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A woman has filed a lawsuit against her ex-boyfriend, accusing him of assault and battery after he forced abortion pills on her while they were both cadets at West Point’s U.S. Military Academy.
Caleb T. Suh was charged with one count of assault within a maritime and territorial jurisdiction in June and pleaded guilty that same month, according to the complaint filed last Wednesday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, per People .
The woman, identified in the complaint as Jane Doe, was a freshman and Suh was a sophomore who was assigned as her team leader when they began dating in October 2020.
More than a year later, around January 2022, Doe discovered she was pregnant.
Suh, the son of VA Washington DC Healthcare System Chief of Staff Dr. Ryung Suh, demanded she terminate the pregnancy and threatened to take his own life if she did not get an abortion, according to the complaint.
Doe refused.
‘Unwittingly sedate my girlfriend’
Suh eventually pretended to support her having a baby but he also stole her identification to open a fake account with an online pharmacy, according to the complaint, from which he ordered abortion medication in her name and had them shipped to West Point.
He also admitted to obtaining Xanax through 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 in his plea hearing in June.
“In order to deceive her, I led her to believe that I had come to support her pregnancy when, in fact, I did not.”
The complaint alleges that Suh impersonated Doe and asked questions on the pharmacy’s online forum, including “[Will] I feel the pills in my vagina?” and whether the pills could be broken up and drunk in water rather than swallowed.
Forcing her to chug a sedative-laced shake
Suh eventually gave the pregnant woman what he called a “prenatal protein shake” laced with Xanax, the lawsuit said.
Despite her aversion to the taste, Suh insisted she finish it, “holding the bottle against her lips and forcing her to drink it,” according to the court document.
After hours of being sick and while slowly losing consciousness, Suh administered the abortion pills into her vagina and mouth, according to his own admission.
She remembered finding two pills in her mouth and spat them out, Doe said in the complaint, but Suh shoved them back in and allegedly told her, “Eat this, it’s good for you.”
When she awoke, the woman discovered she was “profusely bleeding from her vagina,” and fearing she was having a miscarriage, she tried to call Suh, but he didn’t answer.
Doe called 911, and doctors confirmed she was suffering a miscarriage, and she was given a D&C to remove the fetus’s remains, her suit said.
Suh, meanwhile, was ignoring his girlfriend’s calls and asking on the online pharmacy’s forum about what to do if doctors “see the remaining pills” in her vagina, the lawsuit said.
‘Champion of public health’
The two broke up a few weeks after and Doe reported what she had experienced to the Army Criminal Investigation Division at West Point.
The outcome of that investigation is unclear.
Doe said in the complaint that she has lived in fear of Suh ever since the assault, and that the miscarriage left her life “irreparably changed.”
Suh went on to finish his undergraduate degree at Cornell University, enrolling in the fall of 2024 and studying emergency medicine, “positioning himself as a champion of public health,” according to the suit.
He is currently enrolled at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health after receiving a scholarship to attend a master’s degree program.
Pleaded guilty
Suh was charged in Manhattan Federal Court before his first semester at Columbia and pleaded guilty in June.
Last month, he asked the judge overseeing his case to postpone his sentencing until January 2027, in part to permit him to complete the semester at Columbia, according to the complaint.
The request was granted.
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Doe’s lawyer, Russell Kornblith, said in a statement to People that his client “was forced to endure an unimaginable trauma and was robbed of a pregnancy she wanted, while Mr. Suh has since managed to attend not one, but two Ivy League schools.”
He added: “We are outraged on her behalf and plan to aggressively pursue justice.”
Prosecutors are seeking two years behind bars.