The Georgia student 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.
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.