{"id":148622,"date":"2025-11-19T17:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/148622\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:09:11","slug":"andreas-schjelderup-norway-player-handed-suspended-sentence-for-sharing-illegal-sexual-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/148622\/","title":{"rendered":"Andreas Schjelderup: Norway player handed suspended sentence for sharing illegal sexual video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Norway international Andreas Schjelderup has been given a two-week suspended prison sentence after a Danish court found him guilty of sharing sexual material of two boys under the age of 18.<\/p>\n

Benfica winger Schjelderup, 21, told the court he received a 27-second video on Snapchat and forwarded it to a group chat of four friends before deleting it once he realised its content.<\/p>\n

Schjelderup, who was 19 and playing for Danish Superliga side Nordsjaelland at the time of the incident, pleaded guilty after co-operating with a police investigation.<\/p>\n

Schjelderup will only have to serve time in jail if found guilty of another crime during the next 12 months.<\/p>\n

The prosecution had asked the court to sentence Schjelderup to at least 20 days in prison.<\/p>\n

His lawyer Anders Nemeth told the court that the defence would take time to deliberate before deciding whether to appeal.<\/p>\n

Rui Costa, president of Portuguese side Benfica, has previously been reported as saying the club will support Schjelderup.<\/p>\n

In a statement posted on Instagram on 8 November, Schjelderup apologised<\/a> and said he wanted to “be open to all of you about a stupid mistake I did”.<\/p>\n

He said he was “ready to face the consequences” and urged people not to “watch or spread videos with harmful or offensive content”.<\/p>\n

“The offence I will be convicted for does not reflect on who I am as a person and what I stand for,” he added.<\/p>\n

Schjelderup, who has eight caps for Norway, was an unused substitute on Sunday as they beat Italy 4-1 in Milan to qualify for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norway international Andreas Schjelderup has been given a two-week suspended prison sentence after a Danish court found him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-148622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}