Longreads Best of 2019: Investigative Reporting
Alice DriverLong-form journalist and translator based in Mexico City.
Alice Driver 驻墨西哥城的长期记者和翻译。
## Stories About My Brother (Prachi Gupta, Jezebel)
## 关于我兄弟的故事（Prachi Gupta、Jezebel）
Gupta investigates her brother’s death with tenderness and intimacy, providing us with a rare glimpse into the way toxic masculinity affects men.
古普塔以温柔和亲密的方式调查她哥哥的死亡，让我们难得一睹有毒的男子气概如何影响男性。
She recounts childhood memories of her brother Yush and his evolving views on power and masculinity, which have been shaped by his family and his mostly white classmates and peers.
她讲述了她哥哥尤什的童年记忆，以及他对权力和男子气概不断变化的看法，这些看法是由他的家人和他的大多数白人同学和同龄人塑造的。
As Gupta grows up, she embraces feminism, which her brother defines as a “female supremacy movement,” and from that point on, their relationship deteriorates.
随着古普塔长大，她接受了女权主义，她的哥哥将其定义为“女性至上运动”，从那时起，他们的关系恶化了。
Gupta, haunted by her brother’s death, digs deep to push through the pain of mourning and discover the cause.
古普塔因哥哥的去世而心神不宁，她深入挖掘，以克服哀悼的痛苦并找出原因。
When she interviews Yush’s friends, they reveal that he had deep-seated insecurities about his height which led him to seek out limb-lengthening surgery.
当她采访尤什的朋友时，他们透露，尤什对自己的身高有着根深蒂固的不安全感，这导致他寻求肢体延长手术。
Yush believed that being taller would make him richer and more successful.
尤什相信长得更高会让他更富有、更成功。
Instead, he died of a pulmonary embolism, one of the side risks of the limb-lengthening surgery.
相反，他死于肺栓塞，这是肢体延长手术的副作用之一。
Gupta’s work is personal, revelatory, shocking and provides insight into an area where we need more work: the ways in which conventional ideas of masculinity and power harm men.
古普塔的作品是个人化的、具有启发性的、令人震惊的，并为我们需要更多工作的领域提供了见解：传统的男子气概和权力观念如何伤害男性。
## The Death and Life of Frankie Madrid (Valeria Fernández, California Sunday)
## 弗兰基·马德里的死与生（瓦莱里娅·费尔南德斯，加州星期日）
I am drawn to investigations that harness the power of one story to illuminate the situation of a whole group — in this case, the lives of young, undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Fernández writes poetically about the death and life of Frankie Madrid, an undocumented teen who arrived in the U.S. with his mom when he was either 4 or 6 months old.
我对利用一个故事的力量来阐明整个群体的处境的调查很感兴趣——在这个例子中，是美国年轻无证移民的生活。费尔南德斯诗意地描写了弗兰基·马德里的死与生，弗兰基·马德里是一名无证青少年，他在 4 或 6 个月大时与母亲一起来到美国。
Fernandéz begins the story with Frankie’s death — he committed suicide after being deported to Mexico — and then works her way back in time, investigating the cause of his suicide, his relationship with his mother and the difficulties of daily life while being undocumented.
费尔南德斯从弗兰基的死开始故事——他被驱逐到墨西哥后自杀——然后回到过去，调查他自杀的原因、他与母亲的关系以及无证情况下日常生活的困难。
Via Frankie’s story, we begin to understand the pressures that undocumented kids face and to question the increasingly inhumane U.S. immigration policies and practices that played a role in his suicide.
通过弗兰基的故事，我们开始了解无证儿童面临的压力，并质疑美国日益不人道的移民政策和做法，这些政策和做法在他的自杀中发挥了作用。
Mansi Choksi Writer based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Mumbai, India.
Mansi Choksi 作家，居住在阿拉伯联合酋长国迪拜和印度孟买。
## The Jungle Prince of Delhi (Ellen Barry, The New York Times)
## 德里的丛林王子（艾伦·巴里，纽约时报）
Ellen Barry’s investigation about a family of ousted aristocrats living in wilderness in the middle of New Delhi is the result of a four-year-long obsession.
艾伦·巴里（Ellen Barry）对新德里中部荒野中的一个被驱逐贵族家庭进行了长达四年的痴迷调查。
It follows the life and death of Prince Cyrus, a man who claims to be heir apparent to the fallen house of Oudh, a Muslim kingdom annexed by British colonizers in the nineteenth century.
