THE STEVE WILKOS SHOW AFTER PEDOPHILE
Now reports from today on Jack McClellan: Self-described pedophile was released from jail Tuesday after prosecutors dropped a criminal case accusing him of violating a judge's order prohibiting him from being within 30 feet of children anywhere in California for three years. Prosecutors could not pursue the case against Jack McClellan, 45, after they determined the order was invalid because the judge failed to schedule and give McClellan proper notice of a hearing required to argue the merits of imposing such a long-lasting order before it is issued. McClellan was arrested Aug. 13 for investigation of violating the order when he was found near a child care center at the University of California, Los Angeles. He had a camera with him at the time, but he told a local TV station that there wasn't any film in it. McClellan was arrested again - several hours later - this time for trespassing after he did an interview with the TV station on university grounds. He had been told not to return to the campus after his first arrest. Prosecutors did not pursue the trespassing charges. Superior Court Judge Melvin Sandvig issued the order Aug. 3 requiring McClellan to stay at least 30 feet away from every person under age 18 in California for a three-year period, said Nick Velasquez, a spokesman for the Los Angeles city attorney's office. A three-year order amounts to what is termed a preliminary injunction, and cannot be issued without the statutory hearing and notice requirements, according to the city attorney's office. Superior Court spokeswoman Pat Kelly said Sandvig could not comment because the case is pending. A call to his chambers went unanswered late Tuesday. A cell phone message left for McClellan was not returned. McClellan is unemployed and has been living out of his car. He stirred controversy in Southern California when he arrived this summer from Washington state, where he had lived with his parents. 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," congregated.
His server took his Web site down more than a month ago. 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. McClellen also has a hearing set for Friday on a temporary restraining order preventing him from coming within 10 yards of children in the city of Santa Clarita in northern Los Angeles County, authorities said.
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Innocent little children are being molested and probably murdered because of his damn website. He tells other pedophiles where to find these children and what to do with these children.
This person needs to be locked away for good. A 3 year restraining order in California to stay away from every child in Cali is not even close to being enough. Not to mention he isn't just in California. He lives in Washington dip shits!
We've already started labeling people for life, by making them register as sex offenders. This is contrary to the idea that a person should be given (and is entitled to) a clean slate once they've paid their debt to society. In other words, we're punishing people for their orientation, for what they find attractive, regardless of whether they've committed a crime. This is certainly the case with Jack McClellan, who hasn't committed any crime, and still has people all over the country against him. This is basically The Scarlet Letter all over again.
Allowing people to express who they are, free of judgment as long as they don't commit any crimes, is paramount to basic human rights. Once a society starts thinking it's okay to punish or ostracize individuals when no crime has been committed, all hope is lost.
He's a disgusting person and he should be put on an island with no one but himself to talk to.
I personally think that it's unconstitutional, to judge a man who has not committed a crime. Now if he had admitted to touching on children or the cops had proof that he did touch on children that would be a different thing altogether. Right now he's being condemned for being honest, remember the commercials about abuse (where the child abusers all wear shirts saying I abuse my child) then the commercial goes on to say now if only it was that easy to know who an abuser was... Yet here everyone is willing to drag him down because they don't agree with him, instead of trying to help him with what would seem either a psychological problem or a compulsion issue. What is being done now would be like being arrested for having to make sure you washed your hands (even if you had washed them 10 times already) I mean the
Amendment says
"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence."
Yet there is no Parent in this world (unless they are uncaring, unfeeling and a child molester themself) who can be "Impartial Jury" yet the fact remains that somehow a judge managed to arrange papers for a restraining order that covered Every Child in a state.
The fact that the Government is getting away with doing things like this only adds to the problem, it shows that justice is no longer blind it and the scales are not evenly balanced but instead are weighed and favoritism rules the courts!!! In the end I feel sorry for this country because every time a court try's something like this (let alone gets away with it) it just shows that they no longer follow the founding principles of our Country, what's worse though is that most of the people out there don't seem to have a problem with it unless it affects them directly.