Self-Described Pedophile Arrested In L.A.

Man Who Blogs About His Attraction To Young Girls Had Been Near UCLA Day Care Center With Camera

(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.

[diverinnl]

What a sicko.

[diverinnl]

"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."

This guy is an obvious danger to all children in the State of California. Why did they release him?

[rational_1]

Just put him in the general prison population. Things will take care of themselves...

[diverinnl]

Just put him in the general prison population. Things will take care of themselves...

Posted by rational_1 at 08:58 AM : Aug 14, 2007

Yeah, you're right. It didn't take them long to cure Jeff Dahmer's wierd little disease did it?

[bkylws]

This guy needs to be put away forever. He does not think he's doing anything wrong! That's what is scary.

[extremophil]

So when does the TV movie come out? I think Andy Dick(head) would be a good choice for the role.

[nothappyatall]

"This guy is an obvious danger to all children in the State of California. Why did they release him?"

Because he has committed NO crime, unless you include the constitutionally illegal ban on his being 30 feet near anyone under 18.

Hate to disappoint you, but it is not a crime to gawk at children or take photos of them in public places, nor is it illegal to put up his web site which is archived on archive.org

The guy in a nut case, but he hasn't touched anyone. Again, if PARENTS do their job like they are supposed to then there is nothing to worry about.

[cepe10-2009]

He has committed no crime - it is called free speech duh, nazi freaks in idaho, kkk, etc. have it as well....


The restraining order is painfully unconstitutional - he will be found not guilty. It is a complete joke.

[nothappyatall]

This guy is an obvious danger to all children in the State of California. Why did they release him?
Posted by diverinnl "

Obvious danger? how so? he takes PICTURES in public places and put up a web site, neither is illegal or a danger. Thought crimes are the new legislative baby is that it? wow, that has a slippery slope bent to it.
He was released because legally ( you remember the LAWS and constitution right?) they have no charge they can hold him on except some BS "tresspassing" misdemenor which is basically a fine like a parking ticket.
What did arresting him accomplish? he was back on the street in 6 hours.
The solution is PARENTS doing their jobs.

[theusa1st]

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.


The guy in a nut case, but he hasn't touched anyone. Again, if PARENTS do their job like they are supposed to then there is nothing to worry about.
Posted by newster1 at 09:26 AM : Aug 14, 2007

Yes there is something to worry about. It is people like you that let this evil stay on the street. He is obviously very sick and needs to be permanatly taken care of to keep society safe...especially young girls. Just because he hasn't been caught doesn't mean he hasn't already molested children...they usually molest many before ever getting caught.

[briannorwood]

Would someone please just shoot this creep!

[achadog]

He needs to be beat with his camera and then posted on Net.

[candy-apple]

"Again, if PARENTS do their job like they are supposed to then there is nothing to worry about."
Posted by newster1 at 09:26 AM : Aug 14, 2007

That's not always true. We, as parents, are not with our children 24/7. Children have to go to school and parents have to work. We can talk to, and warn, our children about strangers. If someone wants a child bad enough things happen, whether a parent is with that child or not. We do the best we can and can only hope that our children understand the dangers as well as we do. It's a shame that parents can't be comfortable in sending their children to school without worrying about someone snatching them off of a school ground.

[achadog]

Parents can only do so much, these creaps are masters at stalking, snatching and tricking children...If my childs picture showed up on his site he would move fast or regret it fast...

[rational_1]

The guy in a nut case, but he hasn't touched anyone. Again, if PARENTS do their job like they are supposed to then there is nothing to worry about.
Posted by newster1 at 09:26 AM : Aug 14, 2007

Yes there is something to worry about. It is people like you that let this evil stay on the street. He is obviously very sick and needs to be permanatly taken care of to keep society safe...especially young girls. Just because he hasn't been caught doesn't mean he hasn't already molested children...they usually molest many before ever getting caught.
Posted by theUSA1st at 09:36 AM : Aug 14, 2007

That's the real worry here - even if hasn't molested yet, this guy is a walking time bomb. Ever seen the Dateline "To Catch a Predator" series? A lot of these pervs are aware they could get caught and have their lives ruined and they sometimes even mention law enforcement in their 'chats' with supposedly underage kids, but like moths to a flame they just can't resist and end up getting busted. So, although I'm somewhat sympathetic to the thought-crime argument that he can't be arrested for something he hasn't done, this guy has shown clear mental instability and could be confined to a mental institution indefinitely. Who else but a mentally ill man would find a 12 year-old girl sexually attractive? Off to the psych ward I say!

