SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) A U.S. college student and her boyfriend have been sentenced to four months in prison in the Cayman Islands for violating strict COVID-19 measures following a recent ruling that will be appealed, their attorney said Thursday.
Skylar Mack, 18, of Loganville, Georgia, and Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, of the Cayman Islands, have been in prison since Tuesday, when the ruling was issued. They had both pleaded guilty, but their attorney, Jonathon Hughes, said he will argue for a less severe sentence next week.
“They’re two young people who have never been in trouble before,” he said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. “This is the first time they’ve had interaction with police, the courts, prison.”
Family of Mercer student jailed in Cayman Islands for violating COVID-19 rules calls on Trump to intervene
Skylar Mack, an 18-year-old pre-med student at Mercer University, was sentenced to four months in prison after breaking her mandatory quarantine. Author: CBS News Updated: 4:45 PM EST December 21, 2020
The family of a U.S. college student who was imprisoned for violating coronavirus restrictions in the Cayman Islands is calling on the Trump administration to intervene. 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. She just wants to come home, her grandmother, Jeanne Mack, told the Today show on Monday. She knows she made a mistake, she owns to up to that, but she s pretty hysterical right now.
An 18-year-old college student’s white privilege ran into a brick wall in the Cayman Islands and has landed her in prison.
Skylar Mack, of Georgia, is facing a four-month sentence after removing her electronic tracking device and leaving her residence before her mandatory 14-day quarantine was finished – so she could watch her boyfriend in a jet-ski competition.
The college student and her boyfriend, 24-year-old
Vanjae Ramgeet of the Cayman Islands, were both sentenced to four months for violating the strict COVID-19 measures. They had both pleaded guilty, but their attorney,
Jonathon Hughes, said he will argue for a less severe sentence next week.
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Update: An appeals court reduced the American college student s sentence to two months in prison. Read the latest here.
The family of a U.S. college student who was imprisoned for violating coronavirus restrictions in the Cayman Islands is calling on the Trump administration to intervene. 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. She just wants to come home, her grandmother, Jeanne Mack, told the Today show on Monday. She knows she made a mistake, she owns to up to that, but she s pretty hysterical right now.