Sex offender 'dismembered his girlfriend then forced a sanitation worker to help him dispose of her remaining body parts after he stashed her head and feet in his freezer'
- Somorie Moses, 40, was arraigned Thursday on a second-degree murder charge in the slaying of Leondra Foster, 32
- Moses was initially arrested on charges of concealment of a human corpse and tampering with evidence
- Police found Foster's head, hands and feet stuffed in a freezer at Moses' Brooklyn home
- Victim's torso and a leg was discovered last Tuesday on Halleck Street in The Bronx
- Police say Foster, a mother of 16-year-old girl, died of blunt force trauma; her family say she had been subjected to months of domestic abuse
- Moses is a registered Level 2 sex offender who was convicted in 2006 of promoting prostitution of a girl younger than 16
A convicted sex offender has been charged with murdering and dismembering his girlfriend, whose head was found in his freezer in Brooklyn and other body parts were dumped in The Bronx.
Somorie Moses, 40, was initially arrested on criminal counts of concealment of a human corpse and tampering with evidence.
But on Thursday he was arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal County on an upgraded charge of second-degree murder and held without bail.
Moses is accused of killing 32-year-old mother-of-one Leondra Foster, butchering her body and then disposing of her torso and a leg at a trash-sorting facility with the help of a sanitation worker.
Suspect charged: Registered sex offender Somorie Moses, 40, has now been charged with second-degree murder in the killing of his girlfriend, 32-year-old Leondra Foster (right)
Gruesome mystery: A torso and leg belonging to Leondra Foster were found the Metropolitan Transfer Station in the Hunts Points section of The Bronx
The New York Daily News reported that Moses allegedly coerced the unidentified man into helping him conceal Fosters' remains in heaps of trash at the Metropolitan Transfer Station in the Hunts Points section of The Bronx last week.
The sanitation employee was said to be cooperating with the investigation.
Fosters’ head, hands and feet were later found stuffed inside the freezer in Moses' apartment in the Flatbush, leading to his arrest on Sunday. One foot had Moses' name tattooed on it, the New York Post revealed.
Officers conducting a search of Moses' apartment also found blood spatter around the residence and men's and women's clothing soaked in blood.
Police reportedly said Foster died of multiple blunt force trauma.
‘We in Brooklyn will seek justice for Leondra Foster, who was so tragically and brutally murdered," acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement. ‘Somorie Moses is now charged with second-degree murder for that heinous crime.’
Horrifying discovery: Foster's (left and right) dismembered head and feet were allegedly found in Moses' freezer. younger sister, Shanicqua Figueroa, described her sibling as a loving person who had found herself trapped in an abusive relationship
Foster's family members attended Somorie Moses' arraignment Thursday and later spoke to DNAInfo New York about their loss.
Leondra's younger sister, Shanicqua Figueroa, described her sibling as a loving person who had found herself trapped in an abusive relationship with Moses, who allegedly beat her on a regular basis.
'I hope he gets life without parole and gets everything that's coming to him,' she said.
The victim's mother, Sandra Figueroa, has vowed to attend every one of Moses' court appearance, rain or shine.
During a press conference held the day before, Figueroa tearfully said that it is difficult for her to look at her 16-year-old granddaughter because she looks so much like her murdered mother, reported NBC New York.
In an interview with the New York Post Tuesday, Leondra's father, Kenneth Foster, claimed that his daughter had been subjected to months of domestic abuse at the hands of her boyfriend, Moses, before her killing and dismemberment
‘He has a thing against women,’ Foster said of the suspect. ‘We tried to get her to leave him, but she would just get mad at us.’
The bereaved father called Somorie Moses 'an animal’ and said he deserved medieval torture for the rest of his days.
Somorie Moses' arrest came just days after workers at the Metropolitan Transfer Station on Halleck Street in the Hunts Points section of The Bronx came upon a female torso and a leg without a foot in the trash.
A cadaver dog is pictured scouring the trash-sorting plant in Hunts Point
Employees at the privately owned Metropolitan Transfer Station unearthed a woman's torso and leg at 4.40am last Tuesday and notified the NYPD.
Waste from all areas across the city ends up at the Bronx facility, where it is collected and destroyed.
Crime scene investigators later found additional human remains, including a right arm and a left arm, both without hands, in Kearny, New Jersey, according to NBC4.
Police say they used surveillance video at the Hunts Point waste-processing plant and phone records to identify and track down Moses to his apartment on Erasmus Street in Brooklyn.
Crime scene: Police executing a search warrant at Moses' apartment on Erasmus Street in Brooklyn (pictured) say they found a woman's head, hands and feet inside his freezer
Moses is a registered Level 2 sex offender who was convicted in 2006 on charges of promoting prostitution of a girl younger than 16 and profiting from prostitution.
His criminal record also includes no fewer than eight arrests on charges that included rape and patronizing a prostitute.
In 2003, Moses was picked up in connection to a non-fatal shooting incident. He was released from prison in 2016 after serving more than three years on an unrelated weapons charge, according to amNY.
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