An 18-year-old American university student who violated the mandatory 14-day quarantine protocol for visitors to the Cayman Islands has returned home.
After spending a month behind bars in the Cayman Islands, Skylar Mack arrived at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta following her release from prison, ABC subsidiary KABC-TV reported.
According to the news station, Mack said when asked about how she feels about coming home: ‘Very excited. Happy to be home. ”
Mack, a student in Georgia, traveled to the Cayman Islands on November 27 to visit her boyfriend, 24-year-old Vanjae Ramgeet, for a jet-skiing competition. According to Mack, she spent two days isolating and testing negative for Covid-19 before leaving her tracking device and breaking the mandatory quarantine to attend her boyfriend’s competition.
Mack and Ramgeet were initially each sentenced to 40 hours of community service and a $ 2600 fine after pleading guilty to violating Covid-19 protocols, but an appeals judge sentenced the duo to a harsher sentence for their “selfishness”. and arrogance “, reports the Cayman Compass. .
Her family called on President Donald Trump for help after she was sentenced to four months in prison, which was later reduced to two months.
Last month, Jonathan Hughes, the couple’s lawyer, told NBC News that the two were incredibly sorry for their actions.
“They both expressed sincere remorse, a sincere appreciation for the seriousness of what was happening, a sincere appeal for some form of forgiveness,” Hughes said.
Hughes said laws in the Cayman Islands allow people serving 60 percent of their sentence of less than a year to be released on parole. The couple was expected to be released in mid-January, he said at the time.
Upon her granddaughter’s return, Jeanne Mack told KABC-TV that she would sleep better.
“It’s hard to fall asleep when someone you love so much knows he’s not sleeping, and that they’re uncomfortable and I know she’s a tough girl, but she had to be scared,” Jeanne said. .
According to the government’s Covid-19 dashboard, the Cayman Islands, a British overseas territory in the Caribbean with nearly 65,000 people, reported 380 cases and 2 deaths.
