当地时间5月9日，美国纽约一个陪审团裁定，美国前总统特朗普（Donald Trump）应对性侵和诽谤女作家卡罗尔（E. Jean Carroll）的行为负责，并需向她支付总计500万美元的赔偿。
A federal jury in New York on Tuesday found former US president Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
The jury also found Trump defamed Carroll by denying her claims. She was awarded 5 million US dollars in damages.
当地时间5月9日，美国纽约，卡罗尔走出曼哈顿联邦法院。图源：Getty Images
据《纽约时报》，由六名男性和三名女性组成的陪审团于5月9日下午进行了数小时的审议，随后对裁决达成一致。
报道称，在这起民事案件中，联邦陪审团发现，79岁的卡罗尔没有像她长期以来所声称的那样，充分证明近30年前，特朗普在曼哈顿一家百货公司的更衣室里对她实施“强奸”。不过，陪审团认为，特朗普对较轻程度的性侵害负有责任。
In the civil case, the federal jury of six men and three women found that Ms. Carroll, 79, a former magazine writer, had sufficiently proved that Mr. Trump sexually abused her nearly 30 years ago in a dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan. The jury did not, however, find he had raped her, as she had long claimed.
报道还称，针对特朗普的性行为不端（sexual misconduct）的指控多达十几项，但这是迄今为止唯一一项在陪审团面前获得成功的指控。
卫报指出，此次判决是首次在法律上将美国前总统列为性侵犯者。但由于这是民事案件而非刑事案件，特朗普所面临的唯一法律制裁是被罚款。
The verdict for the first time legally brands a former US president as a sexual predator. But as it is the result of a civil not criminal case, the only legal sanction Trump will face is financial.
除了200万美元的赔偿，陪审团还判决卡罗尔获得另外300万美元的赔偿，因特朗普多次公开宣称卡罗尔的指控是“骗局（a hoax and a lie）”和“彻头彻尾的诈骗（a complete con job）”。
据路透社，特朗普缺席了此前的审判，他在社交平台上发文称，这一判决是“耻辱”，并表示“我完全不知道这个女人是谁”。
Trump was absent throughout the trial which began on April 25. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump called the verdict a "disgrace" and said, "I have absolutely no idea who this woman is."
卡罗尔于2019年首次提起诽谤诉讼，并指控特朗普于1990年代中期对她实施“强奸”，遭到特朗普坚决否认。2022年11月底，卡罗尔再次对特朗普提起诉讼。
Trump said that he would continue campaigning for the White House even if convicted of a crime.
In addition to his criminal charges in New York, the former president is facing several other criminal investigations: One is related to his attempts to overturn election results in Georgia, another is into his efforts to hold on to power in Washington after losing re-election and a third is into his handling of classified documents at his home in South Florida.
编辑：李金昳
来源：新华社 中国新闻社 路透社 纽约时报 CNN BBC 卫报
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