The family of an American teenager jailed in the Cayman Islands for breaking COVID-19 protocols to attend a jet skiing competition is now appealing directly to President Trump for help, NBC News reported Monday. Skylar Mack, 18, did not participate in the mandatory 14-day isolation period before visiting the islands to cheer on her boyfriend, Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, as he participated in the competition. “She knows she made a mistake,” Mack’s grandmother, Jeanne Mack, said on NBC’s Today show on Monday. “She owns up to that, but she’s pretty hysterical right now.” Mack, a pre-med student at Mercer University in Georgia, is currently serving a four-month sentence.
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