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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26 (AP) — A self-described pedophile said he would leave California after a judge ordered him to stay away permanently from places where children gather, the man told a television station for a report that was broadcast Sunday. “I have to leave the state, really, I can’t live here under this Orwellian protocol,” the man, Jack McClellan, told the station, KABC. “It’s nightmarish.” Mr. McClellan did not say where he planned to go. He did not immediately return a message left on his cellphone by The Associated Press. He has been unemployed and living in his car...

Former "blogging pedophile" Jack McClellan has been released from jail, following his arrest last week for violating a restraining order in California. His release follows the prediction of observers in law enforcement, child advocacy, and the judicial system who think it will be difficult to take effective or even constitutional steps against McClellan to protect children. The 45-year-old self-professed pedophile was arrested August 13 for violating a three-year restraining order that required him to stay 30 feet away from all children. He was being held in jail with a $150,000 bail bond. But according to Associated Press, he was released...

A Superior Court judge Friday ordered self-described pedophile Jack McClellan to stay away from children for the next three years, issuing a permanent injunction sought by two local attorneys after McClellan had visited the Santa Clarita Valley to watch little girls. The judge issued a permanent injunction narrowing his initial order earlier this month and also issued a three-year-restraining order that was given to all law enforcement agencies in the state. "We will not be seeing him again," Rick Patterson, one of two lawyers who sought the injunction, said following Superior Court Judge Melvin Sandvig's ruling. "Jack will not be...

LOS ANGELES — Self-described pedophile Jack McClellan was told Friday to continue staying away from children by a judge who reissued a restraining order against him.

"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...