故事讲述了赛勒斯王子的生与死，赛勒斯王子自称是奥德家族的法定继承人，奥德是一个穆斯林王国，在 19 世纪被英国殖民者吞并。
Prince Cyrus, whose mother is said to have killed herself by swallowing crushed diamonds to protest their indignation, lives inside a hunting lodge granted as consolation by the Indian government.
据说赛勒斯王子的母亲为了抗议愤慨而吞下碎钻石自杀，赛勒斯王子住在印度政府为安慰而提供的狩猎小屋内。
“This family, displaying its own ruin, was a physical representation of all that India had suffered,” Barry writes.
巴里写道：“这个家庭展示了自己的废墟，是印度所遭受的一切苦难的真实写照。”
Barry develops a strange friendship with Prince Cyrus (“He was solicitous and a little corny, with pop culture references that seemed to date from the 1960s”) and as she becomes more curious about why a man with wealth and privilege would continue to live in isolation inside a jungle, she begins collecting records, photographs, documents and looking for clues of the family’s past.
巴里与赛勒斯王子建立了一种奇怪的友谊（“他很热心，有点老土，流行文化的参考似乎可以追溯到 20 世纪 60 年代”），当她越来越好奇为什么一个拥有财富和特权的男人会继续在丛林中与世隔绝时，她开始收集记录、照片、文件并寻找有关这个家庭过去的线索。
Finally, she lands in Yorkshire.
最后，她降落在约克郡。
This is a story about displacement, hustle, nostalgia, fraud, colonial trauma and ultimately, the lies we tell ourselves.
这是一个关于流离失所、喧嚣、怀旧、欺诈、殖民创伤以及最终我们告诉自己的谎言的故事。
Nicholas JacksonAward-winning editor and writer — former EIC of Pacific Standard.
尼古拉斯·杰克逊获奖编辑和作家——太平洋标准报前 EIC。
## How This Con Man’s Wild Testimony Sent Dozens to Jail, and 4 to Death Row (Pamela Colloff, The New York Times Magazine & ProPublica)
## 这个骗子的疯狂证词如何将数十人送进监狱，四人送进死牢（Pamela Colloff，《纽约时报杂志》和 ProPublica）
There may be some recency bias at play here (Pam Colloff’s latest year-in-the-works investigation in her dual role for the Times Magazine and ProPublica was published earlier this month) or even some favoritism (when I was first asked to contribute to Longreads’ year-end list, way back in 2012, I included Pam’s two-part series for Texas Monthly, “The Innocent Man”), but regardless of byline or timestamp, this piece is one of the best of the year—in any category.
这里可能存在一些新近偏见（Pam Colloff 对她在《时代杂志》和 ProPublica 的双重角色的最新年度调查于本月早些时候发表），甚至有些偏袒（早在 2012 年，当我第一次被要求为 Longreads 的年终清单做出贡献时，我收录了 Pam 在《德克萨斯月刊》上的两部分系列文章“无辜的人”），但无论署名或时间戳如何，这篇文章都是年度最佳——任何类别。
It’s an investigation that required combing through thousands of pages of court documents, a compelling feature story that spans several decades and states, and a profile of Paul Skalnik, a one-time police officer turned jailhouse informant.
这项调查需要梳理数千页的法庭文件、跨越数十年和各州的引人入胜的专题故事，以及曾经是警察、后来成为监狱线人的保罗·斯卡尔尼克的简介。
Skalnik is a con artist, marrying up and often to access resources he otherwise wouldn’t have.
斯卡尔尼克是一个骗子高手，他经常通过结婚来获得他本来不会拥有的资源。
Depending on the situation, he passes himself off as a Homeland Security agent, a terminally ill cancer patient, an ex-fighter pilot, a top executive at Southwest Airlines, or someone else entirely, taking different names as needed to the evade the law.
根据具体情况，他会冒充国土安全部特工、绝症癌症患者、前战斗机飞行员、西南航空公司高管或完全其他人，并根据需要使用不同的名字来逃避法律。
(He’s described by one source, a former assistant district attorney in Texas, as “grandiose, delusional.”) But it’s when Skalnik is taken into custody that his games turn even more dangerous.
（德克萨斯州前助理地方检察官一位消息人士称他“浮夸、妄想”。）但当斯卡尔尼克被拘留后，他的游戏变得更加危险。
They become deadly.
