According to the August 7, 2023 press release from Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz, Dr. Zhi Alan Cheng, 33, was arraigned on a 50-count indictment charging him with sexually abusing three patients at New York-Presbyterian Queens hospital and raping three other women in his Queens home. Cheng was previously indicted in December 2022 for allegedly raping a female acquaintance in his apartment.
Cheng is also accused in the latest indictment of drugging the women he allegedly raped in his apartment and with filming the assaults. Additionally, Cheng is charged with filming his alleged sexual abuse of the hospital patients, all of whom appeared to be unconscious in videos recovered from the defendant. In addition to the victims who have been identified, the videos seized from Cheng depict more than six other women being sexually assaulted, including one at New York-Presbyterian Queens.
Cheng was indicted by a grand jury and arraigned on ten counts of predatory sexual assault, three counts of rape in the first degree, seven counts of sexual abuse in the first degree, four counts of assault in the second degree, three counts of criminal sexual act in the first degree, eleven counts of unlawful surveillance in the second degree, eight counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, and four counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree.
Cheng was charged in a previous eleven-count indictment, after his arrest on December 27, 2022, with two counts of rape in the first degree, criminal sexual act in the first degree, two counts of assault in the second degree, two counts of sexual abuse in the first degree and four counts of unlawful surveillance in the second degree. He was accused of drugging and raping a female acquaintance at his Queens home. As a result, Cheng’s ability to practice medicine has been suspended by New York. He has been held without bail since his arrest.
Cheng faces multiple 25 years to life sentences if convicted.
District Attorney Katz stated in the press release: “The recovered evidence compiled paints the picture of a sexual predator of the absolute worst kind, a serial rapist, someone willing to not only violate his sacred professional oath and patients’ trust, but every standard of human decency, as well. We will present the facts to a jury and achieve justice for the victims of the horrific assaults captured on video.”
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