Jeanne Mack, grandmother of the U.S. student jailed in the Cayman Islands for violating quarantine laws, speaks out on ‘America’s Newsroom.’
A Georgia college student jailed for four months in the Cayman Islands for neglecting to follow novel coronavirus-related quarantine guidelines faces stringent consequences because local officials needed to make a statement, her grandmother told Fox News on Friday.
Jeanne Mack, the grandmother of Mercer University student Skylar Mack, told Fox News’s Trace Gallagher the 18-year-old has posted negative results for COVID-19 each of the six times she’s been tested.
The elder Mack appeared on Fox News’s America’s Newsroom on Friday morning, when she said the family is very disappointed in Skylar, who hopes to become a doctor, but that Cayman Island officials want to hang her for this.
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Georgia student and her watersports-athlete boyfriend have been sentenced to four months by a
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An 18-year-old student from Georgia and her watersports-athlete boyfriend were sentenced to four months by a Cayman Island court after she slipped out of her wristband monitor to watch him compete at a local race instead of quarantining after arriving from the U.S., according to local reports.
Skylar Mack and her boyfriend, Cayman Islands-based competitive Jet Skier Vanjae Ramgeet were jailed immediately after their sentences were handed down on Tuesday. An island judge issued the four-month term after overturning a previous sentence of 40 hours of community service and a $2,600 fine each, according to a report from the Cayman News Service.
Update: Jan. 19, 2021
The young Georgia woman who was jailed for just over a month in the Cayman Islands for knowingly violating coronavirus restrictions said “I deserved it,” according to media reports.
Speaking to ABC News, Skylar Mack, 18, a student from Loganville, Georgia, admitted to flouting the Caribbean territory’s mandatory two-week quarantine period during a November visit.
“The anger, the disappointment it’s all justified,” she said. “I deserved it. I was like, ‘You know what? I made this mistake, and it sucks, but you did it to yourself.”
“I mean, it was a conscious decision of being like, you know what but I also was just… I don’t I can’t give you a good reason for it,” Mack said.