Skylar Mack, an 18-year-old woman from Georgia, is facing a four-month prison sentence in the Cayman Islands for violating the territory's COVID-19 quarantine protocols for visitors.
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Mack flew to Grand Cayman on Nov. 27 to visit her boyfriend, Vanjae Ramgeet, a 24-year-old resident who was participating in a Jet Ski competition, their attorney, Jonathon Hughes, told BuzzFeed News. She tested negative for COVID-19 on arrival, according to a Cayman Islands Government press release.
As per the Caribbean nation's regulations, Mack was required to self-isolate for 14 days at a residential address upon her arrival. She was fitted with a geofencing wristband and issued a cellphone to monitor her movements during the isolation period, Hughes said. She also signed a document that forbade her from removing her wristband and leaving her residence during the 14-day period.
She deliberately broke quarantine and went to a public event and now has to pay the price for it. My guess is both she and her boyfriend figured they'd get a slap on the wrist, if even that. From the details of the story, that, apparently, was the plan all along.
It didn't work out that way. Apparently, enough people were breaking the quarantine law that the Grand Cayman government strengthened the law and Mack got caught up in it.
And now, her family is all over the morning news shows with a variant of an affluenza defense.
Cry me a river. As the song goes, don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
I think she should be freed and reunited with her family. Because after all her name is Skylar. Doesn't the Cayman Islands understand that rules don't apply to Skylar? If they must then perhaps her lawyer can get her house arrest at a beachfront villa. Oh the stories she'll have for midge and Muffy when she gets back.
ReplyDeleteBetter call Rudy, (((America's Lawyer)))
ReplyDeleteThe bad thing for the kid is, instead of a local story that would have blown over soon, her family is making a huge thing out of it. It will follow her for a long time.
ReplyDeleteStupidity is often a life long affliction without a vaccine and the
ReplyDeletecure is often very painful.
That's what lies from the top do to a weak willed people of
me, myself, and I.
Eck!