Georgia student violates Cayman Islands coronavirus quarantine laws, jailed for 4 months: reports
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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.
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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A Georgia medical student and her boyfriend were sentenced by a Cayman Island judge to four months in jail for violating quarantine laws.
Grand Court Justice Roger Chapple handed down the sentence to 18-year-old Skylar Mack and Vanjae Ramgeet, a Cayman Island-based competitive jet skier, after overturning a previous ruling, which required 40 hours of community service and a $2,600 fine for each person, FOX News reported.
“This was as flagrant a breach as could be imagined,” Chapple said, according to the Cayman Compass. “It was borne of selfishness and arrogance.”
“This was entirely deliberate and planned, as evidenced by her desire to switch her wristband the day before to a looser one that she was then able to remove,” Chapple continued.
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Skylar Mack Cayman Islands coronavirus breach. Pictured, right hand side, US woman s Jet-ski athlete boyfriend, Vanjae Ramgeet.
Skylar Mack Cayman Islands coronavirus breach. Pictured, right hand side, US woman’s Jet-ski athlete boyfriend, Vanjae Ramgeet.
Skylar Mack Cayman Islands coronavirus breach. Georgia student & athlete boyfriend, Vanjae Ramgeet sentenced 4 months jail over failure to obey local quarantine requirements.
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Georgia student and her watersports-athlete boyfriend have been sentenced to four months by a
Cayman Islands 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. amid the ongoing