Sweet Home Police Department detectives arrested a Hawthorne School teacher’s assistant for first-degree sexual abuse on April 23.
Detectives opened an investigation of Troy Allen Hopper, 38, on March 6 after receiving a complaint that Hopper had allegedly had sexual contact with several grade-school students between 1997 and 2000, said Police Chief Bob Burford. The victims, now adults, attended Hawthorne Elementary School at the time.
The investigation revealed two male victims who allegedly had been…