Allan Keith Huggins

Allan Keith Huggins was a former welfare worker employed by the Department of Community Services (Department) in Western Australia. As part of his employment, Mr Huggins was responsible in finding employment opportunities for youths in the care of the Department. In April 1991, Mr Huggins pleaded guilty to the charge of unlawful and indecent dealing with a person under the age of 16 at a motel under the pretext of finding him employment in the Albany area. At the time, Mr Huggins Supreme Court of Appeal judgment indicates that he had confessed to a psychologist that he had sexually abused six or seven other children when he was employed as an education officer and coordinator of the school programme oriented to finding employment for juveniles who attended Warminda Hostel in Victoria Park, Perth. One of the other alleged victims at the time had made a complaint to Western Australia Police in 1991 about being sexually abused by Mr Huggins, but no further action was taken by the Police.

In 2018, Mr Huggins was eventually convicted of 16 sexual offences in the District Court of Western Australian and had been acquitted on another seven charges against seven different complainants, all boys under the age of 18. All the complainants had been part of Mr Huggins education program at Warminda (which was not a residential hostel at the time) but who had lived in hostels run by the Western Australian Department of Community Services.

In April 2022, it was reported that Mr Huggins (now aged 75) was immediately arrested after been released from prison In Western Australia and was to be extradited to NSW in relation to allegations involving sexually abusing children in the 1970s and 80s.

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