Benfica’s Schjelderup Gets 14-Day Sentence Suspended in Copenhagen Child-Sex Video Case

Overview

• Judge Mathias Eike convicted Andreas Schjelderup and imposed a suspended 14-day prison term with one year of probation.
• The court declined to order community service and treated the ruling as a warning given his admission of guilt and remorse.
• The video was classified as “category 2,” indicating visual sexual material involving children, and was described as a 27-second clip he did not seek out.
• Schjelderup testified that he received the clip via Snapchat in 2023, forwarded it to a four-person group, watched only the opening seconds, and deleted it promptly.
• He called the act a “stupid mistake,” said he did not know the ages of those depicted, and urged others not to share such content.