"Teen blogger Amos Yee found guilty of two charges - CNA 12 May 2015
SINGAPORE: Teen blogger Amos Yee Pang Sang was on Tuesday (May 12) found guilty and convicted of two charges - one for making offensive or wounding remarks against Christianity and another for circulating obscene imagery.
A third charge, for the 16-year-old's statements on the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew in a YouTube video, was withdrawn.
In the plea for sentencing Yee's lawyer Alfred Dodwell said the teen does not want to be considered for probation and wants to be sentenced according to a jail term. The prosecution said the main sentencing consideration should be for rehabilitation and called for counselling and appropriate probation."
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"Amos Yee's attacker gets 3 weeks' jail - My Paper May 12, 2015
A self-employed man was sentenced to three weeks in jail yesterday for slapping teenage blogger Amos Yee outside the State Courts last month. Neo Gim Huah, 49, was charged and sentenced in court yesterday. He was not represented and gave a long mitigation plea in Mandarin, explaining why he did it. He told the court earlier that he wanted to teach Yee a lesson.
Neo, who runs his own air-conditioning and electrical-engineering business, said he had taken offence at portions of the video posted online by Yee, which he found disrespectful to Singapore's founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew."
Facts can be stranger than fictions! LOL!!
Lessons for me are:
1. Amos is found guilty of the 2 charges with the one relating to late Mr Lee Kuan Yew withdrawn;
2. the man who slapped Amos for the disrespect shown to the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew got 3-week jail term. Good that he is a self-employed who owned his own business. Otherwise, he would be without a job after this jail sentence!;
3. will Amos get the probation and the associated counselling many felt he needs? It seems like Amos will be the deciding factor. If he agreed to the terms and conditions, which there will be, he can get his probation and counselling help. Including professional medical psychiatry help. Otherwise, he will get thrown into prison if the sentence is more than the period he had been in remand, or with a fine, which will create a criminal record for him in his young life. Maybe he will feel restricted by this. Maybe he won't if he is going to be a self-employed person like that man who slapped him! How ironical can the whole situation be. Almost farcical!!
Anyway, these 2 cases are done and dusted. Hopefully they will fade from the public memories.
The next big case outcome to watch is the long drawn multi-millions dollars CHC trial. Will the state gets the justice it sought or the defendants will walk away as they did not commit ANY crimes as charged?
SINGAPORE: Teen blogger Amos Yee Pang Sang was on Tuesday (May 12) found guilty and convicted of two charges - one for making offensive or wounding remarks against Christianity and another for circulating obscene imagery.
A third charge, for the 16-year-old's statements on the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew in a YouTube video, was withdrawn.
In the plea for sentencing Yee's lawyer Alfred Dodwell said the teen does not want to be considered for probation and wants to be sentenced according to a jail term. The prosecution said the main sentencing consideration should be for rehabilitation and called for counselling and appropriate probation."
AND
"Amos Yee's attacker gets 3 weeks' jail - My Paper May 12, 2015
A self-employed man was sentenced to three weeks in jail yesterday for slapping teenage blogger Amos Yee outside the State Courts last month. Neo Gim Huah, 49, was charged and sentenced in court yesterday. He was not represented and gave a long mitigation plea in Mandarin, explaining why he did it. He told the court earlier that he wanted to teach Yee a lesson.
Neo, who runs his own air-conditioning and electrical-engineering business, said he had taken offence at portions of the video posted online by Yee, which he found disrespectful to Singapore's founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew."
Facts can be stranger than fictions! LOL!!
Lessons for me are:
1. Amos is found guilty of the 2 charges with the one relating to late Mr Lee Kuan Yew withdrawn;
2. the man who slapped Amos for the disrespect shown to the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew got 3-week jail term. Good that he is a self-employed who owned his own business. Otherwise, he would be without a job after this jail sentence!;
3. will Amos get the probation and the associated counselling many felt he needs? It seems like Amos will be the deciding factor. If he agreed to the terms and conditions, which there will be, he can get his probation and counselling help. Including professional medical psychiatry help. Otherwise, he will get thrown into prison if the sentence is more than the period he had been in remand, or with a fine, which will create a criminal record for him in his young life. Maybe he will feel restricted by this. Maybe he won't if he is going to be a self-employed person like that man who slapped him! How ironical can the whole situation be. Almost farcical!!
Anyway, these 2 cases are done and dusted. Hopefully they will fade from the public memories.
The next big case outcome to watch is the long drawn multi-millions dollars CHC trial. Will the state gets the justice it sought or the defendants will walk away as they did not commit ANY crimes as charged?
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