Norway’s footballer Schjelderup convicted of sharing sexual video of minors

Schjelderup pleaded blameworthy astatine a tribunal successful Denmark, wherever helium played for a section shot club, and was fixed a suspended situation sentence.

A Danish tribunal has recovered Norwegian nationalist squad shot subordinate Andreas Schjelderup blameworthy of sharing intersexual worldly of 2 under-18 boys and handed him a suspended situation sentence.

Schjelderup, 21, who past twelvemonth played for Danish broadside FC Nordsjaelland, told the Copenhagen tribunal helium had received the 27-second video connected the Snapchat societal media app and had forwarded it to a radical chat of 4 friends.

The winger, who present plays for Portuguese nine Benfica, connected Wednesday pleaded blameworthy and told the tribunal helium had realised from the archetypal fewer seconds that the radical successful the video were nether 18.

“As I forwarded it to my friends, I rapidly realised that it was amerciable and rapidly deleted the video,” Schjelderup said.

In a connection connected Instagram connected Saturday, Schjelderup apologised and said helium wanted to “be unfastened to each of you astir a anserine mistake I did”.

Judge Mathias Eike gave Schjelderup a two-week suspended situation sentence, meaning helium volition lone person to service clip successful jailhouse if recovered blameworthy of different transgression during the adjacent 12 months.

The authoritative successful the lawsuit had asked the tribunal to condemnation Schjelderup to astatine slightest 20 days successful prison.

His lawyer, Anders Nemeth, told the tribunal that the defence would instrumentality clip to deliberate earlier deciding whether to appeal.

Norway connected Sunday qualified for the 2026 World Cup aft a 4-1 triumph distant to Italy successful their last qualifying match. Schjelderup was an unused substitute for the lucifer successful Milan.