A 26-year-old Johnson County resident was been charged with one count of Rape of a victim under the age of 14 in Crittenden County.
According to booking information from the Crittenden County Sheriff's office Shawn Blair Higgins, who's hometown is listed as Knoxville in booking information, was booked into the Crittenden County jail at 8:00 p.m. on March 13 of this year. On Tuesday, Wiggins was officially charged with the crime which involved the rape of a minor by family member or guardian.
According to information furnished To today in Fort smith, the victim was a two-year-old child.
Bond was set at 200,000 for Wiggins.
As late as May of 2022, Wiggins was arrested and found guilty of failing to register as a sex offender in Johnson County. Apparently, he was given a 24-month sentence at that time with 36 months suspended.
He is not listed as a registered sex offender in either Johnson or Crittenden County or with the FBI National Sex Offender website at this time.
In 2016, Wiggins was charged with rape terroristic threatening in the first degree and domestic battery and was given a suspended imposition of sentence 12 months on the domestic battery charge. The other two charges were a dismissed.
That arrest and negotiate conviction was also out of Johnson County. Judge James Dunham was the presiding judge in both of those cases.
Court records also reveal that Wiggins was the subject of a order of protection in Crittenden County that was issued August 25, 2021.
That order of protection was granted after Wiggin's domestic partner at the said she was seeking the order because he was "physically or mentally abusive" and that she needed to protect herself and her unborn child.
Given the gestation period after she filed for and received the order of protection, the child in question in the latest rape filing would be have been born within a two-year parameter.
