LOS ANGELES (AP) — A self-described pedophile is leaving California after a judge ordered him to stay away permanently from places where children gather, the man told a TV station for a report that aired Sunday.

"I have to leave the state, really, I can't live here under this Orwellian protocol," Jack McClellan told KABC. "It's nightmarish."

McClellan did not say where he planned to go, and he did not immediately return a message left on his cell phone by The Associated Press.

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McClellan has been unemployed and living out of his car since arriving in Southern California this summer from Washington.

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