[nyckate]

newster1 - these animals are predators - two of them attacked a woman who with her child in stroller as she walked down the street - one woman physically attacked her and held her so that the man could take the child out of the stoller - two against one - but she did manage to beat off the woman and got lucky again when the guy couldn't undo the straps of the stroller.

The fault doesn't lie with all the parents not doing enough - the fault lies with the predators.

[omega39-2009]

Surly this guys obvious credentials make him a perfect Republican candidate, Why isn't he running for office?

[nyckate]

He lives off SSI - this guy is on permanent social security disability??? This is unreal.

We are paying the sicko to put children in the hands of peodophiles? No - this has to end - his disability payments should stop - he should either get a job or be institutionalised in the prison of our choice.

[achadog]

Newster1...Are you or your children "invisable"? If these creeps want your child they will figure out how to get them...I did lawenforcement for 26 years...The victims of these crimes are not always unsupervised or low IQ children, It is a very false sence of security to think parents have the ability to stop these creeps. You can minnimize the risk...but if they target your child they usually get to them...

[petesis]

As a liberal I say one well placed shot by a member of the gun loving community would fix this problem in the way nature would intend it. This seems to me to be a perfect example cryiing out.

[mnelsonix]

People like newster1 are a danger. You are so stuck on your interpretation of constitutional law, you have no sense of SOCIAL DECORUM. In fact many people have no sense, or have lost their sense of SOCIAL DECORUM.

Our society used to be safer because people had an unspoken sense of right and wrong. Decorum is lost with the nit-picking of laws and common sense.

newster1 can kiss my fcuking A$$ and if this perve wandered close to my child I'd handle it the old fashioned way. And no normal folks would get hurt.

newster1 is such a mousey ****, and if your home gets invaded or your child raped, you'll experience a change in your nit-picking, *******, no common sense, perspective.

[richnj1]

I am also very sympathetic to the thought-crime argument. HOWEVER, where he may have crossed the line is in identifying good places to meet "LGs", including giving star-ratings (3-star, etc.), which is described in the story this article links to. At that point, he might be a de facto accomplice to molestation.

He should be free to advocate for changing laws. I am free to create a Web site to advocate for changing laws to make vigilante murders of pedophiles legal. But if I were to add to such a site the locations of pedophiles, I would be going beyond advocating a change in laws; I would implicitly be condoning violence against them.

I think the photos and ratings put him over the line.

[infidel_us]

I'm glad they finally got around to nailing RandalB$! Bet we won't see him posting today. LOL

[tnt1954]

do you feel lucky? do you feel liberal? make
clint eastwood's day. should all socio-sexual
laws on the books be enforced to the letter,
on all people? ban porno, ban x movies, ban
playboy magazine, penthouse, like have a total
housecleaning this instant and every instant.
should all corruptors be immediately targeted?

[berniepeders]

Pedophiles aren't confined to the Los Angeles Catholic church. They're all over the country, probably all over the world. When they're caught, the church just moves them somewhere else, where no one knows about their past. I think they should be excommunicated and then put in prison for life.

[mnelsonix]

george2221--I'm LMAO.

You agree with newster1 yet you say, "...the fake people out there and here who think they actually care about children being molested by pedophiles should do something about the known pedophiles in the Los Angeles Catholic Churches.""

If a preist molested my child, I would take care of it! And I'd take care of it my way. I wonder if I'd be forgiven?

You agree with newster1...Would you want a mob of good ole boys to perform some vigilante justice on a few pervy preists?