它们变得致命。
Diving deep into arrest records and police reports, Colloff finds evidence that Skalnik “was one of the most prolific, and most effective, jailhouse informants in American history.” His testimony over the years, used to secure an early release on each of his own convictions, is always questionable but rarely questioned.
科洛夫深入研究逮捕记录和警方报告，发现证据表明斯卡尔尼克“是美国历史上最多产、最有效的监狱线人之一”。多年来，他的证词一直受到质疑，但很少受到质疑，这些证词用于确保他自己的每项定罪早日获释。
And it was used by prosecutors to put dozens of people behind bars, and four on death row.
检察官利用它将数十人关进监狱，其中四人被关进死囚牢房。
One, James Dailey, who was convicted of murder more than 30 years ago, awaits execution in Florida State Prison.
其中一位名叫詹姆斯·戴利 (James Dailey)，30 多年前被判犯有谋杀罪，目前在佛罗里达州监狱等待处决。
When Colloff, whose reporting suggests Dailey was asleep somewhere else when the crime was committed, visits Dailey, he tells her that “I never talked to Paul Skalnik in my life.”
科洛夫的报告表明犯罪发生时戴利正在其他地方睡觉，当科洛夫拜访戴利时，他告诉她“我一生中从未与保罗·斯卡尼克说过话。”
And Because I Couldn’t Pick Just One…
因为我不能只选一个......
## Everything You Think You Know About Toxic Shock Syndrome Is Probably Wrong (Nona Willis Aronowitz, Lifehacker)
## 您认为您所了解的有关中毒性休克综合症的一切可能都是错误的（Nona Willis Aronowitz，Lifehacker）
## The Most Gullible Man in Cambridge (Kera Bolonik, New York magazine)
## 剑桥最容易上当受骗的人（Kera Bolonik，纽约杂志）
## What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane?
## 马来西亚失踪飞机到底发生了什么？
(William Langewiesche, The Atlantic)
（威廉·朗格维什，《大西洋月刊》）
## The Strange Life and Mysterious Death of a Virtuoso Coder (Brendan I.
## 一位编码大师的奇异一生和神秘死亡 (Brendan I.
Koerner, Wired)
科纳，连线）
Erika HayasakiReporter and associate professor of literary journalism at the University of California, Irvine.
Erika Hayasaki 加州大学欧文分校记者兼文学新闻学副教授。
## The Quiet Rooms: Children Locked Away in Illinois Schools (Jennifer Smith Richards, Jodi S.
## 安静的房间：伊利诺伊州学校里被锁起来的孩子（Jennifer Smith Richards、Jodi S.
Cohen and Lakeidra Chavis, The Boston Globe & ProPublica)
科恩和莱凯德拉·查维斯 (《波士顿环球报》和 ProPublica)
“The spaces have gentle names: The reflection room.
“这些空间有一个温柔的名字：反思室。
The cool-down room.
降温室。
The calming room.
平静的房间。
The quiet room,” the story begins.
安静的房间，”故事开始了。
But this tale takes a dark turn as the reporters lay out the findings of their investigation into child punishment practices in Illinois schools: children screaming to be let out, banging their heads, scratching at walls.
但当记者们公布了他们对伊利诺伊州学校惩罚儿童行为的调查结果时，这个故事发生了黑暗的转折：孩子们尖叫着要放走，撞着头，抓着墙壁。
The reporters analyzed more than 20,000 incidents during a year-long period, and the observations recorded by school staff provided chilling accounts of what it was like for children to be secluded in a kind of campus solitary confinement.
记者们分析了一年内发生的 20,000 多起事件，学校工作人员记录的观察结果提供了孩子们被隔离在校园单独监禁中的令人毛骨悚然的经历。
“Dancing in feces.
“在粪便中跳舞。
Doing the twist,” according to one note from a staff member.
做扭转，”一位工作人员的一张纸条说。
In another note, a student begged: “Please, please, please open the door.
在另一张纸条中，一名学生恳求道：“请，请，请打开门。
Please, I’ll be good.
拜托，我会很好的。
Open the door and I’ll be quiet.”
把门打开，我就安静。”
I read “The Quiet Rooms” with a particular sadness because I attended elementary and middle school in Illinois and I also remember a “quiet room” on my campus.
我带着特别悲伤的心情读了《安静的房间》，因为我在伊利诺伊州上小学和中学，我也记得我的校园里有一个“安静的房间”。
Ours was called the “ISS Room,” or In-School-Suspension.
