SINGAPORE — Singaporean Amos Yee has been taken into custody in the United States again, a month after he was released on parole halfway through his jail term.
According to a message from the victim notification network on Wednesday Singapore time, Yee, 25, was admitted under the custody and control of the Illinois Department of Corrections on Tuesday.
Yee was released on parole on Oct 7 about halfway through his six-year jail term for grooming a teenage girl online and asking her for naked pictures of herself. The court heard previously that Yee had befriended the victim, a 14-year-old girl, in February 2019. Yee was 20 then.On occasions, he asked her to engage in roleplay and “sexual fantasies”, said the prosecution. This was despite the victim telling him that she was 14 years old. This went on until July 2019.
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