SINGAPORE: Singaporean Amos Yee is within the custody of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after he was launched on parole from jail lower than every week in the past.
Yee, 27, is presently held at Dodge Detention Facility in Juneau, Wisconsin, in line with checks on the ICE detainee database on Monday (Nov 24).
On Nov 20, Yee was released on parole from Danville Correctional Center, Illinois, the place he had been serving time for possession of kid pornography and grooming a baby.
In response to ICE, persons are detained to “safe their presence for immigration proceedings or elimination” from the nation.
They could even be taken into custody if ICE determines they’re a “public security or flight threat” throughout the custody dedication course of.
CNA has contacted US ICE for extra data, together with whether or not Yee can be deported to Singapore.
Yee was granted asylum by the US in 2017 regardless of opposition from the Division of Homeland Safety. Earlier than that, he had been jailed twice in Singapore for wounding spiritual emotions.
In October 2020, he was arrested by US marshals in Chicago for possession of kid pornography and grooming a 14-year-old lady.
A US court docket heard that Yee had befriended the sufferer in February 2019. They started an “on-line courtship”, throughout which he repeatedly requested for her bare pictures.
On events, he requested her to interact in position play and “sexual fantasies”, stated the prosecution. This was regardless of the sufferer telling him that she was 14 years outdated.
Yee used WhatsApp to “seduce, solicit and lure” the sufferer and distributed images of her on-line. This went on till July 2019, the court docket heard.
Yee pleaded responsible to the costs in December 2021 and he was sentenced to 6 years’ jail, with the jail time period backdated to his arrest date.
He was granted parole in October 2023, however was taken again into custody a few month later for violating parole conditions.
