$5M suit over no-baby drug
A DOCTOR spiked his former girlfriend’s drink with an antipregnancy drug without her consent — bluntly admitting he “did not want” to have a child with her once she found out, a $5 million lawsuit alleges.
John Ikechi Nwankwo, 37, was dating Hyosun Kim in April 2016 when “during the course of their romantic relationship, (the couple) routinely engaged in sexual intercourse,” claims Kim’s lawsuit, filed Friday in Manhattan Supreme Court.
But on May 21, 2016, Kim made a disturbing discovery “after engaging in unprotected sexual intercourse” with Nwankwo.
She “discovered a discarded box from oral contraceptives in defendant’s garbage can, to wit, medication commonly known as the “Plan B pill,” her suit alleges.
“The Plan B pill is an oral medication that is taken after unprotected sexual intercourse to prevent pregnancy, which is effective only when taken within 72 hours of unprotected sexual intercourse,” the suit points out, further explaining that it can be purchased over the counter.
When Kim found the drug, she confronted Nwankwo “as she had no ideas where these pills had come from.”
During the confrontation, “he revealed to (Kim’s) complete shock that he had deceptively diluted and mixed the Plan B contraceptive pill in (her) beverage because he ‘did not want to (get) her pregnant.’”
Nwankwo declined comment, saying the Daily News needed to speak with his lawyer, but refused to give the attorney’s name. “This is new to me,” he said. In the suit, Kim says he “was aware she would never have voluntarily agreed to take the Plan B pill.”
She told him “that she never agreed to take the Plan B pill” and pressed him to explain why he put it in her drink without her consent.
He told her “that this was the only way that he could get her to ingest the drug,” Kim alleges in the lawsuit.
Kim is seeking at least $5 million in damages.
She broke up with Nwankwo after the incident. Kim said in the suit that she “was so jarred and upset by the fact that her boyfriend had drugged her that she suffered extreme emotional and mental distress, for which she sought medical treatment.”