乔治·吉布尼于7月因39项猥亵攻击罪和一项未遂强奸罪被定罪。
George Gibney was convicted in July of 39 counts of indecent assault and one count of attempted rape.
吉布尼，77岁，将因在1970年代和1980年代虐待运动员而面临正义的审判，此前受害者、警方、记者等人经过数十年的追踪和引渡努力才使其得以归案。自他开始性侵儿童已逾半个世纪，期间他曾作为爱尔兰奥林匹克游泳教练享有声望，随后逃往美国，如今乔治·吉布尼将面临正义的审判。
Gibney, 77, will face justice for abusing athletes in the 1970s and 80s after decades of effort to track and extradite him More than half a century after he started sexually abusing children, and enjoyed prestige as Ireland’s Olympic swimming coach before fleeing to the United States, George Gibney is to face justice.
这位77岁的男子将于周一在都柏林中央刑事法院受审，罪名是他在1970年代和1980年代虐待了四名年轻的女运动员。
The 77-year-old is to be sentenced at the central criminal court in Dublin on Monday for abusing four young female athletes in the 1970s and 1980s.
这是受害者、警方、记者及其他人士数十年努力追踪并将吉布尼从美国引渡回爱尔兰的成果。
It will be the culmination of a decades-long effort by victims, police, journalists and others to track and extradite Gibney from the US.
他在7月的审判中被判有罪，罪名为39项猥亵攻击和一项未遂强奸，此案备受关注，庭审中详细描述了他令人痛心的虐待行为。
He was convicted in July of 39 counts of indecent assault and one count of attempted rape after a closely watched trial that detailed harrowing abuse.
“这对那些孩子来说是一种 vindication（平反）。”儿童福利倡导者埃文·达利说道，他曾协助在佛罗里达追踪吉布尼。“这种虐待改变了他们一生。在我看来，这个人根本没有良知。”1980年代爱尔兰在游泳项目上国际成绩平平，但吉布尼因在都柏林南部建立特洛伊俱乐部以及在全市各泳池培养新秀而成为备受尊敬的知名人物。他曾担任爱尔兰代表队教练，参加1984年洛杉矶奥运会和1988年汉城奥运会。吉布尼常告诫他的游泳队员：“永不放弃”和“坚持住”。
“It’s vindication for those children,” said Evin Daly, a child welfare advocate who helped to track Gibney in Florida. “The abuse shaped some of their lives. The guy had no conscience, in my opinion.”Ireland had little international success in swimming in the 1980s but Gibney became a high-profile, respected figure for establishing the Trojan club in south Dublin and for coaching emerging talent at pools around the city. He was Ireland’s coach for the Olympic games in Los Angeles in 1984 and Seoul in 1988. Gibney urged his swimmers to “never give up” and to “hang in there”.
在他被指控在泳池、汽车及其他地点侵害儿童后，吉布尼曾被控27项猥亵和乱伦罪，但1993年，爱尔兰最高法院裁定，由于涉案时间过长，他不应再受审，这一决定令受害者震惊。
After allegations emerged that he preyed on children at pools, in his car and other locations he was charged with 27 counts of indecency and carnal knowledge, but in 1993 the supreme court ruled that he could not face trial because of the time that had elapsed since the alleged offences, a decision that stunned his victims.
尽管获释，但吉布尼臭名昭著。他先搬到苏格兰，再到美国，在那里获得签证并重新开始生活，先后居住在科罗拉多州、加利福尼亚州和佛罗里达州，主要从事低级别文职工作。
Free but notorious, Gibney moved to Scotland, then the US, where he obtained a visa and built a new life, living in Colorado, California and Florida and working mostly in low-level clerical jobs.
几位记者继续深入调查吉布尼的罪行，其中包括《爱尔兰时报》的贾斯汀·麦卡锡，她于2009年出版了一本名为《深度欺骗》的书。
Several journalists continued to dig into Gibney’s crimes, including Justine McCarthy of the Irish Times who wrote a 2009 book, Deep Deception.
当时担任名为“一个孩子国际”（One Child International）的儿童保护倡导组织首席执行官的法医社会学家达利，帮助媒体定位并持续跟踪该掠食者。
Daly, a forensic sociologist who was then the chief executive of a child protection advocacy group called One Child International, helped the media to locate and keep tabs on the predator.
“我们提供了数据和资源，”达利说，她是一名位于佛罗里达州的儿童福利案件法庭顾问。“有一次，吉布尼搬家了，因为他所住的公寓楼邻居得知他被指控为性犯罪者，于是转而反对他。”2020年，由BBC委托制作、马克·霍根主持的10集播客系列《乔治·吉布尼在哪里？》重新引起了关注和审视。
“We provided data and resources,” said Daly, a Florida-based court consultant on child welfare cases. “At one point Gibney moved because his neighbours in the apartment complex got wind of the fact that he was an accused sex offender and they turned on him.”In 2020 a 10-part podcast series, commissioned by the BBC and presented by Mark Horgan, titled Where is George Gibney? revived attention and scrutiny Four victims who were minors when they were abused made statements to Irish police between 2020 and 2022, leading to fresh charges, an extradition warrant and his arrest and return to Ireland last year.
2020年至2022年间，四名在受害时为未成年人的受害者向爱尔兰警方作出陈述，导致新增指控、引渡令发布，以及去年他被逮捕并遣返回爱尔兰。七月定罪后，四名受害者向法庭陈述了虐待带来的影响。
After the conviction in July four victims told the court of the impact of the abuse.
一人表示她仍保留着“极其个人化且创伤性的记忆”，并且在超过半个世纪里一直怀抱着“秘密的羞耻、痛苦和困惑”。她说，这种虐待是一个“被冻结的噩梦”。
One said she retained “intensely personal and traumatic memories” and had harboured a “secret shame, hurt and bewilderment” for more than half a century. The abuse was a “frozen nightmare”, she said.
另一位受害者当时只有九岁，她告诉坐在轮椅上、神情淡漠的吉布尼，他滥用了信任的职位，而她所承受的羞耻、罪恶感和尴尬如今应由他来承担。她说，吉布尼主导了“一个曾经快乐健康儿童的毁灭”，而这个孩子无力用言语表达自己的痛苦。
Another victim, who was nine at the time of the assaults, told Gibney, who sat impassively in a wheelchair, that he had abused his position of trust and that her burden of shame, guilt and embarrassment was now his. Gibney had presided over “the destruction of a previously happy and healthy child” who was powerless to verbalise her torment, she said.