Christopher Standen: Huonville man charged with child images

A Tasmanian tech whiz who has held a series of roles in the sector, including a six-month stint providing a training program to high school students, has been charged with three offences.

Huonville man Christopher John Standen, 36. Picture: LinkedIn

A Tasmanian tech whiz who has held a series of roles in the sector, including a six-month stint providing a training program to high school students, has been charged with three offences relating to his alleged download and possession of child exploitation material.

Huonville man Christopher John Standen, 36, appeared in Hobart Magistrates Court on Friday for a first mention of the charges.

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He is charged with possessing child exploitation material and possessing/controlling child abuse material obtained or accessed using a carriage service (Cth offence), both of which police allege occurred at his Huonville address on October 17, 2019.

Mr Standen is also charged with using a carriage service to access child abuse material (Cth offence). This is alleged to have occurred between May 19, 2016, and October 14, 2019.

Mr Standen was not required to enter pleas to the charges. His matters were adjourned to January 17 next year.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Mr Standen is currently a “learning support tutor” at TasTAFE. The profile states he has worked for a series of technology and gaming companies, including southeast Queensland’s Nexus Games and New York Stock Exchange-listed DXC Technology.

His profile states that when he was engaged by Nexus in 2003–05, he was responsible for the “supervision of children on computers”.

It also states that in 2015, he was engaged for six months by NDA Training Tasmania to deliver computer literacy courses at Huonville High School.