Overview
- A VINE notice confirmed Yee’s release on parole from Danville Correctional Center on Nov 20 at about 7:15am local time.
- Notifications earlier showed a brief Nov 7 release followed by immediate re-custody, with a supporters’ blog attributing the delay to housing requirements away from children.
- Illinois records list Yee as a registered sex offender, and the corrections department has not set a projected parole discharge date.
- Yee was sentenced on Dec 3, 2021, to six years for possessing child pornography and grooming a 14-year-old in 2019, with the term backdated to his Oct 2020 arrest.
- A supporters’ blog says ICE served him papers that could trigger asylum revocation and deportation, which officials have not detailed publicly, and Singapore’s defence ministry says he would face Enlistment Act charges if returned.