A former West Point cadet who admitted secretly drugging his pregnant girlfriend and giving her abortion medication without her knowledge or consent is facing a lawsuit over the 2022 incident.
The woman, identified in court filings as Jane Doe, sued Caleb T. Suh in New York Supreme Court on Oct. 28. She accuses him of assault and battery and is seeking damages.
Doe and Suh were both cadets at the U.S. Military Academy when she found out she was pregnant in January 2022, according to the lawsuit. It says Suh repeatedly urged her to have an abortion, even as she told him she planned to continue the pregnancy.
Suh later appeared to accept her decision, the complaint alleges. But he allegedly used Doe’s personal information to open an online pharmacy account in her name and order abortion medication without telling her.
On Feb. 4, 2022, Suh brought a drink to Doe’s barracks room, describing it as a protein shake for pregnancy, the lawsuit says. After drinking it, she became ill and drifted in and out of consciousness.
Suh later admitted in federal court that he gave Doe abortion medication without her knowledge or consent. She became seriously ill hours later and was taken to a hospital, where doctors confirmed she was miscarrying.
Doe reported what happened to the Army Criminal Investigation Division at West Point in May 2022.
Suh was charged in federal court in June 2026. On June 30, he pleaded guilty to assault resulting in substantial bodily injury to a dating partner.
He admitted using Doe’s identity to set up the online pharmacy account and obtain the medication. He also acknowledged getting Xanax to sedate her before giving her the pills.
“My intent was 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,” Suh said, according to the complaint.
Suh also admitted that he misled Doe into thinking he supported the pregnancy before giving her the medication. He acknowledged that she later miscarried “as a result of the abortion pills that I had administered without her knowledge and consent.”
After leaving West Point, Suh attended Cornell University and graduated in May 2026. He then enrolled in a master’s program at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
A Cornell spokesperson said Suh answered “No” when asked during his transfer application whether he had been found responsible for a disciplinary violation at a previous school. Cornell said the school he attended before West Point reported that he was in good academic standing and eligible to return.
A person familiar with the matter said Columbia did not know Suh’s status until the New York Times contacted the university on Friday, after which the school acted quickly. The person added that Columbia’s application does not ask applicants to disclose prior criminal convictions.
In October, Suh asked a federal judge to delay his sentencing until January 2027, partly so he could finish the semester at Columbia. Prosecutors did not oppose the request, and U.S. District Judge Philip M. Halpern approved it.
Doe is seeking both compensatory and punitive damages.
“Our complaint sets out that our 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,” Russell Kornblith, a partner at Wigdor LLP, said in a statement. “We are outraged on her behalf and plan to aggressively pursue justice.”
West Point and an attorney for Suh did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
