Page 18 - Skylar Mack News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana
American teen jailed for violating quarantine in Cayman Islands gets reduced sentence
cbsnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbsnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Family Of US Student Jailed For Quarantine Violation Pleads For Her Release
3 months ago She s pretty hysterical right now, said the grandmother of the 18-year-old student, Skylar Mack, who broke quarantine in the Cayman Islands.
The Lede
Skylar Mack and her boyfriend, Vanjae Ramgeet, were sentenced to four months in prison for violating the Cayman Islands s mandatory 14-day quarantine period for visitors. After receiving a negative test, Mack broke quarantine and slipped past authorities to a beach where her boyfriend was competing in a Jet Ski race.
Key Details
The Cayman Islands, home to some 65,000 residents, have registered 316 COVID infections and two deaths as of this week.
Jeanne Mack joins Hannity to call for lighter punishment for 18-year-old Skylar Mack
The grandmother of a Georgia college student who has been imprisoned in the Cayman Islands for violating quarantine protocols admitted Tuesday that her granddaughter had made a bad judgement call.
However, Jeanne Mack claimed on Hannity that a week before Skylar Mack, 18, arrived in the Caribbean archipelago, a Canadian couple had breached quarantine not once, but up to 20 times. They actually had pictures of that couple in bars and swimming pools, laying on the beach, walking on the beach, [in] grocery stores, she went on. They had breached [quarantine], it s my understanding, upwards of 20 times. And their punishment was a $1,000 fine and they went home. They went back to Canada.
GEORGE TOWN, CAYMAN ISLANDS (NYTIMES) - A panel of judges in the Cayman Islands on Tuesday (Dec 22) cut the sentence of an American college student who violated the territory s coronavirus laws to two months from four months after her lawyers argued that the sentence was too harsh.
A lawyer for the student, Skylar Mack, 18, and her boyfriend, Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, said they were sorry and asked for the forgiveness of the people of the Cayman Islands. Whilst it was our hope that Skylar would be able to return home to resume her studies in January, we accept the decision of the court and look forward to receiving its written reasons in due course, the lawyer, Mr Jonathon Hughes, said in a statement.
Cayman Judge Cuts Georgia Teen s Sentence to 2 Months for Violating COVID Protocols
980waav.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from 980waav.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.