Counseling Offer Continues at Bville Middle School

Counseling will be available as long as needed at the Bernardsville Middle School in the Somerset Hills school district, where the school's assistant principal, Patrick Lott, had been arrested shortly before Christmas showering students at Immaculata High School.

The superintendent's office at the Somerset Hills district on Friday said that the counseling, offered through a county department, would continue as long as it is needed.

According to an email from Schools Superintendent Peter Miller, the district also sent a message to all parents and staff that the Bernardsville Middle School and Bernards High School facilities had been searched by Somerset County Prosecutor's detectives and no recording devices of any type were found.

As of most recent reports, Lott remained in Somerset County Jail after a raid in December on his home in Somerville, where authorities said they found evidence that he allegedly had videoed boys in the shower at Immaculata, also located in Somerville. Lott was a volunteer at the private high school, according to reports.

Lott started in the Somerset Hills school district as a middle school assistant principal in 2003, school officials said. In 2006. he became the assistant principal at Bernards High School, and then in 2009 returned to the position at the middle school, according to the school district.
 
School officials said that anyone with information about the case is asked to call the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Unit at 908-575-3300, or the tip line at 1-888-577-8477.