A 'psychopathic' paedophile, who later boasted of sexually abusing 2,000 boys, was employed as a Victorian Education Department school teacher despite declaring in a 1970s job application form that he was a convicted child abuser.
William Alexander Allen admitted in a 1973 job application form that he had been convicted of indecency charges relating to two students during a previous teaching stint.
Allen, who in the mid-1980s achieved infamy when he boasted during a television interview that he was a lifelong paedophile who'd abused 2,000 boys, taught at Albert Park High School between June 1973 and September 1975, then at Templestowe High School between September 1975 and his retirement in May 1982.
As a result of Delta's Operation Rockspider, Allen and seven other alleged sex offenders — including another government school teacher subsequently convicted of abusing students — were arrested during a raid of a house in Melbourne's Clifton Hill. In a coronial inquest deposition seen by ABC Investigations, a Victoria Police detective wrote that Allen "would kill himself rather than go to gaol" and be prevented from abusing children.
The deposition also stated that during a search of Allen's St Kilda apartment following his arrest in 1983, Victoria Police detectives found evidence that Allen planned to bring a World Vision "foster" child to Australia for the purposes of sexual abuse.
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