Hopkins exploited his authority to engage in a sexual relationship with young boys.

Evidence

Hopkins’s tragic flaw was pedophilia, a homosexual attraction to boys. … He would pick out a boy who had been frightened by his tales and crawl into the boy’s sleeping bag later that night saying that he wanted to comfort him. — Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, 1386

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, 1386