我们的房间被称为“ISS Room”，即校内停课室。
But I remember the room clearly: a creepy, dimly lit place where kids, who were disproportionately African American, were locked inside for hours, usually sitting and facing a wall as a lone staff member scolded them if they moved or spoke.
但我清楚地记得那个房间：一个令人毛骨悚然、灯光昏暗的地方，孩子们（其中大部分是非裔美国人）被锁在里面几个小时，通常面朝墙壁坐着，如果他们移动或说话，一名孤独的工作人员就会责骂他们。
As this Propublica Illinois story states, these rooms have been around for decades.
正如伊利诺伊州 Propublica 的报道所述，这些房间已经存在了几十年。
But this painstakingly reported investigation, which published in November, immediately made people pay attention.
但这份煞费苦心的调查报告在11月发表后，立即引起了人们的关注。
“Many readers have told us they struggled to hold back tears as they read the words of these children.
“许多读者告诉我们，当他们读到这些孩子们的文字时，他们努力忍住泪水。
Some told us they had to put the story down for a while, regain composure and return to it later,” Propublica Illinois wrote.
有些人告诉我们，他们必须暂时放下这个故事，恢复镇定，稍后再回来，”伊利诺伊州普罗大众写道。
Within a day of publishing the piece, the Illinois State Board of Education announced it was taking emergency action to end the punishment of children alone behind locked doors at schools.
这篇文章发表后一天内，伊利诺伊州教育委员会宣布正在采取紧急行动，结束学校对儿童单独关门的惩罚。
## Dark Crystals: The Brutal Reality Behind a Booming Wellness Craze (Tess McClure, The Guardian)
## 黑水晶：蓬勃发展的健康热潮背后的残酷现实（泰丝·麦克卢尔，《卫报》）
Tess McClure’s investigation shows us the people and children who put their safety and lives on the line to mine the rose quartz, amethyst or tourmaline gem stones and crystals that have become popular among celebrities and people seeking alternative methods to heal themselves.
苔丝·麦克卢尔 (Tess McClure) 的调查向我们展示了那些冒着生命安全和生命危险开采蔷薇石英、紫水晶或电气石宝石和晶体的人们和儿童，这些宝石和晶体在名人和寻求替代治疗方法的人们中很受欢迎。
McClure travels to Madagascar to reveal what happens before these shiny stones end up piled inside of glass bowl displays in a Sedona or Los Angeles crystal shop, marked by descriptors like “helps release insecurities,” or “heals trauma.” Her investigation is impressive, not only because of the vast reach of her solo reporting around the world, but also how she uses that ambitious journalism to bring the people she meets alive on the page for us.
麦克卢尔前往马达加斯加，揭示了这些闪亮的宝石最终被堆放在塞多纳或洛杉矶水晶店的玻璃碗展示中之前发生的情况，并标有“帮助释放不安全感”或“治愈创伤”等描述。她的调查令人印象深刻，不仅因为她在世界各地的单独报道的广泛影响力，还因为她如何利用雄心勃勃的新闻报道，让她遇到的人活生生地出现在我们的页面上。
Her writing makes readers care about the individuals she interviews and the international human rights and environmental issues that she illuminates with her reporting.
她的写作让读者关心她采访的个人以及她在报道中阐明的国际人权和环境问题。
She does this by surprising us with vivid scenes, dialogue and quotes.
她通过生动的场景、对话和引言来让我们感到惊讶。
Like this one from a family member of a worker who died:
就像一位去世工人的家人所写的这样：
What killed him was digging for stones, about 15 metres deep.
导致他死亡的是挖掘大约15米深的石头。
He went into a tunnel and it collapsed from above and he was buried – someone called for help: ‘Help!
他走进一条隧道，隧道从上面塌陷，他被埋了——有人呼救：“救命！”
Zafimahatratra is buried down there!’ That’s when I went with his children to dig him up.
扎菲玛哈特拉就埋在那里！’就在那时，我和他的孩子们一起去把他挖了出来。
There is literary and social power in the contrasting images McClure weaves together, lines like:
麦克卢尔编织在一起的对比图像具有文学和社会力量，比如：
Rose quartz cracked underfoot: jagged, gleaming, a little translucent, shining like the flesh of a fresh-filleted tuna.
