Jack McClellan, self professed, wannabe pedophile has been freed.
There were a bunch of facts that up until today weren’t available. Now, they are. And well…I told you so.
The restraining order prohibiting him to be near children was originally reported to be 50 foot. However, that number is actually 30 foot. And there was no expiration reported for how long this “temporary” restraining order would last. This number is three years.
The restraining order itself was deemed unconstitutional because Jack McClellan wasn’t given an opportunity to appeal that decision. With that charge going away, then you can’t really charge him with violating anything, because well he didn’t.
At the end of the day with the current laws, it doesn’t matter what Jack McClellan does. He can give vivid details of what he wants to do to your child. He can take pictures of your child and post them on his website. He can infiltrate your life, and as long as he doesn’t brush into the stalking laws or anything…he’s perfectly legal.
This case is an important one because it is going to set the precedence for other cases like it across the globe. This is one to watch. If McClellan turns out to have some sort of brain in his head, he’ll get himself into therapy and not let there be a chance that he could actually do something horrible to a child (or anyone else for that matter).
But, if he doesn’t. If Jack McClellan in the future does something, acts on his urges and ends up raping and/or killing a child, then we will have a new law named after that child that prohibits talking about things like this on the internet. If you are going to talk about it, there will be strict set of rules we will be forced to adhere to.
My thoughts on all of it this is that it’s scary. In Battle Creek, Michigan we had a teacher. That teacher adopted children over the years, never harmed a student, never harmed his adopted children. He attended church regularly and appeared by all counts to be a normal, contributing member of society. However, child pornography content was found on his home pc. When asked for an explanation, he told law enforcement that he was writing a book on the topic. That man was arrested. He was removed from society and incarcerated. Life as he knew it was obliterated. And he never hurt a child, he never said he wanted to hurt a child, he never talked about it and he certainly didn’t stalk other peoples children and exploit their little lives on the internet by telling us the terrible things he’d like to do to the children that he’s already targeted.
This man’s life is ruined. Sure the book story that he gave law enforcement was probably a big line of crap, but he unlike Jack McClellan didn’t actually do anything. The reason he was given for his entire world being flipped upside down was that if it weren’t for people like him to look at the pictures, then there wouldn’t be a need for child pornography, exploitation of the children for the pictures, and for children to suffer the abuse at all. Talk about treating the symptom instead of the cause. Here, this man gets arrested for having possession of a copy of a picture. What about the photographer? What about the person who put that child in the position of being exploited? What about the person actually doing the damage to the child?
This will be an interesting story to watch unfold. Here’s hoping that Jack can keep Richard in his pants. I’m hoping someday to be able to look at our judicial system and find the common sense in it that is so lacking. But, the likelihood of that happening in my lifetime is right up there with Paris Hilton becoming a marine biologist.
