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18 year old U.S. Student Jailed for Quarantine Violation in the Cayman Islands, Family Pleads for Her Release
- Thread starter WrenchNinja
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When I read the thread title I pictured what the girl might look like in my mind.....
-- and I was basically 99% correct.
-- and I was basically 99% correct.
She obviously thought by leaving her tracking device at home nobody would notice.
Rich white people who continue to flout the rules can get fucked.
"broke her quarantine after two days and took off her electronic monitoring bracelet"
"broke her quarantine after two days and took off her electronic monitoring bracelet"
Because you go with an enormous amount of privilege, not caring about what the law in a foreign country is and have every intent to break it when you get there.
This is just another story of people travelling for no good reason during a pandemic and then putting local populations at risk for... a jetski competition? What would you do instead?
No one should be put in jail for these kind of violations. Neither of them should be there.
Fuck em both. They played a stupid game and won a stupid prize. This is America though and it is a miscarrage of justice when a pretty white girl breaks foreign laws and has to face the consequences. Don't they understand that she is very sorry, that she got caught, and has learned a valuable lesson.
4 months seems reasonable?
I'd argue a release sooner on good behavior but I somehow think there's nothing to be shown that she's taking it seriously
I'd argue a release sooner on good behavior but I somehow think there's nothing to be shown that she's taking it seriously
Pretty and, blonde. It will get lots of eyeballs. Hard to sympathize with people who break rules probably because they know they are on easy mode in life
Lol
She has/had a tracking device and took it off
Why do I care about rich people wanting to travel, fuck em
She has/had a tracking device and took it off
Why do I care about rich people wanting to travel, fuck em
And everything I've read about this case has been focused solely on the pretty white girl. The guy is barely mentioned in several of the articles. Let's put it this way, if she was a black woman I doubt this story gets even a fraction of the coverage.
The Golden Sir @screaminbutcalm Mar 12, 2019
Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
I mean, she slipped off a tracking device designed to keep her in quarantine. Where is my sympathy supposed to come from here.
Oh I absolutely agree! I doubt anyone would have even covered it if she weren't a white woman.
I was just pointing out that my problem is jailing people for these violations in general, not her specifically.
1.Its a pandemic, you're entitled enough to go to the caymen islands
2. you have 1 rule to quarantine for 2 weeks
3. You break the rule and expect zero consequences?
4. She purposefully switched her band to a looser one because she had planned it all along.
Shes reaping what she sowed.
Four months is kind of nuts, but I am not opposed to significant consequences like a very large fine on top of a couple weeks of confinement and then being kicked out of the country.
I really hate fines cause if you can afford it then no big deal but if you are poor then you are screwed. Same crime different result. If it is a massive fine then they will set up a gofund me. Look at me, I am white, give me money.
I would give her community service for 6 months and a ban from the island.
I would give her community service for 6 months and a ban from the island.
This crazy asshole slipped off a tracking bracelet to skip out on mandatory quarantine to go jet skiing. There's no situation you can put her in that she's any more of a danger of spreading the virus than leaving her to her own devices.
1000%
This is a non-story and yet it somehow made the New York Times.
Cayman only has had 316 TOTAL Covid cases, and 2 deaths.
TOTAL.
Plus this gal tested negative.
She ain't going to be the Covid Mary of the island's prison population. She should get the full four months.
TOTAL.
Plus this gal tested negative.
She ain't going to be the Covid Mary of the island's prison population. She should get the full four months.
Well she's pretty hysterical facing consequences for her actions so it definitely deserves media attention.
For people who think jailing is too harsh, what's the practical solution in this scenario other than imprisonment?. Just ask people very nicely to comply with the quarantine rules and hope that they do so? Hope that someone doesn't violate it while infected, and spread the virus to other people? Trying to understand what should be done instead to keep people safe from those who have a blatant disregard for others.
probably have less chance of getting it in jail in the cayman islands than you do here free as a bird in the US
Good. Keep her in jail for the entire period of time -- she's earned it. If it had been some sort of honest mistake, fine, maybe a slap on the wrist is acceptable begrudgingly, but she went out of her way to not comply and should be punished harshly. Willfully broke the law and put a lot of people in danger.
She put herself and others in danger, fully deserved IMO. The only reason this is getting publicity is because she is a pretty white blond teenager.
In Italy they were handing out 3-month jail sentences for breaking quarantine and up to 3000 Euro for not wearing a mask in terms of sanctions IIRC.
Not that far off
In Italy they were handing out 3-month jail sentences for breaking quarantine and up to 3000 Euro for not wearing a mask in terms of sanctions IIRC.
Not that far off
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I'm not gonna cheer for it but I'm tired of people who deliberately break the law like this getting news coverage designed to gain sympathy simply because they're white. You know if this was a black girl instead, this article would not exist. Black people have to suffer greater punishment for lesser or non-existent offenses that need to be caught on camera to get anywhere near this attention and still the news coverage will never be made with as much sympathy as it would for a white person. Especially a young, blonde white woman.
Exactly.
if we extend this out to America, it just gives cops one more thing to abuse/harass/kill poor and/or minority people over.
Gee I wonder why they have so few? I am so sick of tired of people like them putting others in constant danger for their own selfish reasons.
Except in an enclosed space like prison. Neither she nor the man should go to prison.
I don't think this is a problem that is solved by jail time or fines. In America, both will disproportionately affect minorities. The jail time spreads the virus faster.
I posted earlier about prisons and Covid in the United States. Essentially, you spread the virus faster.
If that's the case, the punishment doesn't fit the crime. If the punishment is to prevent spread of the virus then imprisoning her doesn't make sense since she's negative and won't spread the virus. Same with the man if he tested negative.