A former Queens doctor who raped at least eight women, some of whom came to him as patients, was sentenced to 24 years in prison at Queens Criminal Court on Thursday.

While the Queens district attorney praised the quarter-century sentence for disgraced gastroenterologist Zhi Alan Cheng, several of the women he preyed upon said prosecutors had let their abuser escape with a “sweetheart” deal that will allow him to leave prison by the time he turns 60, and that lets his former employer, NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, off the hook entirely.

“It’s sickening,” said Nicholas Liakas, an attorney who is representing a number of Cheng’s victims in several different active civil lawsuits against the doctor and the hospital system he used to work for.

“This tells everyone in Queens and anyone who’s

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