玫瑰石英在脚下裂开：参差不齐，闪闪发光，有点半透明，像新鲜金枪鱼片的肉一样闪闪发光。
Later, he lifted a worn trouser leg to show the scars he had acquired from a lifetime of mining: on the right leg, where falling stones crushed his shin.
后来，他抬起一条破旧的裤腿，展示了他一生采矿所留下的伤疤：在右腿上，落石压碎了他的小腿。
Kevin NguyenFeatures editor at The Verge.
Kevin Nguyen 是 The Verge 的特约编辑。
## Ponzi Schemes, Private Yachts, and a Missing $250 Million in Crypto: The Strange Tale of Quadriga (Nathaniel Rich, Vanity Fair)
## 庞氏骗局、私人游艇和失踪的 2.5 亿美元加密货币：Quadriga 的奇怪故事（Nathaniel Rich，《名利场》）
A great bitcoin story is never really about bitcoin itself, but all the things cryptocurrency tends to inadvertently be about: value, volatility, belief.
一个伟大的比特币故事从来都不是真正关于比特币本身的，而是加密货币往往不经意间涉及的所有事物：价值、波动性、信仰。
It’s probably why everyone involved tends to be rich, emotional, paranoid.
这可能就是为什么每个参与其中的人往往都是富有的、情绪化的、偏执的。
In “The Strange Tale of Quadriga,” Nathaniel Rich investigates the sudden and mysterious passing of Gerald Cotten, the CEO of Canada’s biggest blockchain exchange, whatever that is.
在《Quadriga 的奇异故事》中，纳撒尼尔·里奇 (Nathaniel Rich) 调查了加拿大最大的区块链交易所首席执行官杰拉尔德·科顿 (Gerald Cotten) 的突然神秘去世。
The details of his death are circumspect, especially given that hundreds of millions in crypto vanished along with him, leading people (largely on reddit) to wonder if this disappearance was faked.
他死亡的细节是谨慎的，特别是考虑到数亿加密货币与他一起消失，导致人们（主要是在 Reddit 上）怀疑这次失踪是否是伪造的。
Every bitcoin mystery ends up being an anticlimax, and it works in this case because Rich leans into it.
每个比特币之谜最终都会变得虎头蛇尾，而在这种情况下它之所以有效，是因为里奇倾向于它。
As readers, we become just as conspiratorial as the subjects in the piece.
作为读者，我们变得和文章中的主题一样有阴谋。
It reminded me a bit of the part in Knives Out when Daniel Craig talks about the mystery with a hole at the center of it — a donut.
这让我想起了《利刃出鞘》中丹尼尔·克雷格谈论中心有一个洞的谜团——一个甜甜圈的部分。
I’m not sure if Rich wants his story described as a donut, but I ate it up anyway.
我不确定里奇是否希望他的故事被描述为甜甜圈，但我还是把它吃了。
## Is It Possible to Stop a Mass Shooting Before It Happens?
## 是否有可能在大规模枪击事件发生之前阻止它？
(Andrea Stanley, Cosmopolitan)
（安德里亚·斯坦利，大都会）
Who profiles the profilers?
谁对分析器进行分析？
Cosmo’s Andrea Stanley, apparently.
显然是 Cosmo 的安德里亚·斯坦利 (Andrea Stanley)。
The FBI has long used profilers to identify serial killers and the like.
联邦调查局长期以来一直使用分析器来识别连环杀手等。
But the subject of Stanley’s profile, who goes by K, specializes in the violent men spawned from online hate groups.
但斯坦利的个人资料中的主题是 K，专门研究网络仇恨团体产生的暴力分子。
Because anonymity is so important for K’s work, there are many details withheld from the piece — things that could make her identifiable, like where she lives or how she does her job.
由于匿名对于 K 的作品非常重要，因此作品中隐去了许多细节——一些可以让她被识别出来的细节，比如她住在哪里或她如何工作。
And yet, Stanley’s reporting still feels complete and satisfying.
然而，斯坦利的报告仍然让人感觉完整且令人满意。
K is tracking roughly a thousand men, cataloged in a spreadsheet, and she trawls the most horrendous corners of the internet to keep tabs on them.
K 正在追踪大约 1000 名男子，并在电子表格中进行分类，她在互联网上最可怕的角落中搜寻以密切关注他们。
If you want a sense of how good K is at this work, after the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, she identified 305 attendees from photographs — some of whom were charged, others who are now being monitored.
