In 1964, she starred in the Filipino-American war film Back Door to Hell alongside singer Jimmie Rodgers and Jack Nicholson.
On 13 October 1962, 19-year-old Huggins reported that she was taken against her will to Hagonoy, Bulacan and defiled of her honor by Ruben Ablaza, a portly taxi driver, who plotted the abduction with two others, Lauro Ocampo and Jose "Totoy Pulis" Leoncio.
The most awaited part of the trial was when the principal witness, Huggins, testified before Fiscal Pascual Kliatchko and a curious courtroom crowd.
[3] While the two men were executed, Ablaza's death sentence was cancelled by then-sitting president Ferdinand Marcos twice and reduced to life imprisonment.
In 1963, Eddie Garcia directed the film Ang Mananaggol ni Ruben, starring Lolita Rodriguez as Huggins and Mario Montenegro as Ablaza.