法官下令湯瑪斯・馬克爾在兒童色情案中接受精神鑑定

史蒂夫・戈爾曼報導By Steve Gorman

11月9日（路透社）——佛羅里達州一名聯邦法官已下令，英國薩塞克斯公爵夫人梅根・馬克爾（Meghan Markle）關係疏遠的父親湯瑪斯・馬克爾（Thomas Markle）接受精神鑑定，以判定他是否具備精神能力，能夠就指控他為兒童性掠奪者的罪名應訊。Nov 9 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Florida has ordered a psychiatric evaluation for Thomas Markle, the estranged father of Britain's Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, to determine if he is mentally fit to answer to charges accusing him of being a child sex predator.

美國聯邦治安法官琳賽・葛瑞芬（Lindsay Griffin）週五在坦帕發布的兩頁命令中寫道，哈利王子82歲岳父首次出庭時的情況，包括「缺乏記憶」，讓她心中產生疑問，不確定他是否具備受刑事追訴的能力。US Magistrate Judge Lindsay Griffin in Tampa wrote in a two-page order on Friday that the initial court appearance of Prince Harry's 82-year-old father-in-law, including a "lack of recall," raised questions in her mind as to whether he was competent to face prosecution.

湯瑪斯・馬克爾週五遭逮捕，面臨一項聯邦持有兒童性虐待材料罪名；相關材料包括兩張露骨照片，內容為他本人與一名未成年裸女合影，另有其他他與不同脫衣程度兒童合照的影像。Thomas Markle was arrested on Friday on a single federal count of possessing child sexual abuse material, including two explicit photographs of himself posed with a naked underage girl and other images of him with children in various stages of undress.

其中一張照片顯示，一名裸女位於一個看似屬於菲律賓某汽車旅館連鎖業者的房間內；馬克爾先前曾在菲律賓居住過一段時間。One of the photos showed a naked girl in a room that appears to be part of a motel chain in the Philippines, where Markle previously resided for some time.

根據作為對馬克爾提出刑事控訴一部分並提交法院的聯邦調查局（FBI）宣誓書，聯邦探員從馬克爾自2008年起在洛杉磯租用的倉儲空間中，查扣了涉案材料；這些材料是一批幻燈片、底片和書籍中的一部分。According to an FBI affidavit filed in court as part of the criminal complaint lodged against Markle, federal agents seized the material in question, part of a cache of slides, film negatives and books, from storage units Markle had rented in Los Angeles since 2008.

聯邦調查局局長卡什・帕特爾（Kash Patel）週五評論此案時表示，馬克爾「鎖定無辜兒童，並試圖透過其犯罪行為奪走他們的純真」。Commenting on the case on Friday, FBI Director Kash Patel said Markle "targeted innocent children and sought to steal their innocence through his criminal actions."

馬克爾最近住在佛羅里達州雷克蘭；據《每日郵報》報導，他是療養院病患。Markle was most recently residing in Lakeland, Florida, where according to the Daily Mail he was a nursing home patient.

週五聽審期間，馬克爾未提出答辯；法官准許他以具結方式獲釋，條件是他必須接受居家監禁及電子監控。No plea was entered during Friday's hearing, and the judge permitted Markle to be released from custody on personal recognizance on condition that he submit to home detention and electronic monitoring.

指派代表馬克爾的坦帕聯邦公設辯護人瑪麗・克萊兒・沃爾夫（Mary Claire Wolf），未立即回應路透社的採訪請求。The Tampa-based federal public defender assigned to represent Markle, Mary Claire Wolf, did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

葛瑞芬在聽審後發布的法院命令中表示，她認定有「合理理由相信」馬克爾可能「患有精神疾病或缺陷，使他在精神上不具備能力，以致無法理解針對他的訴訟程序性質與後果，或無法適當協助自己的辯護」。In a court order after the hearing, Griffin said she found "reasonable cause to believe" that Markle may "suffer from a mental disease or defect rendering him mentally incompetent to the extent that he is unable to understand the nature and consequences of the proceedings against him or to assist properly in his defense."

葛瑞芬表示，她的認定依據包括就其健康狀況所提供但未具體說明的資訊、他的「高齡，以及缺乏記憶」。Griffin said she based her findings on unspecified information provided about his health condition, his "advanced age, and lack of recall."

法官也指定法醫精神科醫師艾咪・傑羅迪莫斯（Dr Amie Gerodimos）對馬克爾進行獨立精神鑑定，並對他的狀況提出診斷，同時就他是否具備受審精神能力作出認定。The judge also appointed Dr Amie Gerodimos, a forensic psychiatrist, to conduct an independent psychiatric exam of Markle and to render a diagnosis of his condition with a finding on his mental fitness to stand trial.

葛瑞芬將傑羅迪莫斯向法院回報的期限訂為11月20日。Griffin set a November 20 deadline for Gerodimos to report back to the court.

（史蒂夫・戈爾曼洛杉磯報導；辛西亞・奧斯特曼編輯）(Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)