LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Attorney General Dana Nessel has filed an emergency parole appeal in Washtenaw County as she seeks to reverse the parole granted to a convicted rapist.

Forty-four-year-old John Lee had been sentenced to life in prison in 1999 for kidnapping and raping a 13-year-old girl when he sexually assaulted her on the floor of his mother’s garage.

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Lee had been scheduled to be paroled this week but Nessel said there is no “sufficient evidence of rehabilitation or meaningful remorse, and he should remain in prison.”

A status conference has been scheduled for January 30 and he will remain in prison.