February 11, 1999

MEDICAL RESIDENT INDICTED FOR ASSAULTING AND DRUGGING FORMER GIRLFRIEND

Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced today that a second year medical resident has been indicted by a Queens Grand Jury for assaulting and drugging his former girlfriend.

District Attorney Brown identified the defendant as Mark Redeker, 32, of 83-80 118th Street, Jamaica. He was indicted for assault in the second degree, rendering someone unconscious by administering a drug and unauthorized practice of medicine. If convicted, he faces 2 to 7 years in prison.

According to District Attorney Brown, the defendant is a second year Ob/GYN resident at Jamaica Hospital who may practice medicine only under supervision at the hospital facility. According to the charges, the defendant was involved in a relationship with the victim and she had informed him that she believed she was pregnant with his child and wanted to have the baby even though the defendant did not want her to do so. On the evening of August 30, 1998, it is alleged that he injected the victim with a hypodermic needle containing a powerful sedative. The following morning the victim was removed to Jamaica Hospital having suffered a miscarriage.

The defendant will be arraigned on the indictment on March 3.

Assistant District Attorney Erin R. Apfel of the District Attorney's Special Victims Bureau, under the supervision of Bureau Chief Marjory D. Fisher, is in charge of the case.

It is to be noted that an arrest is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.