Patrick Lott, Middle School Principal, Arrested For Allegedly Recording Boys Showering

Patrick Lott, Bernardsville Middle School assistant principal, has been arrested for allegedly recording boys showering at Immaculata High School in Somerset County, N.J., where he was a volunteer, the New Jersey Journal reports.

Lott was arrested last week after authorities used a Superior Court search warrant to find videos of the nude teenagers in his home.

Somerset County Prosecutor Geoffrey Soriano told the Journal that nine of the boys videotaped were under 16 years old. According to the report, authorities have notified a total of 22 victims.

Based on the results of the search warrant, CBS New York reports the videos were recorded over a span of nearly three years, beginning in 2008.

A high-ranking and respected educator at the middle school and in the community, Lott recently ran for the Somerville Borough Council on the Republican ticket, NBC New York Reports. His bid was unsuccessful.

Lott now faces charges including child endangerment. He is currently being held in the Somerset County Jail on $500,000 bail.

Comments

[Veronica Morin]

09:23 PM on 03/14/2012

Patrick Lott is not this person the news reports him to be. He was and is an undercover Child Services Protection Agent for the United States Government of America. Mr. Lott personally saved my life on King George Road in Benardsville Martinvsille from Marie Adams, Susan Reese, Sandy Davidson, Maryann Brock and Betty Elizabeth Zangari. They were running a teenage prostitution ring and I refused to sell my body for these powerful women. Mr. Lott Pulled us out we gave our police reports but unfortunately too many influential politicians, judges, police and business folks in Somerset County, NJ area had had sex behind their wives backs. Folks like Mr. Partrick Lott advised, counseled and consoled and inspired us to lead clean lives free from drugs and sex for money. Mr. Patrick Lott is an inspiration for most of us. If he was involved with the evidence it is because everyone in law enforcement is too scared to come forward. They are scared of Arnetha Allie and Robert Allie of 75 West Spring Street, Somerville, NJ 08876.

[Veronica Morin]

09:31 PM on 03/14/2012

I can tell you though that Bob did try to give up evidence when I was their tenant and the Somerville Police did not a thing. Especially my co-workers husband Ed Purcell- Chief of Police in Somerville, NJ who had told me that my landlords the Allies had drug convictions but his wife Allison Purcell had a lunch time pot smoking habit. sorry for telling it like it is but I am scared that my sister who worked with Betty Zangari is planning on forcing me into a mental instuition for life and they stole my car again and she is threating Electric Shock Therapy. My plate is ASP2506 and my car is illegally at Ronald Kleinschmidts house at 6206 E. Winchcomb Scottsdale and the Police here ae from AC NJ where my purse was stolen by Cindy Morante of 6 ambar place benardsville, nj 07920, my car was stolen through state farm where her relative State Farm Insurance Agent Jean DiGrande works. I am starving and out two cars. The plate for the NJ car was IM56NP 08 Jeep Cherokee fully loaded laredo. The other car is a AZ ASP2506 insured through Ric Newman State Farm. These stuck up people don't even work... This is what it is the Cops here in Scottsdale are from Atlantic City, NJ> HELP

[indothinker]

07:16 AM on 01/05/2012

and the SOB will probably only get probation...

[bustanick]

01:24 PM on 01/02/2012

Taping boy's pee-pees in a shower. For shame!

[acumenguy]

09:17 PM on 01/01/2012

Did he really think he was going to get away with this?

[foresure]

03:41 PM on 01/01/2012

Areil Bonzai:

I couldn't find another Reply box. So I have to answer this way.

There was a particularly crazy case in Tampa Florida, in one of the super classy private school.

The coach of the girls' middle school swim team, a male, (which I even think is a bit much), got busted for the following.

He would order new swimsuits for the girls, and then have them try them on in their locker room, which was conveniently next his office.

You guessed it he had a hidden video camera.

BUT HERE IS THE REST OF THE STORY:

One of the girls/victims was the daughter one of the most famous and successul personal injury attoneys in the Tampa Bay Area. I think he was in on the board of directors of the school.

Not good for the school. I think the issue was settled with a confidentially agreement.

It reminds me of the time, years ago, when Ralph Nader got bumped from a plane, without compensation.

You guessed it

[Noble9]

10:28 AM on 01/01/2012

And yet the TSA looks at naked boys every day...

[jerseyrose]

09:16 PM on 12/31/2011

I live in b'ville and believe me when I say EVERYONE around here was shocked.He was a BELOVED educator. And no, he didn't/doesn't always look creepy like that. Most people I've spoken with believe there will be more revelations - they point to the fact that Sandusky had a $250K bail and Lott's is $500K. Who knows. Not only is this sad for the victims - who at this point may not know he observed them but for all the kids - especially boys - who trusted and admired him. Not to mention his daughter who is a sr. at the HS where the taping happened. What a world...

[bytebroker]

06:55 AM on 01/02/2012

And you should be furious, The $500K bail seems fine to me since he preyed on children. Now his daughter is going to be embarrassed? Her mom should sell the home and leave the state, divorce his sorry ass and never speak to him again. He can cash in his pension to compensate the victims. Very short leash when he gets out after serving his full and hopefully lengthy sentence. We need to deal with these people harshly and publicly as an example to other who would consider doing the same, maybe they'll think better about committing such a heinous offense.

[suds mcduff]

03:28 PM on 12/31/2011

Middle school kids haven't taken showers at school here in decades....

[suds mcduff]

03:25 PM on 12/31/2011

Repub loves adolescent boys....this is news?

[Amy Will]

12:08 PM on 12/31/2011

creepy man! creepy!

[grapost]

09:19 AM on 12/31/2011

Another crime committed by an American Christian. 75 percent of American identify themselves and subscribing to the Christian Faith. The vast majority of crimes are committed by Christians.

Yet Conservatives continue to demonize American Muslims and portray them as dangerous.

We have more to fear from American Christians than we do from American Muslims.

[bytebroker]

06:57 AM on 01/02/2012

When was the last time a Christian flew a plane into a skyscraper killing 3,000 Americans mostly civilians?

[teenybearz]

09:11 AM on 12/31/2011

did nobody get a weird vibe just by looking at the guy? Come on.. Maybe they should check out these people a little better before you subject our innocent children to the freaking monsters? Someone had to know the guy was another stinking useless waste of breath twisted pervert.

[ms eve]

12:21 PM on 12/31/2011

Have you ever seen a mugshot where the subject didn't look "weird"?

[BruntLIVE]

08:53 AM on 12/31/2011

We will have more stories like this, the journalistic and educational minds eye are still stuck on minority children and how to make their lives a living hell. All the while craiglist white men are employed left and right recording, molesting and raping.

[Ariel Bonzai]

01:55 PM on 12/31/2011

This type of predatory either doesn't usually prey on minorities or rarely is caught I that setting.i tend to believe they prefer affluent white kids. They are less worldly in their privileged liifestyle and less likely to catch because their parents shield them from ugly truths. Ironically this guy and those I have seen are from the same demographic. It seems to me the solution is much easier to address than the complex issues kids in urban &rural schools confront.no reason both can't be public concerns, but parents and educators in the burbs have the resources ypto address this issue easily. I wish ESL concerns and conquering corrupt districts were that simple

[MrFletcher]

08:06 AM on 12/31/2011

If a background check was run I bet there would be something in his records that would prevent him from hveing a job involving kids.

[K White]

12:06 AM on 12/31/2011

Not another one. The locker room is really starting to sound like a dangerous place for young boys.