Posted on 05/24/2007 8:43:34 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
"Stop, or else!"
That's the message from a local mom who is fed up with a self-proclaimed pedophile and his Web site that guides predators to young girls.
Jack McClellan admits he's a pedophile, whose full-time job is trolling for little girls. Once he finds them he puts that information on his site -- it's essentially a how-to guide for pedophiles.
"I'm mad, I'm mad somebody can invade our lives that way and it's okay, it's not okay!" says Sabrina, a concerned and determined Eastside mother.
Sabrina stopped Jack McClellan once, but he's back.
"The main thing -- I think they're cute, a lot cuter than women," McClellan said during a March interview.
Sabrina is determined to stop McClellan again. "I saw the site and the fear started welling up inside of me," she said.
What she saw was her own daughter's picture and personal details posted on McClellan's site. We won't use Sabrina's last name or her daughter's first name to protect the young girl's identity.
McClellan's site is a guide designed to help pedophiles find little girls from Bellingham to Tacoma. McClellan, Sabrina says, found her daughter at her school.
Even more disturbing to Sabrina -- she was with her daughter when Jack McClellan snapped the photographs. She was sitting about 50 yards away and had no idea McClellan was in the area, and no idea he was taking pictures of her daughter.
She warns parents to be vigilant everywhere and if strangers are lurking, ask questions. "I constantly am introducing myself to people I don't know, I tell them why I'm there and I ask 'why are you here?' "
She says challenge everyone, even school districts and their no-trespassing policies.
Now that McClellan's site is up again, Sabrina knows complaints aren't enough. She needs the law on her side.
State Senator Val Stevens says she was outraged when she learned McClellan's site was up and running again. She vowed in March when a Virginia Web provided pulled the plug on his site to keep him off-line.
"It's just a sicko that would want to use children in this manner," said Stevens.
The senator from the 39th District knows McClellan is not breaking any laws -- his first amendment rights allow him to do what he's doing.
So Stevens wants to change the law. She's drafting legislation for the next session. She says right now police officers are protected as Web sites can't post personal information about them.
"Why can't we do that for our children too?" asks Stevens. Her warning to McClellan: Stop or else.
"We're after you, guy, so help me!" warns Stevens.
"I think he needs to be put in his place, I think he needs to stop using children for his own selfish pleasures," says a determined Sabrina.
McClellan has not returned any calls for comment. His web site is now run by a Montreal-based web provider, and on the site McLellan says that because of "death threats" he won't make any public statements about his site.
Since McClellan is using a Canadian web provider, any Washington law could be toothless. Senator Stevens says she's aware of that and insists legislation has to start in our state - then she says she'll push for a federal law.
She's working with local child advocacy group Mother's Against Sexual Predators, who are just as determined as Sabrina.
Thanks for the new tagline!
I think he needs to be shot and then have his genitals cut off. Next, post pics of his dead, nude, emasculated body on his own website.
But that just my opinion.
Overall, I agree but my wife and I do a great job of communicating with our neighbors. New houses spring up on our street monthly and we have meet and greet BBq’s every few months. It has been great when someone needs a hand, everyone is willing to help. I think we are blessed.
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His place is in the ground.
I sometimes strongly believe that we should bring backt he concept of outlaw for child molesters. Tatoo their foreheads to let the world know they are fair game, outside the protection or sanctuary of the law. Declare that they are not allowed to live among civilization without risk to life or limb. Drive them into exile. OR we could just save a lot of time and quit releasing them from jail or letting them hide behind the ACLU skirts.
Newspapers ant TV stations use pictures of kids without releases all the time -- festivals in the park, first day of school, that kind of thing. They're generally careful to use wide shots and steer clear of identifiable pictures of individual kids. They do get releases of identifiable kids, especially if they interview them, but I'm not sure if that's required by law or is a widely-accepted ethical standard.
I looked at McClellan's site. It's profoundly creepy. What I did not see is what the story describes -- photographs of girls with or without personal information. I suspect McClellan consulted a lawyer and took those down. If the description in the story is accurate, then McClellan may have broken laws against invasion of privacy, possibly even stalking. And if anyone who read his site approached, harassed, or God forbid molested a young girl based on the information on his site, he could be on the hook for incitement or facilitation.
But in the absence of an actual crime, what I see on the site -- repeating that the content mentioned in the OP might have since been removed -- falls within first amendment territory. The best response would be to see to it that as many parents as possible know this creep's face, and post a gallery of pictures of him taking his pictures. And be ready to pounce if he posts any.
The best way to hit this ******* is in the pocketbook. Put the word out that all web traffic to his seedy site is being tracked and investigated... then try to get someone in law enforcement to do just that...”
What website?
So it is ok to look but not touch. Too bad that looking will only intensify the desire to touch. I am going to do some real armchair psych here. Men’s brain thrive on the visual. Their sexual desires are stimulated and encouraged by the images they find appealing. Porn, strip clubs, gawking at bikinis does not serve as an alternate outlet for desire. They serve as a means of normalizing a guys fantasy and desire. In some cases this is harmless and even good. Such as a guy enjoying seeing his wife in victoria secret lingerie. But in the case of a pederast it is very harmful.
Pederast ( I refuse to use the word pedophile with its greek suffix for love) are sick, evil and a danger to society. Only their complete separation from children will ever keep our children safe.
What’s needed is a hacker who can mess up his website ..... permanently.”
What website?
It's not illegal to photograph anyone in a public place. There are restrictions on how you can *publish* the photos without a release from the model.
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This monster should be arrested and thrown into the prison's general population where they will exact the punishment that he deserves.
Ho-hum... guess we’ll have to wait till Greta is talking about girls from his website turning up missing.
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If the government won’t take care of freaks like this, you can bet that “somebody” will....
What do you do, issue a plethysmograph to every man entering the park? Plenty of people like to watch children play in the park, not all of them parents, grandparents, aunts or uncles. For the vast majority of them, there's nothing sexual about this, and no threat.
That is clearly not true of Jack McClellan, who has a severe mental disorder; but that alone is not a crime. And I don't see any sane way to make illegal to watch children in the wrong state of mind. It would be likemakingit illegal to take pictures of someone else's house because you might be a burglar casing the joint -- sure, but you might also be taking a picture to show your realtor the kind of house you want to look at, or your landscaper how you'd like your yard to look, or you might just be an architecture buff.
FBI Seattle’s e-mail address is fbise@leo.gov.
“Where is the father and other men in the community to take care of this guy?”
That’s a damned good question.
"What do you mean funny? You mean the way I talk? Funny how? Like I'm a clown, I amuse you? How the f/k am I funny?"
The whole problem with this country is that doing things like this man is doing is not an affirmative defense for killing him.
Fix that problem and a whole lot more will get fixed overnite.
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