An 18-year-old American college student who broke the mandatory 14-day quarantine protocol for visitors to the Cayman Islands returned home.
After spending a month behind bars in the Cayman Islands, Skylar Mack arrived at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta after his release from prison, reported ABC affiliate KABC-TV.
According to the news station, when asked how he felt about returning home, Mack said, “Very excited. Happy to be home. “
Mack, a medical student from Georgia, traveled to the Cayman Islands on November 27 to visit her boyfriend, Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, for a jet-ski competition. Mack said he isolated himself for two days and tested negative for Covid-19 before abandoning his tracking device and breaking the mandatory quarantine to participate in his boyfriend’s competition.
Mack and Ramgeet were initially sentenced to 40 hours of community service and a $ 2,600 fine after pleading guilty to violating Covid-19 protocols, but an appeals judge sentenced the pair to a stricter sentence for their “selfishness and arrogance. “reported the Cayman Compass.
Her family appealed to 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 deeply regret their actions.
“The two expressed genuine remorse, a genuine appreciation for the seriousness of what happened, a genuine plea for some form of forgiveness,” said Hughes.
Hughes said the laws in the Cayman Islands allow people who serve 60 percent of their sentence less than a year to be released on parole. The couple was due to be released in mid-January, he said at the time.
Upon her granddaughter’s return, Jeanne Mack told KABC-TV that she would get a better night’s sleep.
“It’s kind of hard to fall asleep when someone you love so much you know they’re not sleeping and they’re uncomfortable and I know she’s a tough girl, but she had to be scared,” said Jeanne.
According to the government’s Covid-19 panel, the Cayman Islands, a British overseas territory in the Caribbean with almost 65,000 people, recorded 380 cases and 2 deaths.
