Caleb T. Suh pleaded guilty in June to felony assault after admitting in federal court that he drugged his pregnant girlfriend and tried to force an abortion. The case, now detailed in a lawsuit, says he fed Ms. Doe a sedative-laced smoothie and then moved to give her abortion pills while she was too drowsy to resist.
That plea is why the case is back in view now. Suh is awaiting sentencing, and the new filing lays out what prosecutors did not need to prove after the guilty plea: that he told the court he used Xanax and Promethazine in what he called a special pregnancy protein powder shake, then intended to sedate her so he could administer the pills he had obtained online.
Ms. Doe wanted to keep the pregnancy. Instead, the lawsuit says Suh shoved abortion pills into her mouth and vagina after first telling her, “Eat this, it’s good for you.” The filing says the fetus was killed and that she lost the baby she had hoped to keep. Suh also told the court, “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.”
The relationship began in 2020, when the two were enrolled at West Point. The pregnancy was discovered in 2022, and the lawsuit says Suh opposed it, threatened to kill himself if she would not end it, and stole her identity to open a fake account with an online pharmacy. The pills were ordered in her name and shipped to West Point, according to the filing and the plea.
What makes the case harder to dismiss is what followed. After the guilty plea, Suh later enrolled in Columbia University’s public-health masters program and, before that, earned a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in 2024 after studying emergency medicine in upstate New York. The school was unaware of his conviction until media inquiries prompted action, a sequence that leaves the case with one unanswered point: what sentence he will receive for felony assault after admitting he tried to force an abortion.
He had even asked on the pharmacy’s online forum, “[W]ill I feel the pills in my vaginia?” That line now sits beside a plea and a lawsuit that turn a private pregnancy into a criminal case with a still-open ending.
