Real Madrid's Raúl Asencio was acquitted on Thursday by a Spanish court of charges related to allegedly recording sexual images of a woman and a minor and distributing them without their consent. