medical examiners determined that Foster died of blunt force trauma.

    After the alleged attack, Moses' lawyer argued, Foster fell in the shower multiple times. During the trial, Clark denied that Moses killed Foster ' but did not dispute that her client chopped up Foster and got rid of her torso by handing it off to an old acquaintance who worked as a commercial trash hauler.

    Clark said that Moses, a sex trafficker with a criminal record who kept cocaine and a gun at his apartment, wanted to avoid getting the police involved.

    'We admitted that right from our opening statements and we never deviated from that,' Clark said at the sentencing.



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    Brooklyn pimp ‘Sugar Bear’ admits to chopping up girlfriend, but not killing her: lawyer

    https://nypost.com/2019/10/31/brookl...ng-her-lawyer/

    He’s not a murderer — he just had a severed head in his freezer.

    A Brooklyn pimp on trial for slaying his prostitute girlfriend and then butchering her body insists he didn’t kill the woman — he just chopped up her corpse and stashed her head in his freezer because he “didn’t want to be blamed” for her death.

    A lawyer for Somorie Moses — also known as “Sugar Bear” — gave the novel defense during the opening statements of his Brooklyn Supreme Court trial for allegedly killing his gal pal Leondra Foster, then slicing her into nine pieces in 2017.

    “Mr. Moses cut up her body,” Julie Clark told the Brooklyn jury. “He didn’t want to go to jail. He didn’t want to be blamed. He had no motive to kill his moneymaker.”

    “He is not a nice man,” she conceded. “He is not someone you want your daughter … to date. You don’t have to like his lifestyle.”

    Clark did not provide an alternate explanation for the 32-year-old Foster’s death.

    Moses, 43, is charged with second-degree murder and concealment of a corpse in Foster’s Jan. 12, 2017, beating death inside his Flatbush apartment.

    He allegedly threw Foster’s torso and other body parts into a garbage truck headed to a Bronx trash dump, but kept her head, hands and feet in his kitchen freezer.

    Police closed in on Moses after finding the body parts at a Bronx waste transfer station, and tracing them to his apartment — where they allegedly found splattered blood and Moses’ frozen appendages.

    They were found under a pile of frozen food and meats, authorities said.

    He was charged with concealing the body parts 10 days after the slaying, as police continued their investigation into the grisly crime. Four days later, prosecutors charged him with her murder.

    On Thursday, Assistant District Attorney Sabeeha Madni alleged Moses had searched terms like “head trauma,” “dilated pupils” and “cleaning agents” online after the killing.

    Madni said he used a rip saw to cut up the body, and later texted a neighborhood pal who worked for a private trash hauler.

    “I have a favor to ask,” he allegedly wrote. “I want to get rid of some garbage.”

    Moses later met up with the friend while he was on his trash route and took several garbage bags from the trunk of his car and chucked them into the truck, she told the court.

    “You better help me or you’re going to end up like her,” Moses allegedly warned him.

    The man is now a cooperating witness in the case against Moses. Prosecutors said he is among 30 witnesses they will call at the trial, which is expected to last three weeks.

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