SINGAPORE: Singaporean Amos Yee is within the custody of america 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 keeping 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 toddler.
In line with ICE, persons are detained to “safe their presence for immigration proceedings or removing” from the nation.
They might 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 could 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 non secular emotions.
In October 2020, he was arrested by US marshals in Chicago for possession of kid pornography and grooming a 14-year-old woman.
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 photographs.
On events, he requested her to have interaction in function 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 This was regardless of the sufferer telling him that she was 14 years outdated.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.
