SINGAPORE: Singaporean Amos Yee’s projected discharge date has been introduced ahead by greater than a yr.
In response to jail data on Tuesday (Dec 12), Yee’s new projected discharge date is Apr 24, 2025. His earlier projected discharge date was Oct 8, 2026.
A message from the sufferer notification community on Tuesday confirmed Yee was transferred to Danville Correctional Heart – a medium-security jail – from Stateville Correctional Heart, a maximum-security jail.
CNA has contacted the Illinois Division of Corrections to ask why Yee’s projected discharge date was moved ahead by greater than a yr, and why he was transferred to Danville.
In November, the 25-year-old was taken again into custody after violating the situations of his parole – a couple of month after he was initially launched on Oct 7.
He had been about midway by his six-year jail time period for grooming a teenage lady on-line and asking her for bare footage of herself.
Yee was sentenced in December 2021 after pleading responsible to expenses of grooming and possessing youngster pornography.
Sixteen different expenses had been dismissed as a part of a plea deal that Yee agreed to. The jail time period was backdated to his arrest in October 2020.
The court docket beforehand heard that Yee had befriended the sufferer, then a 14-year-old lady, in February 2019. He was 20 at the moment.
He met the sufferer on-line and Yee repeatedly requested her to ship him bare photographs of herself. On a number of events, Yee requested her to interact in roleplay and “sexual fantasies”, the prosecution stated.
This was regardless of Yee figuring out that the lady was 14 years previous.
US Marshalls arrested him in October 2020 at his residence in Chicago and he was on remand till his sentencing.
It has been greater than six years since Yee was granted asylum by a US immigration court docket, regardless of opposition from the Division of Homeland Safety.
In 2015, Yee was jailed in Singapore for wounding spiritual emotions by making remarks about Christians. A couple of yr later, Yee was jailed once more and fined on the same cost, this time for making remarks about Christians and Muslims.
