Barnard Super Charged With False Report

Oscar Sevilla, a Barnard assistant superintendent who said he was attacked at 110th Street on Oct. 22, has been charged with filing a false report and suspended indefinitely from his job, according to an e-mail from Barnard Dean Dorothy Denburg.

According to the message, which was addressed to members of the Barnard community, the Police Department alerted administrators that the apparent stabbing took place in northern Manhattan and not in Morningside Heights, as Sevilla had originally reported.

"Mr. Sevilla has been suspended from his position at Barnard College pending resolution of the case," Denburg said in the e-mail.

On the day of the incident, Sevilla said that he had been attacked by six men on 110th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue shortly before 6 a.m. He was admitted to St. Luke's later that day with an apparent stab wound to the back.

In an e-mail sent the same day, Denburg said that the incident appeared to be a robbery and that Barnard would step up security patrols in the area as a precaution.