A Queens doctor has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for raping women with whom he was acquainted and sexually abusing female patients at the hospital where he worked.

Zhi Alan Cheng, 35, of Astoria pleaded guilty in June to four counts of first-degree rape and three counts of first-degree sexual abuse a statement from the office of Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said on Thursday.

Cheng a former gastroenterologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens hospital in Flushing, filmed the abuse of his unconscious victims in both his apartment and at the hospital.

His ability to practice medicine has been suspended by the state.

He also entered an Alford plea to one count of sexual abuse, under which he asserted his innocence but acknowledged that the evidence might be enough to get a co

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