Georgia Teen Jailed In Cayman Islands Returns Home

LOGANVILLE-GRAYSON, GA — A Georgia teenager is back home after spending more than a month in jail in the Cayman Islands for breaking the country’s coronavirus quarantine rules, according to WSB-TV.

Skylar Mack, an 18-year-old Mercer University medical student from Loganville, flew into Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Friday where she reunited with her mother, the news station reported.

Mack arrived in the Caymans on Nov. 27, 2020 and was required by law to have stayed in quarantine for at least 14 days due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, she removed her tracking bracelet and left her residence two days after her arrival to watch her boyfriend, 24-year-old Vanjae Ramgeet, compete in a jet ski event, People magazine reported. The couple was then accused of interacting with people at the event for more than seven hours without face masks.

The couple was jailed Dec. 15 after the Cayman Islands’ top prosecutor pulled their original, more lenient sentences of $2,600 fines and 40 hours community service for each of them. Instead, they were sentenced to four months in jail — but after appealing the prison sentence, it was reduced to two months.

Mack told WSB-TV reporters she was happy to be home. Her grandmother, Jeanne Mack, who appealed her granddaughter’s prison sentence to President Donald Trump, said she is relieved to have Skylar back home.

“It’s the biggest relief. I finally slept through the night,” Jeanne Mack told WSB-TV. “It’s kind of hard to fall asleep when someone you love so much you know that they’re not sleeping.”