Overview

• He admitted to seven counts of rape and sexual abuse and entered an Alford plea on an eighth count related to another victim.
• Prosecutors said he used anesthetics and illicit drugs to render at least seven women unconscious before assaulting them in his Astoria apartment or at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens hospital.
• Authorities recovered digital evidence of the assaults and seized a cache of controlled substances including fentanyl, ketamine, propofol, LSD and MDMA.
• Cheng has been held without bail since his December 2022 arrest and was stripped of his medical license by state health authorities.
• Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz and hospital officials have called for increased vigilance and oversight to prevent similar abuses.