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14-08-2023, 11:31 AM
Victoria Bekiempis in New York
Sat 12 Aug 2023 12.00 BST
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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What is even more shocking about Cheng’s arrest is that the charges come in the wake of numerous prosecutions of other prominent doctors in New York and across the US on similar allegations that they violated patients at their most vulnerable moments – in a medical setting, where an inherent power imbalance puts them all the more at risk.
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News of the allegations against Cheng come two weeks after former Manhattan ob-gyn Robert Hadden was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for sexually abusing numerous patients.
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In April, the Manhattan US attorney’s office announced charges against New York City-region urologist Darius Paduch. They allege that between 2015 and 2019, Paduch “enticed and induced multiple victims to travel to his medical offices at Medical Institution-1, so Paduch could, among other things, sexually abuse the victims,” including minors.
Ricardo Cruciani, a New York City neurologist, was convicted in July 2022 for sexually abusing six patients.
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“They’re sick, but they’re not the problem. They’re just a symptom,” said attorney Anthony DiPietro, who represents many of Hadden’s survivors. “The problem is the institutions that cover this up, that lie to patients, that gaslight then and don’t report the abuse to the state like they’re required to do.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...llegations
Sat 12 Aug 2023 12.00 BST
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.
......
What is even more shocking about Cheng’s arrest is that the charges come in the wake of numerous prosecutions of other prominent doctors in New York and across the US on similar allegations that they violated patients at their most vulnerable moments – in a medical setting, where an inherent power imbalance puts them all the more at risk.
......
News of the allegations against Cheng come two weeks after former Manhattan ob-gyn Robert Hadden was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for sexually abusing numerous patients.
......
In April, the Manhattan US attorney’s office announced charges against New York City-region urologist Darius Paduch. They allege that between 2015 and 2019, Paduch “enticed and induced multiple victims to travel to his medical offices at Medical Institution-1, so Paduch could, among other things, sexually abuse the victims,” including minors.
Ricardo Cruciani, a New York City neurologist, was convicted in July 2022 for sexually abusing six patients.
......
“They’re sick, but they’re not the problem. They’re just a symptom,” said attorney Anthony DiPietro, who represents many of Hadden’s survivors. “The problem is the institutions that cover this up, that lie to patients, that gaslight then and don’t report the abuse to the state like they’re required to do.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...llegations
