Spanish
footballers, Antonio Luna and Sergi Enrich have been handed a two-year suspended
prison sentence in Spain for sharing a sex tape of a threesome without consent.
Luna and his former Eibar team-mate Sergi Enrich engaged in consensual sexual activity with a young woman in April 2016.
Court
documents revealed that the pair filmed the episode without her consent and
later shared it with other people via messages on WhatsApp. The explicit video
was then reportedly leaked online six months later.
The documents
added that the publication of the video led the young woman, who asked the
players to stop filming during the sexual act, to experience psychological
problems.
The woman
involved said she was forced to take six months off work and sought
professional help and took medication to cope with the stress.
According to
EuroSport, the court has ruled that the footballers will serve two years on
probation and pay £88,500 in legal fees between them after they found
guilty. The pair will also have to pay
an additional £8,500 to the victim.
After the
video was released online, Enrich issued an apology on behalf of himself and
Luna.
It read: 'In
light of the circulation on social media of a sexually-explicit video in which
we, the undersigned, appear, we want to state that the video shows a recording
of a private act which took place between fully consenting adults, within the
scope of the freedoms we all enjoy.
'We deeply
regret that an indiscretion for which we are not responsible has led to these
images being published without our knowledge or, far less, our consent.
'We likewise
regret the potential damage [not only] to our image but in particular to that
of our club, whose colours we represent, and that it could have offended our
supporters and the city of Eibar in general.
"We are
aware that professional footballers should set an example in every walk of
life, especially to children; this being the reason we apologise if this
incident has caused harm to anyone.
"Equally,
we want to apologise for the damage the circulation of this video could cause
to the third person involved in the video.
"We wish
to stress that, as Eibar players, an exemplary club that represents a set of
fans and a city equally exemplary, we stand by the values that have been shown
to us since we arrived in Eibar. We hope this incident does not in any way harm
the image of the club, nor that of our team-mates.
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