Skylar Mack: 18-year-old jailed for breaking COVID 19 quarantine in Cayman Islands says he has learned his lesson

The 18-year-old sentenced to two months behind bars in the Cayman Islands for breaching quarantine rules now apologizes for what she did.

“It was a selfish decision. There’s no reason I can give you to give me a second chance. I don’t expect anyone to forgive me, but I’d like them to at least let me prove I learned from it,” Sylar said. Mack in an interview with GMA.

Mack traveled to the Caribbean island on November 27 and, according to the island’s rules, had to quarantine for 14 days.

But after two isolated days and a negative test of the COVID-19, Mack withdrew the wrist monitor, breaking his quarantine to see how his boyfriend, a professional skier, competed in a race.

“It was a conscious decision … I can’t give you any good reason,” Mack said.

Both Mack and her boyfriend, 24-year-old Vanjae Ramgeet, accused of aiding and abetting, were arrested and initially sentenced to pay a fine and to serve 40 hours of community service.

But after a legal process and back and forth, the couple was sentenced to two months in prison, and finally served 32 days.

“I deserved it. He was telling me, ‘You know what I made this mistake and it sucks, you know, but you did it yourself,'” Mack said.

Up to this point, Mack has never tested positive for COVID-19 and it looks like no one on the beach got sick that day. Still, Mack admits that if something bad had happened, she would have been responsible.

“I could never have lived with myself, knowing it could have been the reason someone might have even been sick, eating me.”

Meanwhile, her family is happy to be safe and return to America.

“I think I got the first call she says she was in trouble. Her boyfriend called while the authorities were talking to her,” her grandmother said. “You could probably hear him. He kept saying, ‘Please don’t get mad at her.’ Please don’t get mad at her. ”And I’m like“ but she knows it better ”.

Now that your granddaughter has returned to America?

“It’s the biggest relief I finally slept through all night,” her grandmother said. “And it’s that it’s hard to fall asleep when someone you love so much knows you don’t sleep, and you feel uncomfortable and I know she’s a tough girl but she had to be scared.”