[oakishpines]

welcome to usa,

land of dared kids and home of the shocked and awed,

after forclosing on all the u.s. farms and hospitals and schools and replacing them with 'the big house',

we are out to forclose on all the farms in asia, europe, south america, africa, and australia

except that, actually, it's more like

after driving the cost of living through the roof, we're exploiting cheap labor overseas, and exploiting high price shelfs in north america and europe

but all the population density is in asia, so we're begging our way in the doors of countries with more english speaking capitalists than has the united states


meanwhile, they laugh at us: because we think we can feed and patrol the world with our petty 300 million


ironically, we actually could: but they won't let us


and after our mid-east policy of: 'collateral damage is a mess of starved enemy babies',

we best pray they don't adopt a anti-dare and anti-shock and awe policy of: 'collateral damage is a mess of starved enemy babies'


at any rate: most counties in the world are get well feed world counties, and most of the get sick tax world counties let folk come and go freely ... really that's optimistic: i know i for one would probably not want folk telling my grandkids thay got to be leashed to a county, so maybe everyone else is the same

[mnelsonix]

sorry...i meant priest!!

[noaanhc]

A few persons on here are saying throw him in prison or shoot him - WHY - he has not been convicted of a crime yet.Is he a sick person, yes he is,but he has not broken any law.A lot of men including me would be in prison now for going to the park or the beach and looking at the beautiful women ages 18 and over.

Guess I had better turn myself in to the police today for this terrible crime I have been committing for many years now.

[klingon69]

I'm glad they finally got around to nailing RandalB$! Bet we won't see him posting today. LOL
Posted by infidel_us at 10:23 AM : Aug 14, 2007
What happened to randal?
I think he is posting under the nasme of SGTRDS now.

[infidel_us]

I think he is posting under the nasme of SGTRDS now.
Posted by Klingon69 at 10:47 AM : Aug 14, 2007

He is. I was associating the above subject with him. But it's not FUNNY if you have to explain it! :)

[berniepeders]

oakishpines-

If you're going to post, why don't you say something that makes sense? Oh yeah, and why don't you learn to spell? If you mean "countries", say "countries", not counties.

[mnelsonix]

He has broken the law. He advocates child abuse.

Here is the important distinction: He said, "I don't think any child should be touched sexually or non-sexually against their will." "AGAINST THEIR WILL?" THEY ARE KIDS! CHILDREN CAN NOT CONSENT TO SEXUAL ACTIVITY PERIOD. He is wrong...Children should not be molested even if they don't put up a fight!!!!!

Here is anothre example: ""...about his Web site, which promotes the acceptance of touching between men and prepubescent girls..."" PROMOTES ACCEPTANCE!!!! AWE, HOW CUTE AND CUDDILY.

You may think he has not crossed the legal line, but I think he has...so do a lot of other folks. Check out his web site and tell me he's with in the law.

You people, so afraid of the "thought police," You'll let your kids get hurt. **** you.

[klingon69]

Child molesting also goes unchecked in the polygamist Mormon religion.

Posted by george2221 at 10:25 AM : Aug 14, 2007
First off, the Mormon religion, is not polygamist. The decision to become polygamists actually was not for carnal reasons, but for compassionate. During the trek to Utah, the mormons were set upon countless times by both white and red attackers. Many mormon men died during these attacks, leaving their wives and children with no protection or means of support. The elders of the church took these widows and children under their protection and provision to help them, later it did turn carnal. When Utah was to become a state, the US said that no state could permit polygamist unions, and so polygamy was ended for the main LDS church. There however are splinter groups that still practice this polygamy, only they are LEGALLY married to just one, but married to multiple according to their faith.

[tnt1954]

there are about 500 thousand x sites on the
internet, of hard core type. should computers
be banned? look before you leap.
ban tv? ban telephones? cell phones? two
tv? closed circuit tv? we're all being
photographed without our knowledge and consent
and the photos are being used for profit.
and the subjects of the photography is not
getting paid. for example, camera survelliance
at most stores. etc. stalin was a very popular
guy. josef stalin. lotta stalinists out there.

[klingon69]

He has broken the law. He advocates child abuse.

Since the CPS considers spanking a child a form of abuse, then I guess LOTS of parents advocate child abuse.

You may think he has not crossed the legal line, but I think he has...so do a lot of other folks. Check out his web site and tell me he's with in the law.
Ahhh, but that is what is nice about the US, it's not what you think, but what rights and crimes are determined by the law of the land. However, I think he should be hung up by his cajones and used for a pinata.

You people, so afraid of the "thought police," You'll let your kids get hurt. **** you.
Posted by mnelsonix at 10:58 AM : Aug 14, 2007
No, I would not let my child get hurt, however you start to walk a dangerously thin line with the "thought police".

