佛罗里达州坦帕 — 佛罗里达州的一名联邦法官已下令对托马斯·马克尔进行精神鉴定，以确定他是否具备应诉能力。马克尔是英国萨塞克斯公爵夫人梅根·马克尔的疏远父亲，被指控为儿童性侵犯罪犯。
TAMPA, Florida - 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.
美国联邦治安法官林赛·格里芬于11月6日在一份两页的命令中写道，哈里王子82岁的岳父在首次出庭时的表现，包括“记忆缺失”，引发了她对其是否具备面对起诉能力的疑虑。
US Magistrate Judge Lindsay Griffin in Tampa wrote in a two-page order on Nov 6 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.
托马斯·马克尔于11月6日因一项联邦持有儿童性虐待材料罪被捕，涉案材料包括两张他与一名裸体未成年女孩摆姿势的露骨照片，以及其他他与处于不同脱衣阶段儿童在一起的图片。
Thomas Markle was arrested on Nov 6 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.
其中一张照片显示，一名裸体女孩身处一个看似菲律宾某连锁汽车旅馆的房间内，马克尔此前曾在那里居住一段时间。
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.
根据作为刑事起诉书一部分提交法庭的FBI宣誓书，联邦特工从马克尔自2008年起在洛杉矶租用的储物单元中查获了涉案材料，这些材料是幻灯片、胶卷底片和书籍的一部分藏品。
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.
FBI局长卡什·帕特尔于11月6日就该案发表评论称，马克尔“以犯罪行为针对无辜儿童，企图窃取他们的纯真”。
Commenting on the case on Nov 6, FBI director Kash Patel said Markle “targeted innocent children and sought to steal their innocence through his criminal actions”.
据英国媒体《每日邮报》报道，马克尔最近居住在佛罗里达州莱克兰，当时他是一家养老院的病人。
Markle was most recently residing in Lakeland, Florida, where according to British media outlet the Daily Mail, he was a nursing home patient.
在11月6日的听证会上，马克尔未进行答辩，法官允许他以人身担保获释，条件是接受居家监禁和电子监控。
No plea was entered during the Nov 6 hearing, and the judge permitted Markle to be released from custody on personal recognisance on condition that he submit to home detention and electronic monitoring.
总部设在坦帕的联邦公设辩护人玛丽·克莱尔·沃尔夫受指派代表马克尔，她未立即回复路透社的置评请求。
The Tampa-based federal public defender assigned to represent Markle, Mary Claire Wolf, did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
在听证会后的法庭命令中，格里芬法官表示，她发现“有合理理由相信”马克尔“可能患有精神疾病或缺陷，导致其精神无行为能力，以至于无法理解针对他的诉讼的性质和后果，或无法妥善协助其辩护”。
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 defence”.
格里芬表示，她的认定基于关于马克尔健康状况的未公开信息、他的“高龄以及记忆缺失”。
Griffin said she based her findings on unspecified information provided about his health condition, his “advanced age, and lack of recall”.
法官还指定法医精神病学家阿米·杰罗迪莫斯博士对马克尔进行独立精神病学检查，并作出其病情诊断，以及关于其是否具备出庭受审精神能力的认定。
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.
格里芬设定了11月20日作为杰罗迪莫斯向法庭提交报告的最后期限。
Griffin set a Nov 20 deadline for Gerodimos to report back to the court.