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Filed under: Health & Safety: Babies, Media, Gadgets
Realizing that blogs are a great medium for anyone to share information on a topic, Jack McClellan started his own. Only Jack didn't want a place to discuss American Idol or give tips on fly fishing- his site is a forum to promote the acceptance of pedophiles and to direct other pedophiles to the events and places where children tend to gather in Los Angeles. The blog also contained nonsexual photographs he had taken of children in public places. McClellan's site was shut down by the server a few weeks ago, but he plans to restart it with a Dutch server.
"Just the idea that this person could get away with what he was doing and no one could press charges has made me angry," said Jane Thompson, a stay-at-home mother in East Los Angeles who recently read Mr. McClellan's comments about a festival in her neighborhood in which he seemed to be describing her child. Because McClellan doesn't have a criminal record and his site isn't breaking any laws and is protected by the First Amendment, police officers can't really do much.
Parents in the area have started posting "Jack sightings" and even photographs of McClellan in an attempt to keep kids safe and other parents informed of the whereabouts of the man who calls himself a pedophile but claims to have never sexually touched a child.
Logically, I realize anyone can easily find local children activities online, but the thought of a pedophile compiling an illustrated list for fellow perverts (and taking pictures of kids he finds interesting) disturbs me greatly.
Something needs to be done before a child is molested or a parent snaps takes care of the the problem themselves.
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7-30-2007 @ 5:51PM
Sandyone said...It would be bad for a parent to take action? Maybe for that parent, if he gets caught.
These perverts need to be handled by people who speak their language, and that ain't along the legal channels.
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7-30-2007 @ 5:52PM
Heather said...At least you all have acess to a list. Here in Canada the pedphile has rights to privacy and the lists can't be published. And If you post a picture of a convicted pedophile I think you can be charged.
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7-30-2007 @ 5:51PM
Anne said...Sick, sick man.
I wonder if there's any way he can ever be charged as an accessory to a crime against a child??
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7-30-2007 @ 8:44PM
LS said...Heather... maybe someone can start a site and post drawings made of those pedophiles. Here in the U.S., you can't post pictures from a trial (unless the judge releases the press to do so), but a court artist's drawings are printable.
For every rule, there's a way around it... and in this case, I think every route should be tried. This dirtbag doesn't deserve his next breath.
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7-31-2007 @ 1:13PM
courtney said...This is extremely disturbing. Why on God’s green earth would any right minded person accept pedophilia? Any one who hosts this man’s site should be ashamed of themselves. I am glad that you did this post because being aware is our first line of defense and I don’t think he’ll have his site up very long. Hopefully he will be will discouraged and give up. It really makes me sad. It’s no wonder neighborhoods are quiet and vacant during the day. While I realize fear of predators is not the only reason –it is definitely a big one. Then to think even what should be fun community events are now even more complicated…not only do we have to worry about just keeping track of our kids but now we have to worry that someone is standing off to the side taking pictures and stalking them. It’s frustrating that nothing can be done about a stranger taking pictures of my children with out my knowledge.
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8-01-2007 @ 9:32PM
meta-DAD said...This is very sad and very scary. I live in LA and neighbors have seen him at local parks. With the current laws in place there is nothing that can be done. It is very frustrating.
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