A Bronx doctor pleaded guilty yesterday to assault charges for viciously and repeatedly stabbing his pregnant lover with a drug-filled syringe in an attempt to kill the fetus.
In a plea bargain, Dr. Stephen Pack, 44, pleaded guilty to assault and abortion charges. He will get no more than three years in prison when he is sentenced by Justice Ira Globerman on March 16.
Pack, who stood silently in a Bronx courtroom with his hands folded in front of him, did not make a statement while admitting his guilt as Joy Schepis, 31, the mother of his 2-month-old son, looked on from the second row without expression.
Pack, who initially pleaded not guilty, faced up to seven years in prison if convicted at trial on two counts of assault and a single count of abortion – a little-known state law forbidding an abortion to be performed on a woman without her permission. He had planned a temporary-insanity defense.
“I’m very glad that he’s finally accepted responsibility for his actions,” Schepis, who delivered a healthy baby boy named Michael last Nov. 28, told The Post.
Pack, who attacked Schepis last April in the parking lot of Montefiore Hospital, repeatedly stabbed her in the buttocks and thigh with the syringe as she left work.
The needle used in the attack was later found to have contained a drug that can trigger contractions in pregnant women.