如果你想了解 K 在这项工作上的出色表现，在夏洛茨维尔白人至上主义集会之后，她从照片中识别出 305 名参加者——其中一些人受到指控，另一些人现在受到监控。
I wish the story wrestled at least a little bit with some of the tricky moral questions that come with this kind of work — it is surveillance, after all — but Stanley’s writing and reporting here is interested in drawing a broader (and scarier) portrait not just of her subject, but of the potentially violent men she’s identifying.
我希望这个故事至少能够解决这类工作所带来的一些棘手的道德问题——毕竟这是监视——但斯坦利在这里的写作和报道感兴趣的是描绘一个更广泛（也更可怕）的肖像，不仅是她的主题，还有她所识别的潜在暴力男性。
There’s a throughline between incels, Red Pill-ers, and white supremacists, and maybe the best way to see it is through the person who observes them for a living.
非自愿独身者、红色药丸者和白人至上主义者之间存在着一条直线，也许最好的方式是通过以观察他们为生的人来了解它。
Maurice ChammahStaff writer at The Marshall Project.
莫里斯·查玛（Maurice Chammah）马歇尔计划特约撰稿人。
## A sick baby.
## 一个生病的婴儿。
A worried mom.
一位忧心忡忡的妈妈。
Diagnosis: Abuse?
诊断：虐待？
(Mike Hixenbaugh and Keri Blakinger, NBC News)
（迈克·希森博和克里·布莱金格，NBC 新闻）
Have you heard of Keri Blakinger yet?
你听说过克里·布莱金格吗？
The formerly incarcerated journalist has been reporting for the Houston Chronicle for several years, and her stories have done everything from expose the identity of an execution-drug-producing pharmacy to help Texas prisoners get dentures.
这位前被监禁的记者多年来一直为《休斯敦纪事报》报道，她的故事无所不包，从揭露一家生产死刑药品的药房的身份，到帮助德克萨斯州囚犯安装假牙。
She’s also written insightful columns about her own time in prison.
她还撰写了有关自己在监狱中的经历的富有洞察力的专栏。
But the story I keep thinking about from this year was part of a series she published this year along with NBC News reporter Mike Hixenbaugh.
但我今年一直在思考的故事是她今年与 NBC 新闻记者迈克·希森博 (Mike Hixenbaugh) 一起出版的系列文章的一部分。
It’s about doctors who are trained to uncover child abuse, but sometimes make decisions that turn out to be wrong — with devastating consequences, including children removed from their parents and even parents wrongly put in prison.
故事讲述的是接受过揭露儿童虐待事件培训的医生，但有时会做出错误的决定，带来毁灭性的后果，包括孩子被从父母身边带走，甚至父母被错误地关进监狱。
In this moment of extreme partisanship and political outrage, many investigative stories about wrongdoing read like legal indictments, but Blakinger and Hixenbaugh know how to embrace nuance.
在这个极端党派之争和政治愤怒的时刻，许多有关不法行为的调查报道读起来就像法律起诉书，但布莱金格和希森鲍知道如何拥抱细微差别。
In my favorite story from their multi-part series, they open cinematically, amid the flood waters of Hurricane Harvey, where we meet Ajshay James and her daughter Harper.
在他们的多部分系列中我最喜欢的故事中，他们以电影般的方式在哈维飓风的洪水中开始，在那里我们遇到了阿杰·詹姆斯和她的女儿哈珀。
Once they arrive at a hospital, James loses her daughter to the state, because a doctor claims that this is an example of the rare disorder known as “Munchausen Syndrome by proxy.” Simply put, the doctor thinks James has been fabricating her daughter’s illness, and is committing “medical child abuse.” The reporters dealt with thousands of pages of medical records and situated this case in a complicated landscape of state agencies and courts, but they also crafted a narrative with cliffhangers and expressed empathy for everyone involved, including those who must make difficult, life-and-death decisions about the fates of children.
他们一到达医院，詹姆斯就失去了她的女儿，因为医生声称这是一种被称为“代理孟乔森综合症”的罕见疾病的一个例子。简而言之，医生认为詹姆斯一直在捏造女儿的病情，并且正在实施“医疗虐待儿童”。记者们查阅了数千页的医疗记录，并将此案置于国家机构和法院的复杂背景中，但他们也精心制作了一个扣人心弦的叙述，并对所有相关人员表示同情，包括那些必须对儿童命运做出艰难、生死攸关的决定的人。
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