Crazy stroller pusher Sam Mensah confesses to a series of bizarre attacks in NYC and now faces five years in prison

A crazed stroller pusher who shoved and spat on strangers in a series of attacks in New York City accepted a deal with prosecutors on Monday – and now faces five years in prison.

Sam Mensah, 33, pleaded guilty to assault in Manhattan Supreme Court shortly before he goes on trial this week for the 2023 assault of at least five women on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, prosecutors said.

Mensah, who had been arrested nearly a dozen times before, became a popular neighborhood hangout for months because of his violent, unprovoked attacks. Surveillance footage shows him pushing a young boy in a black Bravo stroller during the attacks.

In September 2023, he was finally caught for shoving a 64-year-old grandmother near East 77th Street and Third Avenue so hard that she scraped her knees and ripped her clothes.

His attorney, Raymond Loving, was shocked by Mensah’s decision to plead guilty. Loving described Mensah as an overprotective father and said he planned to argue that his client had felt threatened by one of his victims – a 68-year-old lawyer he beat unconscious in one of the attacks.

“We wanted to argue that he acted in self-defense of his son because the (68-year-old) man came very close to the stroller that his son was in and he could reasonably believe that the guy would somehow endanger his son,” Loving said.

Mensah was also accused of hitting someone in the face with a shopping basket at a grocery store and punching a 16-year-old girl.

In another attack, he spat in a reporter’s eye as she walked her dog at the corner of East 85th Street and York Avenue, prosecutors said.

Judge Felicia Mennin ordered Mensah remanded in custody pending sentencing on September 5.