The 18-year-old Mercer University junior was sentenced to four months. Author: Natisha Lance (11Alive) Updated: 12:34 AM EST December 22, 2020
LOGANVILLE, Ga. The family of a Mercer University pre-med honor student is asking President Donald Trump for help.
The 18-year-old was sentenced to four months in a Cayman Islands prison for violating its coronavirus restrictions.
The family believes the island is trying to make an example out of Skylar Mack. The Walton County teen is locked up in the Cayman Islands serving a four-month prison sentence for breaking the island’s strict COVID-19 quarantine rule. She’s just an overall good, balanced kid who made a stupid decision, said the teen s grandmother, Jeannie Mack.
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22 Dec 2020
The family of an American college student jailed for reportedly violating coronavirus restrictions in the Cayman Islands is asking the Trump administration for help.
“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,” CBS News reported Monday.
The young woman flew to Grand Cayman on November 27 and was ordered to quarantine for 14 days. She was also given a smart wristband and a cell phone to track her movements, her attorney, Jonathon Hughes, explained.
Mack reportedly signed a document and agreed not to leave isolation without permission and not to take off her wristband, the CBS article continued:
Skylar Mack, 18, of Georgia, was jailed for four months for breaking quarantine in the Cayman Islands
On November 29, she skipped out on a mandatory 14-day quarantine when her boyfriend, Vanjae Ramgeet, picked her up to attend a jet-skiing competition
Ramgeet, 24, was also ordered to spend four months behind bars for aiding the American in her crime
However, on Tuesday, the Cayman Islands Court of Appeals reduced both of their sentences to two months
The Cayman Islands, a territory of nearly 62,000 people, has reported more than 300 coronavirus cases and two deaths