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Singaporean Amos Yee on Thursday was released from a United States prison on parole.
Yee, now 27, was serving time at Danville Correctional Center in Illinois after being sentenced in 2021 to six years’ jail by a US court for possession of child pornography and grooming.
According to a victim’s information network, Yee had been released on November 7 and immediately taken back into custody.
He was then released again on November 20.
Yee has been registered as a sex offender, according to checks on the Illinois State Police’s offender registry.
This is not the first time he has been released on parole.
In October 2023, Yee was granted parole halfway through his six-year sentence. But he was taken back into custody about a month later for violating parole conditions.

Yee was sentenced on December 3, 2021, after pleading guilty to grooming a 14-year-old girl online and asking her for naked pictures.
Another 16 charges were dismissed as part of a plea deal that Yee agreed to, and his jail term was backdated to his arrest in October 2020.
The court heard previously that Yee, then 20, had befriended the victim in February 2019.
They began an “online courtship”, during which he repeatedly asked for her naked photos.
The prosecution detailed how Yee’s requests for role-play and “sexual fantasies” continued until July 2019, even after the victim informed him she was only 14.
The court heard that he had used WhatsApp to “seduce, solicit and lure” the victim, then distributed photographs of her online.
Yee was arrested by US marshals at his flat in Chicago.
It has been more than eight years since Yee was granted asylum by a US immigration court, despite opposition from the Department of Homeland Security.
In 2015, Yee was jailed in Singapore for wounding religious feelings by making remarks about Christians.
About a year later, Yee was jailed again and fined on a similar charge, this time for making remarks about Christians and Muslims.
This story was first published by CNA


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Amos Yee, a registered sex offender, was sentenced in 2021 to six years’ jail by a US court for possession of child pornography and grooming


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Singaporean Amos Yee released on parole from US prison after child porn sentence

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Amos Yee, a registered sex offender, was sentenced in 2021 to six years’ jail by a US court for possession of child pornography and grooming