[commentsrus]

Thanks for clearing that up for us.

So, child molesting also goes unchecked in the Mormon religion.

[theusa1st]

Child molesting also goes unchecked in the polygamist Mormon religion.

Posted by george2221 at 10:25 AM : Aug 14, 2007

I quess you would have to include school teachers in your rhetoric...or do you only want to attack religion. All pedophiles must be swiftly dealt justice. Where else do adults come in closer contact with children than schools. There are more pedophiles in our schools than in our churches but the all powerful teachers unions have the power to sweep it under the rug. Most teachers are honorable but not all are. Most people in society are decent but not all are. But most people don't want to discuss this subject and include teachers....

[xavia1-2009]

Yeah, there goes oakishpines again.
high, high, high.

or just crazy.

[commentsrus]

If the LAPD would lock this guy up in general confinement and spread the word that he likes little girls, the problem would be taken care up by dawn.

[slim1h2o]

I'm glad they finally got around to nailing RandalB$! Bet we won't see him posting today. LOL
Posted by infidel_us at 10:23 AM : Aug 14, 2007
What did they nail him on?

[tnt1954]

are the lunatics running the insane asylum?
i think they are. two-way tv.

[wolfn2007]

Strip him down and pour honey all over his body, then stake him on top of a big red ant hill. Then burn what%u2019s left!!

[nlm2383]

I have to agree with newster1. As sick and perverted as this guy is, he isn't doing anything illegal. It suck to see it that way because being a pervert and taking pictures and gawking at little girls is disgusting. He should be put in an institute, off the streets, but there's more out there like him. Go to www.jackmcclellan.com. The guy that made this website has info about these people and what you can do to help stop them.

[zorlacskates]

hey, theUSA1st, you're a liar. the stats concerning abusive teachers say the odds of a teacher molesting a child are almost negligible. why are you trying to scare people away from education? knock off the ann coulter garbage-speak and grow up, jerkweed.

[mnelsonix]

Posted by Klingon69: "Since the CPS considers spanking a child a form of abuse, then I guess LOTS of parents advocate child abuse."

This is why I mentioned "Social Decorum." Or the lack of it. Our society has lost it's innate sense of right and wrong. There has to be a "Law" against it, or it is legal. Sometimes legal is wrong. Constitutional law protects certain freedoms, sometimes folks use these freedoms to do the wrong thing legally. Sometimes it may be legal, yet it is unethical. Let's get some decorum please.

This "Self-Described Pedophile" is trying to bend the law without breaking it. People are coming to his defense because they are afraid of the "thought police."

The "thought police" are a danger but it has little to do with this case. This guy has gone beyond "thinking about it"

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

This is a threat against children. It breaks the law.

[rillifane]

What's appalling here is not that some unbalanced person openly describes his pedophilia but that so many people have so little respect for the rule of law and such a weak minded inability to distinquish between thought and action that they are willing to see legality perverted and abused.

There is no circumstance in which anyone should be persecuted for what they think and very few situations in which they should be subject to government action for what they say or publish.

The hysterical responses to this individual (including the ravings posted by so many of the responders here) is more an expression of the mental instabilty of those howling for his scalp than a reasoned response to him.

In the final analysis this person has done nothing but think something I find disagreeable.

Unless he can be shown to have acted to effectuate his desires by actually committing an improper touching then he has as much right to advocate change in the law as anyone else.

[toldyouso21]

hmmmmm. while America is riveted by the antics of one "maybe" the odds are likely that at least 5 to 10 million "sure things"---are quietly raping and molesting our kids. This man is a distraction and a weak news story--attention grabber--people would do better to look amongst their own relatives, close friends, clergy and others they see every day--for the true molesters of their kids.

Molestation is a crime of opportunity and is almost always accomplished with the unknowing aid and abetting of a tootrusting parent.

[xenalily]

"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. "

How in the world has this guy been able to avoid being arrested prior to this incident? Is it really possible for him to stay 30 feet away from children at all times in the entire state of California without him being institutionalized?

[xenalily]

"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. "

How in the world has this guy been able to avoid being arrested prior to this incident? Is it really possible for him to stay 30 feet away from children at all times in the entire state of California without him being institutionalized?