West Point Cadet Drugged Pregnant Girlfriend, Forced Abortion on Her While She Was Unconscious: Complaint

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A woman has filed a lawsuit against her ex-boyfriend accusing him of assault and battery for forcing an abortion on her in February 2022 while they were both cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point

Caleb Suh was charged with one count of assault within a maritime and territorial jurisdiction in June and pleaded guilty

The woman’s attorney said she “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” and pledged to aggressively pursue justice

A woman has filed a lawsuit against her ex-boyfriend who admitted in June to forcing an abortion on her in 2022 while they were both cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Caleb Suh was charged with one count of assault within a maritime and territorial jurisdiction in June and pleaded guilty the same month, according to the complaint filed Wednesday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan. The complaint accuses Suh of assault and battery.

The woman, identified in the complaint as Jane Doe, was a freshman at West Point in October 2020 when she and Suh began dating, according to the complaint. Suh was a sophomore at the time and West Point had assigned him to be her team leader.

Around January 2022, she learned she was pregnant. Suh demanded that she terminate the pregnancy and told her he would take his own life if she did not get an abortion, according to the complaint. Jane Doe would not terminate the pregnancy.

Suh pretended to be supportive of the pregnancy, but unbeknownst to Jane Doe, he used her identification to open an account in her name with an online pharmacy, according to the complaint. From there, he obtained a prescription for abortion medication that he had shipped to West Point, he admitted in June at his plea hearing, according to the complaint. He also admitted to obtaining Xanax through a friend.

The complaint alleges he impersonated Jane Doe on the pharmacy’s online forum and asked whether she would “feel the pills in my vagina” and whether she could break the pills up and drink them in water, instead of swallowing them.

“In order to deceive her, I led her to believe that I had come to support her pregnancy when, in fact, I did not,” he said in court in June, according to the complaint.

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On Feb. 4, 2022, Suh visited Jane Doe in her barracks, where he encouraged her to drink a “prenatal protein shake” that had been spiked with Xanax, according to the complaint.

After she became incapacitated, Suh administered the abortion pills, according to his admissions in court. The complaint says he shoved the pills into her vagina and mouth. At one point, she woke up and felt an odd sensation in her gums, the complaint says. She had two pills in her mouth and spit them out but Suh grabbed the pills and tried to put them back in her mouth, the complaint alleges, telling her, “eat this, it’s good for you.”

The complaint says he left her about 11 p.m. and returned to his barracks room. Around midnight, Jane Doe woke up in pain, vomiting and experiencing diarrhea. She “stumbled to the bathroom where the bright lights showed she was profusely bleeding from her vagina,” the complaint says. Fearing she was having a miscarriage, Jane Doe attempted to contact Suh, but he did not respond, according to the complaint. She called 911, was taken to two hospitals and ultimately had a miscarriage.

The complaint alleges that while Suh ignored Jane Doe’s attempts to reach him, he posted on the pharmacy’s online forum: “They moved me to another hospital, and I think they are going to do a procedure to get rid of the remains in my uterus. Will they say anything if they see the remaining pills in there? Will I have to tell them that it was self-induced?”

After she was discharged, the complaint says, Jane Doe tried to show Suh the paperwork about her miscarriage and he took the packet and threw it in the trash can. A few weeks later, in March 2022, the two broke up. That May, Jane Doe reported what she had experienced to the Army Criminal Investigation Division at West Point. The outcome of that investigation is unclear.

Jane Doe lived in fear of Suh after her miscarriage, according to her complaint, which says her life “has been irreparably changed.”

Suh went on to attend Cornell, “positioning himself as a champion of public health,” according to the complaint. He graduated this year with a bachelor’s degree from Cornell, where he was a member of the university’s Center for Health Equity. Suh received a scholarship to attend a master’s degree program at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, where he is currently enrolled, the complaint says.

Last month, Suh asked the judge overseeing his case to postpone his sentencing to January 2027, in part to permit him to complete the semester at Columbia, the complaint says.

An attorney for Suh, Columbia and West Point did not immediately reply to a request for comment Monday. Russell Kornblith, one of Jane Doe’s attorneys, 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.”

“We are outraged on her behalf and plan to aggressively pursue justice,” Kornblith said.

Cornell University issued a statement to PEOPLE, saying, in part, “When this individual accepted admission as a transfer student in the 2023-2024 cycle, they answered ‘No’ to the question asking if they had been found responsible for a disciplinary violation at any previous educational institution.

“At the time of the application, the individual’s previous university reported that the student had been in good academic standing and was eligible to return to that institution.

“At our medical college, he was a brief temporary employee who left several months ago.”

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