After spending more than a month in a Cayman Islands jail, a US teen has admitted she was wrong for breaking COVID-19 quarantine rules.
Skylar Mack, 18, from the state of Georgia, was released from custody on Friday and is back home in the US.
She was sentenced to two months in jail by a Cayman Islands judge because authorities said she broke quarantine rules to attend her boyfriend s jet ski competition.
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An 18-year-old college student from Georgia has been sentenced to four months in prison in the Cayman Islands after breaking the British Caribbean territorys COVID-19 protocol while visiting her boyfriend for a jet skiing competition, according to her family.(Courtesy Jeanne Mack)
January 20, 2021
Skylar Mack, an American college student who was imprisoned in the Cayman Islands last month for violating coronavirus restrictions, said in an interview Tuesday that she “deserved it.”
In a segment that aired on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Mack, 18, apologized for breaking the rules and said that any anger toward her was justified. She was released Friday after spending more than a month behind bars.
“I deserved it,” she said. “I was like, ‘You know what, I made this mistake, and it sucks, you know, but you did it to yourself.’ ”
After finishing the semester at Mercer University in Georgia in late November, Mack flew to the Cayman Islands to watch her boyfriend, Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, compete in the islands’ Jet Ski racing national championship.
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Skylar Mack, 18, and her 24-year-old boyfriend Vanjae Ramgeet, a professional jet-skier from the Cayman Islands were released from prison on Jan. 15 after a month in custody, People reported. The couple was originally handed down four-month sentences that were reduced to two months after a legal back and forth.
The duo ultimately served one month. Both were also ordered to perform 40 hours of community service and pay $4,400 in fines.
Mack, pre-med student at Mercer University from Loganville, Ga., was arrested for knowingly violating the islands mandatory coronavirus protocols to watch Ramgeet compete. She was supposed to quarantine for two weeks when she visited the country on Nov. 27.