SINGAPORE: Singaporean Amos Yee’s projected discharge date has been introduced ahead by greater than a yr.
Based on jail information 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 Middle – a medium-security jail – from Stateville Correctional Middle, 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 back into custody after violating the conditions of his parole – a couple of month after he was initially released on Oct 7.
He had been about midway by his six-year jail time period for grooming a teenage woman on-line and asking her for bare footage of herself.
Yee was sentenced in December 2021 after pleading responsible to prices of grooming and possessing youngster pornography.
Sixteen different prices have 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 courtroom beforehand heard that Yee had befriended the sufferer, then a 14-year-old woman, 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 have interaction in roleplay and “sexual fantasies”, the prosecution stated.
This was regardless of Yee figuring out that the woman was 14 years outdated.
US Marshalls arrested him in October 2020 at his condo 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 courtroom, regardless of opposition from the Division of Homeland Safety.
In 2015, Yee was jailed in Singapore for wounding non secular emotions by making remarks about Christians. A few yr later, Yee was jailed once more and fined on an analogous cost, this time for making remarks about Christians and Muslims.