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SINGAPORE – Former child actor Amos Yee is set to plead guilty on Sept 7 to charges that he had avoided National Service obligations.<\/p>\n
Yee, 27, was handed three charges under the Enlistment Act<\/span><\/a> in March.<\/p>\n According to court documents, he failed to report for the national service pre-enlistment medical screening and had remained outside the country without a valid exit permit after leaving for the US in December 2016 to seek asylum.<\/p>\n Yee is said to have left Singapore without a valid exit permit from Dec 13, 2015, to April 19, 2016, and from Dec 15, 2016, to March 19, 2026.<\/p>\n During this period, he allegedly failed to report for national service medical screening from April 26, 2016, to March 19, 2026.<\/p>\n Yee fled to the US after repeated run-ins with the law in Singapore over comments he made that were derogatory to Christians and Muslims. He was granted asylum in the US in 2018.<\/p>\n He was deported from the US on March 19<\/span><\/a> following his conviction by a grand jury in an Illinois court\u00a0for solicitation and possession of child pornography<\/span><\/a>. His record was expunged from the website of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.<\/p>\n On his arrival at Changi Airport, Yee was arrested by enlistment inspectors from the Central Manpower Base.<\/p>\n He was offered bail of $10,000 on March 26<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n Offenders who flout NS enlistment rules can\u00a0face a fine of\u00a0up to $10,000,\u00a0a jail term of\u00a0up to three years, or both.<\/p>\n In May, Yee was assaulted by an 18-year-old at Suntec,<\/span><\/a> where an anime convention was being held.<\/p>\n Bosco Chun Ho Wang was later arrested and charged in court for being a public nuisance<\/span><\/a> on May 11. Chun was also handed another charge for voluntarily causing hurt.<\/p>\n His case is still pending before the courts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE – Former child actor Amos Yee is set to plead guilty on Sept 7 to charges that he had avoided National Service obligations. Yee,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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