Self-Described Pedophile Arrested In L.A.

(CBS/AP)  A man who blogs about his attraction to young girls, but says he doesn't touch them, was arrested twice at UCLA, first near a university child care facility, then after a live television interview in a campus parking lot.

In the first incident Monday afternoon, Jack McClellan, who had a camera, was seen near the University of California, Los Angeles, Infant Development Program, which provides onsite care for children 3 months to 3 years old, campus spokeswoman Claudia Luther said.

He was arrested and booked on suspicion of violating a statewide restraining order prohibiting him from coming within 30 feet of any child in California. He was released six hours later, and was scheduled to appear in court Sept. 13.

The second incident occurred after someone spotted McClellan, 45, doing a live interview on KTLA-TV, Luther said.

McClellan was taken into custody and cited for trespassing, a misdemeanor, Luther said. He had earlier been told not to return to the campus.

Luther said McClellan would be turned over to Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies. Deputy Bill Brauberger couldn't immediately confirm if the transfer had happened early Tuesday.

Phone and e-mail messages seeking comment from McClellan earlier Monday were not immediately returned. It was unclear if he had retained an attorney.

McClellan, who is unemployed and lives out of his car, created waves in Southern California upon arriving earlier this summer from Washington state.

"(It's) the ambiance of children that I enjoy," he said.

Two months ago McClellan, 45, was basically run out of Washington state when word got out about his Web site, which promotes the acceptance of touching between men and prepubescent girls, reported CBS News correspondent Bianca Solorzano last month.

For years, McClellan maintained a Web site in Washington where he posted photos of children he had taken in public places. He also discussed how he liked to stake out parks, public libraries, fast-food restaurants and other areas where little girls, or "LGs," congregate.

McClellan's server took his Web site down over a month ago. He said in an interview a few weeks ago that he wasn't sure whether he would try to put it back up.

McClellan, who said he lives on supplemental security income and suffers from depression, has maintained that he launched the site as a form of therapy and wouldn't do anything illegal.

"I don't think any child should be touched sexually or non-sexually against their will," he said.

[wiccantexan]

Per state code - for tresspassing to be enforceable as a charge the area has to be posted as no tresspassing - it was not.
Posted by cepe10 at 12:56 PM : Aug 15, 2007

It wasn't merely trespassing. He first violated a statewide restraining order prohibiting him from coming within 30 feet of any child in California. The second arrest was trespassing because he had been specifically directed not to come back onto the campus because of the first incident. That would be considered, IMO, the equivalent of the "no trespassing" sign.

[cepe10-2009]

There is all kinds of touching between adult males and prepubescent girls in the image search I presented... Christian Evangalists are notorious for it. Every youth group leader in America should be killed based on the logic of the hysterical vigilante posse of america. lol the guy may well be a nut case but he did nothing illegal and is protected by the constitutional free speech right. Just like a lot of fanatical religous nut cases are...

[cepe10-2009]

Per state code - for tresspassing to be enforceable as a charge the area has to be posted as no tresspassing - it was not. The law enforcement officer who arrested him should be facing false arrest and incompetance charges ...

[wiccantexan]

cepe10, none of the youth you mentioned were having their photos posted specifically for the benefit of criminal activity.

[nordeck52]

Good job police. Lock him up, throw away the key, and let him rot away in a cell somewhere. Or, even better, drop him straight into the caldera of an active volcano. Mt. Etna, Vesuvius, and Kilauea are fine candidates, I think.

[wiccantexan]

If he is taking pictures of young girls and posting them on a website and telling other perverts where they can be found, he is violating the privacy rights of these children, and volating the law.

He can be tried in a civil court for this activity.

Posted by down-ndirty at 05:32 PM : Aug 14, 2007

Taking the pictures is not in itself illegal. However, there are many laws that govern the use of pictures. There is obvious criminal intent here, as he's advertising it for other pedophiles. Also, they are minors and there are loopholes I'm sure for the parents to pursue.

[cepe10-2009]

Personally, i am glad to klnow that posting images of anyone under the age of 18 without their explicit permission is a crime punishable by death and administered by the hysterical vigilante posse of america.

I have always been annoyed by evangical youth groups so this should be the end of them...:)

since it is a crime just type in youth goup and do an image search...

and for the minister's wife getting off for killing her husband - good for you he probably took some pictures of people under the age of 18 anyway...so his death was imminent.

[kailumego1]

Kinsey, the infamous se[x] guru/expert used the testimony of known pedophiles in his experimentation of male adolescent se[x]uality, documenting the erec[tion] of molested young boys, how often and the duration for his Nobel Prize winning study.

He was so revered Hollywood even made a movie about his controversial experiments.
So, why should it come as any surprise by the pervasiveness and magnitude of this type of sadistic behavior in American society, considering the mixed contradictory messages between men and women.

For example Hollywood, the media, and the music industry has constantly objectified women, the transmogrification of natural beauty into an artificial and unnatural physic whose body parts are no longer the creation of God, but the architecture of a cosmetic surgeon.

And if those wasn%u2019t enough, or add salt to the wound, some mothers parade their young pre-pubescent daughters around in beauty pageants dressed up in skimpy outfits, and to top it off, finishing their exploits by piling on a multitude of make up, turning a doe-eyed innocent girl into a seductive vixen, for some old Erectile Dysfunction man to drool and pant.

Women and children have been objectified by this society for centuries so it%u2019s no wonder why individuals such as Jack McClellan, Wesley Dodd, John Wayne Gacy, Howard Rollins, Theodore Bundy, Edmund Kemper, Charles Neilson, etc. have continued to exist.

[kailumego1]

Kinsey, the infamous se[x] guru/expert used the testimony of known pedophiles in his experimentation of male adolescent se[x]uality, documenting the erec[tion] of molested young boys, how often and the duration for his Nobel Prize winning study.

He was so revered Hollywood even made a movie about his controversial experiments.
So, why should it come as any surprise by the pervasiveness and magnitude of this type of sadistic behavior in American society, considering the mixed contradictory messages between men and women.

For example Hollywood, the media, and the music industry has constantly objectified women, the transmogrification of natural beauty into an artificial and unnatural physic whose body parts are no longer the creation of God, but the architecture of a cosmetic surgeon.

And if those wasn%u2019t enough, or add salt to the wound, some mothers parade their young pre-pubescent daughters around in beauty pageants dressed up in skimpy outfits, and to top it off, finishing their exploits by piling on a multitude of make up, turning a doe-eyed innocent girl into a seductive vixen, for some old Erectile Dysfunction man to drool and pant.

Women and children have been objectified by this society for centuries so it%u2019s no wonder why individuals such as Jack McClellan, Wesley Dodd, John Wayne Gacy, Howard Rollins, Theodore Bundy, Edmund Kemper, Charles Neilson, etc. have continued to exist.

[kerimparrot]

"He was arrested and booked on suspicion of violating a statewide restraining order prohibiting him from coming within 30 feet of any child in California." A quote from the story. Some would say he could go live 10 miles east of Death Valley but not me. And he gets caught for trespassing at UCLA where the common public can go. But he is a fool for hanging around after being told to leave. Remember too, innocent until PROVEN GUILTY.