Self-Proclaimed Pedophile is Taxpayer-Subsidized

Before his server was taken down, Jack McClellan blogged about taking pictures of little girls in parks, other public places, and near child care facilities. He is under a 3-year restraining order barring him from being within 30 feet of children, which, according to the Associated Press, he recently broke:

[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.

Since he didn't have proper notice about a hearing to argue the merits of the restraining order, he was released from jail.

More from the article:

McClellan is unemployed and has been living out of his car. ... 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.

This, to me, is a case of an individual taking advantage of the welfare system. Why should taxpayers have to subsidize an unemployed, depressed pervert?