Amos Yee Pang Sang [ a ] born 31 October is a Singaporean convicted child sex offender and former blogger, former YouTuber , and former child actor. A subsequent 32 police reports resulted in Yee being arrested in Singapore and charged with the intent to wound the religious feelings of Christians , obscenity, and "threatening, abusive or insulting communication". Yee's trial drew significant public interest.
The court found him guilty in May , which resulted in a jail sentence of four weeks. In August , Yee was arrested again, facing six charges for deliberate intent to wound religious feelings and two charges for failure to turn up for police interviews.
The presiding judge said that Yee's actions could "generate social unrest" and should not be condoned. Yee began serving his jail term on 13 October In December , Yee fled to the United States just before his call-up for National Service , immediately seeking political asylum. It was granted in March by the Chicago immigration court , despite being opposed by the U.
In November , Yee received death threats for supporting paedophilia in videos and blog posts. In October , Yee was arrested in Illinois on charges of solicitation in a case involving a year-old, and possession of child pornography ; [ 14 ] [ 15 ] he eventually pled guilty to two charges of child grooming and child pornography in exchange for a sentence of six years in prison, which he began serving in December at the Illinois River Correctional Center. Yee, who was raised Catholic , [ 22 ] and began attending Mass independently of his family, considered himself a practicing Catholic, but in he was reportedly "kicked out" of service as an altar boy after swearing during a meeting.
After meeting with a priest to question his confirmation , and studying skeptical websites and videos, he became an atheist. The New Paper described Yee as having taken on four different acting roles in his own film, which was described as a "twisted dark comedy " in which a boy tries to persuade his three friends to help a cancer-stricken girl.
