前西点军校学员承认给怀孕女友下药强迫流产：受害人提起民事诉讼
据美联社报道，一名前美国军事学院（西点军校）学员 Caleb Suh 今年6月在联邦法院承认，他曾给当时同在西点军校就读的女友下药并强行给她服用流产药物，导致她流产。受害女子10月28日以「Jane Doe」为名在纽约州法院对 Suh 提起民事诉讼，索赔金额未定，这起此前低调处理的案件由此公开。
据检方与诉状，2020年两人在西点军校开始交往，女子2022年怀孕时19岁、读二年级，她想留下孩子，Suh 却反对。Suh 在法庭上承认，他冒用女友身份开设网络药房账户订购流产药物，又从朋友处弄到镇静剂 Xanax，把药掺进一杯他声称是「孕期蛋白昔」中骗女友喝下，待她睡着后经口和阴道给她塞入流产药。女子醒来后发现自己出血，拨打911后被送医，孩子最终没能保住。她于2022年5月向西点军校的陆军刑事调查部门报案；Suh 起初对调查人员否认订药、称流产是意外。
Suh 在今年6月就「袭击」重罪认罪时对法官说，他对自己的行为和造成的痛苦「深感、深切抱歉」。他目前在等候量刑，其律师近期以让他完成哥伦比亚大学公共卫生硕士课程本学期学业为由，获准把量刑推迟到明年1月，检方未反对。
案件公开后，两所常春藤大学的录取审查受到质疑。Suh 2023至2024学年转入康奈尔大学，今年从该校毕业；康奈尔大学11月2日发表声明说，Suh 申请时对「是否曾在任何学校被认定违反纪律」一题回答「否」，西点方面当时报告称他学业状况良好、具备返校资格。今年9月，他进入哥伦比亚大学梅尔曼公共卫生学院读硕士；哥伦比亚以教育隐私法为由拒绝评论他的现状。西点军校方面没有说明当年调查的结论，也没有说明 Suh 受过何种纪律处分。受害女子的律师 Russell Kornblith 说，她经历了「改变一生的事件」，希望站出来能避免悲剧重演。
Former West Point Cadet Admits Drugging Pregnant Girlfriend to Force an Abortion; Victim Files Civil Lawsuit
A former United States Military Academy cadet, Caleb Suh, pleaded guilty in federal court this past June to drugging his then-girlfriend, a fellow West Point cadet, and administering abortion pills to her against her will, causing her to miscarry, the Associated Press reported. On October 28 the woman sued Suh in a New York court under the name Jane Doe, seeking unspecified damages, bringing a case that had played out quietly into public view.
According to prosecutors and the lawsuit, the two began dating at West Point in 2020. When the woman became pregnant in 2022 she was 19 and in her second year; she wanted to have the baby and Suh did not. Suh told the judge he impersonated her to open an online pharmacy account and order abortion medication, obtained the sedative Xanax from a friend, and duped her into drinking what he said was a prenatal protein shake laced with the sedative. After she fell asleep, he administered the abortion pills orally and vaginally. She woke to find herself bleeding, called 911 and was hospitalised; the pregnancy was lost. She reported Suh to the Army Criminal Investigation Division at West Point in May 2022; he initially told an academy investigator the miscarriage was accidental and denied ordering the medication.
Suh pleaded guilty in June to felony assault, telling the court he was 'deeply and immeasurably sorry for my actions and the pain that I have caused.' He is awaiting sentencing, which his lawyer recently succeeded in having put off until January so that Suh can finish his semester in a Columbia University public health master's programme; prosecutors did not oppose the delay.
The case has raised questions about university admissions screening. Suh transferred to Cornell University in the 2023-24 school year and graduated this year. Cornell said in a statement on November 2 that Suh answered 'no' to an application question asking whether he had been found responsible for a disciplinary violation at any previous institution, and that West Point reported he was in good academic standing and eligible to return. In September he began a master's programme at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health; Columbia declined to comment on his current status, citing educational privacy laws. West Point has not provided information on the findings or outcome of its probe, or on any discipline Suh faced. The woman's lawyer, Russell Kornblith, said she had suffered 'a life-changing event' and hoped coming forward would ensure it never happens to anyone else.
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