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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) A U.S. college student and her boyfriend have been sentenced to four months in prison in the Cayman Islands for violating strict COVID-19 measures following a recent ruling that will be appealed, their attorney said Thursday.
Skylar Mack, 18, of Loganville, Georgia, and Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, of the Cayman Islands, have been in prison since Tuesday, when the ruling was issued. They had both pleaded guilty, but their attorney, Jonathon Hughes, said he will argue for a less severe sentence next week.
“They’re two young people who have never been in trouble before,” he said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. “This is the first time they’ve had interaction with police, the courts, prison.”
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The family of 18-year-old Skylar Mack, a college student from Georgia, have spoken out after their daughter and her 24-year-old boyfriend were sentenced to four months in prison breaking Cayman Islands COVID-19 protocols. Mack and her boyfriend Vanjae Ramgeet were arrested and charged while on vacation, allegedly violating the mandatory 14-day isolation period.
Her parents have directly asked the U.S. government for help, She cries, she wants to come home, said her grandmother Jeanne Mack. She knows she made a mistake. She owns up to that, but she s pretty hysterical right now.
The two are the first people to have been sentenced under the current penalties for breaking the isolation protocols on the British territory, which is home to approximately 64,000 people. While there hasn t been a significant amount of cases there, with around only 311 confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic, if someone were to leave isolation early they risk
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The family of a U.S. college student who was imprisoned for violating coronavirus restrictions in the Cayman Islands is calling on the Trump administration to intervene. Skylar Mack, an 18-year-old pre-med student at Mercer University in Georgia, was sentenced to four months in prison after breaking her mandatory quarantine. She just wants to come home, her grandmother, Jeanne Mack, told the Today show on Monday. She knows she made a mistake, she owns to up to that, but she s pretty hysterical right now.
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Skylar Mack, of Georgia, is facing a four-month sentence after removing her electronic tracking device and leaving her residence before her mandatory 14-day quarantine was finished – so she could watch her boyfriend in a jet-ski competition.
The college student and her boyfriend, 24-year-old
Vanjae Ramgeet of the Cayman Islands, were both sentenced to four months for violating the strict COVID-19 measures. They had both pleaded guilty, but their attorney,
Jonathon Hughes, said he will argue for a less severe sentence next week.