A Brooklyn school administrator was arrested on charges he starved, abused and abandoned a French Bulldog in his filthy Long Island apartment bathroom, authorities said today.
Frank Hopson, 59, was nabbed Thursday afternoon outside Clara Barton High School, where he is an assistant principal.
A maintenance worker in Hopson’s Freeport, LI, complex found the purebred bulldog shaking and emaciated in a bathroom that was covered in feces and urine back in July 2008.
The two-bedroom apartment was trashed, said worker John Cunningham.
“He lives like a slob. It’s just clutter, like a hoarder – just a pile of crap, everywhere,” he said.
Cunningham and his daughter eventually reported the abandoned canine to the animal rescue group Rescue Ink, which has its own reality television show.
By September 2008, the dog was picked up by the group and the Nassau Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The dog was renamed Freesia and was adopted by a family through the French Bulldog Rescue Network.
Hopson faces up to a year in jail on animal cruelty charges and is due in a Nassau County court May 4.
It took nearly two years to arrest Hopson because authorities had a tough time finding him, a Nassau County District Attorney’s office spokeswoman said. The case was accelerated after the office’s new Animal Abuse Unit was formed.
Hopson could not be located for comment.