A former West Point cadet pleaded guilty to felony assault after sedating his pregnant girlfriend and forcibly inserting abortion pills that killed the unborn child she wanted to keep.
Caleb T. Suh, the disgraced son of VA Washington D.C. Healthcare System Chief of Staff Dr. Ryung Suh, admitted that in early 2022 he tricked his then-girlfriend – a fellow cadet identified in filings as Jane Doe – into drinking what he called a “special pregnancy protein powder” shake. The drink was laced with Xanax and Promethazine. Once she became sick and drifted in and out of consciousness in her barracks room, Suh administered the abortion pills by placing them in her vagina and mouth, according to a New York Post report last week.
Doe had learned she was pregnant in January 2022 and told Suh she intended to keep the baby. He pressured her to abort and “even threatened to commit suicide if she did not terminate the pregnancy,” according to the suit.
Despite Suh being convicted of the premeditated murder of his and Doe’s preborn child, sentencing in the case has been delayed until January so he could finish his current academic semester. The prosecutors are seeking a two-year prison sentence. It also remains unclear if the cadet has faced any military discipline for this serious crime.
After leaving West Point, Suh enrolled at Cornell, graduated in 2024 while studying emergency medicine, and entered Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health master’s program. A source said Columbia was initially unaware of the conviction, but after inquiries “took swift action.”
Doe’s attorney, Russell Kornblith, 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.” The civil suit, filed October 28 in New York Supreme Court, seeks damages for assault and battery.
The case fits a documented pattern in which men exploit easy access to chemical abortion pills and use them as weapons to kill preborn children that their mothers intended to keep.