A West Point cadet fed his pregnant girlfriend a sedative-laced smoothie and “shoved abortion pills” into her vagina, killing the fetus — then enrolled in Columbia University’s public-health masters program, a new lawsuit says.
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lawsuit → feed → program
Disgraced former army cadet Caleb T. Suh — the son of US Department of Veterans Chief of Staff Dr. Ryung Suh — already admitted in federal court that he deliberately tricked his then-girlfriend into chugging what he assured her was a “special pregnancy protein powder” shake in 2022, according to the lawsuit and his guilty plea.
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he → admit → lawsuit
The ailing woman, also a cadet, was overcome with drowsiness, and that’s when “Suh shoved abortion pills into Ms. Doe’s vagina and in her mouth,” according to the suit.
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Suh → ail → suit
The woman went on to lose the baby she had hoped to keep — while Suh ended up studying emergency medicine at Cornell University in upstate New York and received a bachelor’s degree from the Ivy League school in 2024, court documents said.
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documents → go → 2024
The defendant was eventually charged in the disturbing case this past spring and pleaded guilty to felony assault in June — repped by lawyer Thomas Kenniff, who previously defended infamous deadly Manhattan subway vigilante Daniel Penny.
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who → charge → Penny
He is awaiting sentencing.
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He → await → sentencing
Suh then enrolled in the prestigious master’s program at Ivy League Columbia in Manhattan, the suit said.
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suit → enrol → Manhattan
A source with knowledge of the situation said Columbia was unaware of Suh’s criminal conviction before the media recently began inquiring about his case, noting that applications do not ask for disclosures of criminality.
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applications → say → criminality
The source said that after learning of Suh’s past, the school “took swift action” — but did not specify what that meant.
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that → say → what
“For years, Ms. Doe has been forced to grapple with her experience,” the lawsuit said.
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lawsuit → force → experience
“Ms. Doe’s life has been irreparably changed, and she has lost a baby that she intended to keep.
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she → change → that
“Meanwhile, Defendant Suh matriculated at Cornell University, earned a Bachelor’s degree, and is now enrolled at Columbia University.
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Suh → matriculate → University
It is unclear whether either Suh or the woman — both of whom would be in their 20s — ever graduated from West Point.
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both → graduate → Point
The pair had started dating while enrolled at West Point in 2020, with the anonymous woman discovering she was pregnant in 2022, the suit claimed.
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suit → start → 2022
While she wanted to keep the pregnancy, Suh was staunchly opposed and “even threatened to commit suicide if she did not terminate the pregnancy,” the suit said.
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suit → want → pregnancy
Suh then began feigning support for her and the baby — even as he obtained the abortion pills by stealing her identity and opening a fake account with an online pharmacy, ordering the drugs in her name and having them shipped to West point, according to his plea and the suit.
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them → begin → plea
“I also obtained Xanax through a friend,” Suh admitted in his guilty plea.
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Suh → obtain → plea
“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.
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I → use → pharmacy
He even asked questions on the pharmacy’s online forum, including “[W]ill I feel the pills in my vaginia?”
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I → ask → vaginia
Suh eventually gave the pregnant young woman what he called a “special pregnancy protein powder” laced with the sedatives, the suit said.
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suit → give → sedatives
It’s unclear how far along she was in the pregnancy at the time.
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she → ’ → time
Despite the woman’s revulsion at the taste of the drink, Suh insisted she finish it, “holding the bottle against her lips and forcing her to drink it,” according to court papers.
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she → insist → papers
She spent the next few hours sick and incapacitated, floating in and out of consciousness.
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She → spend → consciousness
At some point, she recalled Suh “began touching her vagina,” the suit claimed.
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suit → recall → vagina
She also remembered finding two pills in her mouth and spat them out, but Suh shoved them back in, the filing said.
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filing → remember → them
“Eat this,” Suh allegedly urged her.
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Suh → eat → her
“It’s good for you.”
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It → ’ → you
When she awoke, the young woman discovered she was “profusely bleeding from her vagina,” according to the suit, and, fearing a miscarriage, tried to call Suh, but he didn’t answer.
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he → awake → Suh
The woman 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.
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suit → call → remains
But Suh, still ignoring calls from the woman he drugged, was worried about being discovered and continued posting on the pharmacy forums about what to do if the doctors “see the remaining pills” in her vagina, the lawsuit said.
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lawsuit → ignore → vagina
The two broke up soon after and Suh went on to finish his undergraduate degree at Cornell, enrolling the fall of 2024 — the same semester where a horrific frat house gang rape allegedly occurred — and began studying emergency medicine, claiming his long-term goal was to “become a physician leader committed to advancing both patient care and structural equity.”
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goal → break → care
His former girlfriend’s lawyer, Russell Kornblith, said in a statement, “As a parent it is difficult not to be incredibly emotionally drained by thinking about what our client has experienced both by the loss of a pregnancy she intended to keep and being robbed of autonomy over her own body.”
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she → say → body
His client is allowed to remain anonymous at least for now — which is typical for sex accusers — but a judge could decide down the road to make her name public if the defendant successfully makes a case for it.
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defendant → allow → it
Suh was charged in Manhattan Federal Court, before to his first semester at Columbia, and pled guilty in June.
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Suh → charge → June
Several weeks ago, he asked to delay his sentencing until January, so he could finish his semester without interruption.
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he → ask → interruption
The request was granted, and prosecutors are seeking two years behind bars.
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prosecutors → grant → bars
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