Current photos of Amos Yee in US prison revealed, netizens speculate when he’ll be deported back to SG

In case you were wondering what had happened to Amos Yee, the rather vocal pro-paedophilia activist who was given a six-year jail sentence in December last year in the United States, you need not look any further. Recent photos of him have surfaced, and they are not pretty (or so netizens say).

Prison photos of convicted sex offender Amos Yee have emerged on the Internet, after they were discovered by a Hardwarezone user Saturday (Mar 19).

Here’s what he now looks like:

To recap, Yee, 23, had previously pleaded guilty to two charges of child pornography and grooming. He had solicited and exchanged nude photos with a girl from Texas who was only 14 at the time.

The two charges on which he was convicted are for child pornography and grooming. 

The charge of child pornography is a Class One felony and, under Illinois criminal law, the second-most serious type of offence. 

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His photos were taken from the Illinois Department of Corrections, which keeps a public record of current inmates on its website.

Yee’s projected parole date is Oct 6, 2023, about three years after he was first taken into custody.

Yee’s projected discharge date is Oct. 8, 2026.

According to his profile, he is also required to be on the sex offender’s registry.

Between February and July 2019, Yee asked the girl to appear in lewd poses on video and other mediums.

On the second charge of grooming, he knowingly used the WhatsApp messaging platform to seduce the girl and to solicit pictures of naked parts of her body from her. These images he then proceeded to distribute on the app. 

A divisive figure infamous for his run-ins with the law at an early age, Yee, has been widely condemned in Singapore, but his cause was taken up by local activists and international rights groups, and media.

Yee has been in the US since December 2016 and was granted political asylum the following year, after a judge ruled that he faced persecution in Singapore for his political opinions.

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