A Predator In A White Coat

In Dececmber of 2022, the Queens district attorney’s office secured a first-degree rape indictment alleging Dr. Cheng used a K-N95 mask filled with cotton balls that had been soaked in an unknown liquid to render a female victim unconscious in his apartment. When she woke up, she allegedly found the video of her own sexual assault. Cheng is currently awaiting trial, held without bond on Rikers Island.

Police said they found multiple videos of Cheng sexually abusing other victims, including the patient.

This not the first time the DA has sued New York-Presbyterian on behalf of people who were sexually assaulted by the hospital staff.

In 2021, Columbia University and New York-Presbyterian came to a $71.5 million settlement with 79 women who were former patients of former gynecologist Robert Hadden, who was convicted this year of sexually assaulting his patients.