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Victoria Bekiempis in New York

Medical centers in spotlight as another US doctor accused of sexual abuse

Sexual assault survivors Amy Yoney, right, and Laurie Kanyok, left, speak to members of the media during the trial of Robert Hadden in New York.
Sexual assault survivors Amy Yoney, right, and Laurie Kanyok, left, speak to members of the media during the trial of Robert Hadden in New York. Photograph: John Minchillo/AP

When prosecutors last week announced a litany of sexual crime charges against the New York City doctor Zhi Alan Cheng, their allegations presented a shocking description of apparent serial predation.

Cheng, a gastroenterologist at New York-Presbyterian-Queens hospital, stands accused of sexually abusing three patients at the medical center – and raping three other women in his apartment.

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