三十年来，这起残酷的悬案让警方感到困惑。1992年至1995年间，一名身份不明的袭击者在安大略省南部的公园暴力捆绑了三名年仅8岁的儿童。他对他们每个人进行了性侵犯，但每次都逃脱了惩罚。
For three decades, the brutal cold case confounded police. An unidentified attacker had violently tied up three children as young as eight in southern Ontario parks between 1992 and 1995. He sexually assaulted each of them and got away every time.
在安大略省布兰普顿的一个法庭上，周一，检察官告诉陪审团，DNA证据最终如何将每次袭击与现年67岁的理查德·尼尔联系起来。
At a court in Brampton, Ont., on Monday, prosecutors told a jury how DNA evidence had finally linked each attack to Richard Neil, now 67.
随着尼尔的审判开始，检察官沙津·卡里姆详细介绍了这些袭击事件（涉及排尿和肛门插入）以及当时如何向警方报告这些袭击事件。
As Neil's trial got underway, Crown attorney Shazin Karim went into graphic detail about the attacks — involving urination and anal penetration — and how they were reported to police at the time.
卡里姆说，受害者是一名8岁男孩、一名10岁男孩和一名15岁女孩。
The victims were an eight-year-old boy, a 10-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl, Karim said.
“他们是孩子，”她说，并向陪审团强调一些证据“可能很难听到”。“尼尔对他面临的17项指控表示不认罪，包括绑架、性侵犯造成身体伤害和服用镇静药物。
"They were children," she said, underlining to the jury some of the evidence "may be difficult to hear." Neil has pleaded not guilty to the 17 charges he's facing, including kidnapping, sexual assault causing bodily harm and administering a stupefying drug.
卡里姆告诉陪审员，近年来，由于美国进行的遗传谱系分析，调查人员首次将他确定为嫌疑人这项调查技术涉及将犯罪现场DNA与自愿提交给直接面向消费者的家谱服务的基因数据进行比较，但警方在20世纪90年代还无法使用。
Karim told the jurors investigators had first identified him as a suspect in recent years thanks to genetic genealogy analysis conducted in the U.S. The investigative technique — which involves comparing crime scene DNA to genetic data voluntarily submitted to direct-to-consumer genealogical services — was unavailable to police in the 1990s.
卡里姆说，警方后来发现了进一步的证据，明确确认尼尔是袭击者。
Karim said police later uncovered further evidence that positively identified Neil as the assailant.
根据王室向陪审团的开场陈述，尼尔的指纹与警方多年前从袭击者携带的袋子和瓶子中提取的指纹相符。
According to the Crown's opening statement to the jury, Neil's fingerprints matched those lifted by police from a bag and a bottle carried by the attacker all those years ago.
官方称，他的DNA还与从三个犯罪现场（布兰普顿的诺顿广场公园、基奇纳的伊德伍德公园和奥克维尔的怀尔德伍德公园）中提取的样本相匹配。
His DNA also matched samples recovered from each of the three crime scenes — Brampton's Norton Place Park, Idlewood Park in Kitchener and Wildwood Park in Oakville — the Crown said.
尼尔在法庭上穿着深色西装夹克和白色纽扣衬衫，坐在他的律师利奥·阿德勒旁边。在卡里姆的开场陈述中，被告似乎瞥了一眼陪审员。
Neil wore a dark suit jacket and white buttoned shirt in the courtroom, seated next to his lawyer Leo Adler. The accused appeared to glance over at jurors during Karim's opening statement.
根据安大略省高等法院提交的起诉书，尼尔还被指控在奥克维尔袭击女孩的当天制作“构成儿童色情的录像带”。受害者的身份被禁止发表。
According to an indictment filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Neil is also accused of making "a video tape recording constituting child pornography" on the date of the Oakville attack on the girl. The victims' identities are covered by a publication ban.
卡里姆告诉陪审团，就业记录显示，1992年在邻近的基奇纳发生袭击事件时，尼尔在滑铁卢的加拿大邮政工作。
Karim told the jury employment records show Neil worked at Canada Post in Waterloo at the time of the assault in neighbouring Kitchener in 1992.
更重要的是，检察官说，当警方在2024年尼尔被捕后查获他的电子设备时，他们发现了照片和视频，这些照片和视频指向对尿液饮用的“兴趣”。
What's more, the prosecutor said when police seized Neil's electronic devices following his arrest in 2024, they found photos and videos pointing to an "interest" in urine drinking.
卡里姆说，受害者对所发生事情的描述没有争议。但她表示，辩方对尼尔是袭击者的指控提出异议。审判仍在继续。
Karim said the victims' accounts of what happened is not contested. But she said the defence disputes the allegation that Neil was the assailant. The trial continues.