EX-WEST POINT CADET ADMITS DRUGGING PREGNANT GIRLFRIEND
Former West Point cadet Caleb T. Suh pleaded guilty to federal assault for sedating his pregnant girlfriend, a fellow cadet, so he could give her abortion pills without her knowing. She has now sued him, alleging she lost a pregnancy she wanted to keep, and says he pushed for the abortion and threatened suicide if she refused.
Suh is the son of US Department of Veterans Chief of Staff Dr. Ryung Suh, according to the New York Post. The woman is identified in court papers only as Jane Doe.
According to the complaint, the two began dating as cadets in October 2020. She learned she was pregnant around January 2022. The lawsuit says she wanted to keep the baby, while Suh was staunchly opposed and “even threatened to commit suicide if she did not terminate the pregnancy.”
The suit alleges he then pretended to support her and the pregnancy. Behind her back, he allegedly stole her identity, opened a fake account with an online pharmacy, ordered abortion pills in her name and had them shipped to West Point.
What the lawsuit says happened that day
The Associated Press, reporting on court records, puts the assault in March 2022. In his guilty plea, Suh admitted getting Xanax from a friend.
“My intent was [to] use the Xanax to unwittingly sedate my girlfriend so that I could then administer the abortion pills, which I had obtained via the online pharmacy,” he admitted.
The lawsuit says he told her the drink was a “special pregnancy protein powder” shake. The Post reports the shake was also laced with Promethazine. She allegedly hated the taste, but Suh held the bottle against her lips and made her finish it.
She spent the next few hours sick and drifting in and out of consciousness, the suit says. She recalled Suh touching her vagina. She also remembered finding two pills in her mouth and spitting them out, only for Suh to allegedly push them back in.
“Eat this,” he allegedly told her. “It’s good for you.”
According to the lawsuit, “Suh shoved abortion pills into Ms. Doe’s vagina and in her mouth” while she was out.
When she woke up, she was bleeding heavily. She tried to call Suh, who did not answer, and then called 911. The suit says doctors confirmed a miscarriage and performed a D&C to remove the fetal remains.
Suh, meanwhile, was allegedly still ignoring her calls and posting on the pharmacy’s forums. The suit says he worried about what to do if doctors “see the remaining pills” inside her. The two broke up soon afterward.
Cornell, Columbia and the guilty plea
Suh went on to earn his undergraduate degree at Cornell, where he studied emergency medicine, and enrolled in the master’s program at Columbia University’s school of public health. A source told the Post that Columbia did not know about his conviction until the media began asking questions. Applications do not ask about criminal history, the source said, and the school then “took swift action.” The source did not say what that meant.
Suh was charged in Manhattan federal court before his first semester at Columbia, and pleaded guilty to felony assault in June 2026. He told the judge he was “deeply and immeasurably sorry for my actions and the pain that I have caused,” according to the AP. His lawyer, Thomas Kenniff, who previously defended Daniel Penny, declined to comment to the AP.
Jane Doe filed her civil lawsuit on October 28, 2026, in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, the AP reports. It alleges assault and battery and seeks unspecified damages.
“For years, Ms. Doe has been forced to grapple with her experience,” the suit says. “Ms. Doe’s life has been irreparably changed, and she has lost a baby that she intended to keep.”
Her lawyer, Russell Kornblith, said in a statement to the Post: “As a parent it is difficult not to be incredibly emotionally drained by thinking about what our client has experienced both by the loss of a pregnancy she intended to keep and being robbed of autonomy over her own body.”
Suh asked to push back his sentencing so he could finish his semester without interruption, and the judge agreed. Sentencing is now set for January 2027, and prosecutors are seeking two years in prison.
