Southbank nerd dad Christopher ‘Chris’ McIntosh pleads guilty to possess child abuse material

A Southbank dad's hobbies include reading books, doing puzzles, Dungeons and Dragons and hoarding child abuse material.

Christopher 'Chris' McInstosh pleaded guilty to possess child abuse material. Facebook.

A Southbank man caught with more than 27,000 child abuse material files also hoarded horrid Harry Potter, Ben 10 and Kim Possible fan fiction.

Christopher ‘Chris’ McIntosh, 39, pleaded guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court to possess child abuse material.

McIntosh, a father, was nabbed at his Southbank family home with a stack of child abuse material in December 2020.

Police seized multiple devices including hard-drives, an iPhone and a laptop which contained a combined 27,584 child abuse material images, videos and documents.

McIntosh’s lewd haul also included vile material which depicted pre-pubescent children aged under 13.

The court heard McIntosh also hoarded 28 million Harry Potter, Ben 10, Kim Possible and various other child-based fan fiction stories.

Investigators detected 3 million words within the stories which indicated child abuse material.

“(Police) believe the documents are child abuse material,” the prosecution submitted.

“But without reading each documents separately they (investigators) cannot classify the material as child abuse material.”

McIntosh told police he downloaded the child abuse material over several years which he defined as “material which sexualises people under age of 16”.

“More specifically children, children performing sexual acts,” McIntosh told police.

McIntosh admitted much of his material was videos depicting females aged 8 to 12.

The court heard McIntosh completed a community correction order and sex offender program for a 2010 conviction for child pornography offending.

The defence submitted McIntosh was recently diagnosed as being autistic.

McIntosh, who the court heard was an “incredibly voracious” reader, also had major brain surgery to remove a cyst from behind his eye.

McIntosh’s dad told the court his son was a “nerd” who was bullied at Hampton Park Secondary College for being a “bit overweight”.

“He was absolutely hopeless at sports,” McIntosh’s dad said.

“But he was absolutely brilliant at mathematics … he’s extremely intelligent … he’s a nerd, he’s a nerd.”

McIntosh’s dad told the court his son studied accountancy at RMIT before gaining employment as a police forensic accountant.

McIntosh, who currently works in payroll at a Richmond company, is working on a giant puzzle and enjoyed Dungeons and Dragons board games, the court was told.

Mr McIntosh told the court his son has always been a collector of many different things.

“He had bags and bags of Lego … he built a chicken,” Mr McIntosh said.

The court heard McIntosh worked at a solicitor’s office but was sacked immediately after being charged.

McIntosh, who moved into his father’s Pakenham home while on bail, will be sentenced at a later date.

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