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DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) – Former Germany defender Christoph Metzelder was given a 10-month suspended jail sentence on Thursday after being discovered responsible of sharing footage of kid pornography with acquaintances by way of a message service, a court docket in Duesseldorf stated.
The court docket discovered Metzelder responsible of the offence after an investigation that began in 2019, and the previous participant admitting earlier on Thursday to sharing recordsdata on WhatsApp.
“I despatched these footage despite the fact that I do know what unspeakable struggling in the direction of youngsters in every of those recordsdata there’s,” he instructed the court docket.
“I depart a wound that can by no means heal. I’ve to reside with that for the remainder of my life,” he stated. “I settle for the sentence.”
Metzelder, a Bundesliga champion with Borussia Dortmund, additionally performed for Schalke 04 and Actual Madrid.
He was a World Cup runner-up in 2002 and received 47 caps for his nation. He additionally performed within the 2006 World Cup.
Metzelder was president of his boyhood membership TuS Haltern till stepping down in 2019 as a result of case. He labored on many social tasks with youngsters by way of his now defunct basis.
(Reporting by Karolos Grohmann, modifying by Ed Osmond)
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