Pedophile Jack McClellan Seeks ADVICE on New Web Site

By Tori Richards

ARLINGTON, Wash. (Crime Library) — A self-professed pedophile who caused a media sensation over his now-defunct "how to" web site on ogling little girls has found a new forum for his essays.

Jack McClellan, 45, has been contributing to the "GirlChat" board on another pedophile web site, seeking advice about possibly starting up a new site and how to deal with threats he has received after all the media attention.

McClellan ran his own web site, "Seattle-Tacoma-Everett Girl Love," until March 28 when a reporter from a local newspaper in Western Washington ran a story about him. Fox News jumped on the story and interviewed McClellan, providing a face to the anger parents felt over having photos displayed of their children on his site. The pictures were taken by McClellan at public events like parades and festivals.

Since then, an anti-McClellan web site has been launched at www.JackMcClellan.com that includes a blog where angry parents have been posting tirades.

"Since the Fox News hysteria aired several weeks ago, I've seen numerous threats of violence toward me on the Internet — but they were all from relatively anonymous bloggers, posters and callers — and probably most were just hot air and not worth tracking down," McClellan wrote on the GirlChat board to an anonymous sympathizer. That person urged McClellan to document everything and go to the police with anything substantial.

Neighbors in McClellan's Seattle-area home town of Arlington have been busy. One person had distributed flyers to mailboxes and newspaper boxes that "contain the false accusation that I approached some girls in the neighborhood at a slumber party," McClellan wrote.

Others have "reportedly gotten a judge to issue some sort of a restraining order stating that I'm not to be walking by their houses anymore," he wrote, adding that he was supposed to personally receive a copy of it from a sex crimes detective.

The sympathizer then suggested that McClellan post a surveillance camera in his neighborhood to document the activities of anyone passing out fliers in mailboxes.

"A visit from the postal inspectors should straighten out her crooked ways," the sympathizer wrote.

 But the colleague stopped short of condoning McClellan's picture-posting habits when he mulled over the possibility of a new web site.

McClellan wrote: "At a minimum, the more provocative pics (with just the backsides of one or two girls) will not be returning — but given the outcry and anger I've experienced in the past month, I'm thinking that posting photos of any girls does more harm than good to our cause of GL acceptance."

In response, the sympathizer added: "Honestly dude, and I mean this straight: I think you photographing anybody, except celebrities, and posting them on your web site is creepy. If I found my own picture on a web site, say buying some cotton candy at a fair, I would be pissed...Don't paint yourself as a parasite."

To that, McClellan announced that he had been out "GL-event hopping" and saw "oodles and oodles of cute LGs." He posted a rating of three Seattle area fairs.

The chat ended with the colleague telling McClellan that he looked like the character of Jack Bauer, who is played by Kiefer Sutherland on the hit TV show "24."

Detectives with the Snohomish County Sheriff's Department say they are aware of McClellan's activities, but can't arrest him because he hasn't done anything illegal. However, he has had restraining orders issued against him in the past, including one for an elementary school, said sheriff's spokeswoman Rebecca Hover.

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