A former West Point cadet drugged his pregnant girlfriend, shoved abortion pills inside her while she was sedated, killed the child she wanted to keep — and then walked into two Ivy League universities, including one he entered after pleading guilty to felony assault. The institution charged with building America's military leaders kept it quiet, and the academic institutions that followed asked no questions until the press came calling.
Caleb Suh was a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy in 2022 when his then-girlfriend, a 19-year-old sophomore cadet, told him she was pregnant and wanted to keep the baby. Suh was opposed. According to the lawsuit filed October 28 in a New York court, he threatened to kill himself if she didn't terminate. Then he hatched a plan: he stole her identity, opened a fake account with an online pharmacy, and ordered abortion pills shipped to West Point — even posting on the pharmacy's forum asking, "will I feel the pills in my vaginia?" according to court documents reported by the New York Post.
On the day of the assault, Suh handed the woman what he called a "special pregnancy protein powder" smoothie. It was laced with Xanax and Promethazine. When she recoiled at the taste, he held the bottle against her lips and forced her to drink it, according to the suit. Once she was overcome with drowsiness, he shoved abortion pills into her vagina and mouth. She lost the baby.
Suh admitted as much in his guilty plea. "My intent was to use the Xanax to unwittingly sedate my girlfriend so that I could then administer the abortion pills," he confessed. He pleaded guilty to felony assault this past June.
Then he went to Cornell, earned a bachelor's degree in 2024, and enrolled in Columbia University's public health master's program. Columbia, for its part, claimed it had no idea about the conviction — a source told the Post that applications don't ask for criminal disclosures and the school "took swift action" once media started asking questions. What that action was, nobody will say.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution covered the basic facts of the assault and the lawsuit but omitted key details: Suh's father is Dr. Ryung Suh, Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The Post named him. That connection matters. A man whose son committed a premeditated, drug-facilitated assault inside a military installation holds a senior federal post overseeing veterans' healthcare. No one has asked whether that relationship played any role in how quietly this case moved through the system.
West Point, an institution that exists to forge character in future officers, produced a man who sedated a woman to kill his own child — and apparently raised no alarm bells when he departed. The federal court system accepted a felony assault plea for what many would call something far more serious. And two Ivy League schools enrolled him without a second look.
The woman, identified only as Ms. Doe, has lived with the consequences. "Ms. Doe's life has been irreparably changed, and she has lost a baby that she intended to keep," the lawsuit states. Meanwhile, Suh matriculated, earned degrees, and advanced through elite institutions — until a lawsuit and a reporter's inquiry finally forced someone to pay attention.
Suh is awaiting sentencing. His attorney is Thomas Kenniff, who previously represented Daniel Penny. Columbia's "swift action" remains unspecified. And the question that hangs over all of it: how many institutions had to look the other way for Caleb Suh to walk from West Point to the Ivy League after drugging a woman to force an abortion?
