TALK OF THE SOUND EXCLUSIVE: Internal Email from New Rochelle’s Barnard School Tells Different Story Than Parents Were Told
Talk of the Sound has obtained an internal email from Patricia Lambert, Principal of Barnard Elementary School, to faculty and staff at the school that paints a very different picture of the “Barnard Intruder” incident than what is being communicated to parents of students.
Last month school officials failed to follow security procedures when an unknown person was encountered repeatedly walking around the building and later found hiding in a classroom closet. The school then lied to parents, telling them via robo-calls and letters sent home with students that the man was observed outside the building and left before police arrived. In fact, the man was in the school for 3 to 4 hours and even after the man was found hiding in a closet, Patricia Lamber, the school principal, refused to call police and instead insisting that custodial staff search for the intruder. It was only after the staffers refused to conduct a search that Lambert called the police — several hours after the intruder was first found walking around the building. The story was first reported by Talk of the Sound.