Ex-girlfriend sues former West Point cadet over alleged drugging and forced abortion
A former West Point cadet who pleaded guilty to assaulting his ex-girlfriend now faces a civil lawsuit from her, alleging he drugged her and forced an abortion in 2022.
A former West Point cadet is facing a civil lawsuit from his ex-girlfriend, who alleges he drugged her and caused her to lose a pregnancy she wanted to keep. The suit was filed on Oct. 28 and seeks unspecified damages; the amount is not stated in the filing. The defendant, Caleb Suh, pleaded guilty in June to assault causing substantial bodily injury to a dating partner, the criminal charge that resolved the case on the prosecution side.
According to the case details, the incident took place in March 2022, when both Suh and the woman were cadets at the military academy. The woman wanted to continue the pregnancy, but Suh did not. The lawsuit alleges that he used her identity to open an online pharmacy account and ordered abortion pills by mail. It further alleges that he obtained Xanax from a friend, that she was sedated, and that she was then given the pills without her consent. The pregnancy ended in a miscarriage, and she was hospitalized.
The woman also alleges that Suh ignored her calls after she began bleeding. The record in the case includes a detail that Suh allegedly searched online to find out whether doctors could detect the drug. That search, along with the pharmacy account and the mailed pills, forms part of the picture the civil complaint presents of what he allegedly did before and after the miscarriage.
Suh later transferred to Cornell University, where he enrolled in 2023 or 2024 and graduated this year. Cornell says he answered “no” on a disciplinary question on his application, a response the university has pointed to in describing his admission. West Point reportedly told reporters that he was in good standing and eligible to return to the academy, a position that stands in contrast to the criminal conviction and the civil allegations. Suh then enrolled in the master's program at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Columbia says its applicants are not asked about criminal records, a policy that shaped how his background came to light at the school.
Suh's sentencing has been postponed to Jan. 21, 2027, at the request of his lawyer. Prosecutors did not oppose the delay, which means the criminal case remains open until that date. In court, Suh told the judge he was “deeply and immeasurably sorry” for his conduct.
The woman is represented by attorney Russell Kornblith. Erin Hawley of the Alliance Defending Freedom is not representing her, although Hawley has argued publicly that an in-person dispensing rule for mifepristone would have prevented the assault. The Food and Drug Administration removed that in-person requirement effective January 2023, after the 2022 incident. The agency had paused enforcement of the rule in 2021, a timeline that Hawley's argument rests on. A separate lawsuit by the Alliance Defending Freedom challenging the FDA change is still pending. Fox News Digital reached out to Suh's attorney and reported no comment.
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