Self-described pedophile Jack McClellan, who fled Washington and California amid public outrage over his habit of photographing young girls, said Wednesday that he has moved to Portland and plans to stay.

The 45-year-old McClellan has drawn national attention in recent months from media and concerned parents over a now-defunct Web site that featured photos he took of young girls in public places.

McClellan admits he is sexually attracted to young girls, though he said Wednesday he has not and will not do anything illegal. He said he won’t take pictures of children anymore because he now “sees it from the parents’ side.”

McClellan publicly announced his move to Portland via a Web site and in multiple media interviews. He said he wants to pre-emptively blunt efforts to “out” him by those who track his movements, adding that he feels media attention will help protect him from vigilantes and police harassment. He chose Portland for its “reputation as a Northwest haven for offbeat people.”

Really?  “Portland has a reputation as a haven for offbeat people”?
Also, what clued him in that parents might be see it as they do?
In other news of Internet usage…

Multnomah County sheriff’s office investigators are scrutinizing a corrections officer at the downtown jail for Internet postings made from his work computer in which he gloats about how fun it is to Taser people and brags about having crushed one inmate’s eye socket.

David B. Thompson, 30, recently wrote on an Internet message board that one of the more pleasurable parts of his job is when he gets to use his Taser, thus exposing people to the agonizing sensation of 50,000 volts of electricity pulsing through their bodies.

“Seeing someone get TASER’d is second only to being the guy pulling the trigger,” Thompson wrote on an Internet message board Aug. 25. “That is money. Puts a smile on your face.”

Asked by the Portland Tribune to review the posts and comment, Sheriff Bernie Giusto launched an internal investigation of Thompson that will examine, among other things, whether he lied while accusing an inmate of assaulting him as a way to justify having injured the inmate.

Well, Portland has a reputation for offbeat people, I hear say.

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