Amos Yee’s assailant charged in court

Neo Gim Huah, the 49 year old assailant of Amos Yee was charged in court
on Monday morning. He admitted hitting Amos and confessed in a CNA
article, ‘Through a translator, he said that Yee had been disrespectful
and had insulted Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew, and that he
only wanted to teach Yee a lesson as an elder and did not want to hurt
Yee.’



Neo’s slapping of Amos was