Lawmakers join calls for leniency for Georgia college student jailed in the Caymans
Two of Georgia’s lawmakers have appealed the U.S. Embassy in the Cayman Islands to request leniency for Skylar Mack, the 18-year-old Mercer University pre-med student locked up for breaking COVID-19 restrictions.
Mack, along with her boyfriend Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, have been behind bars since Dec. 15. After both pleading guilty, a court on the island revised her sentence from four months to two months. Still, the family thinks that is too harsh of a punishment. She s scared to death, she s terrified over there. She s by herself. She has no one, she s having panic attacks, her mother, Rebecca Burt, said in a recent interview on Fox & Friends.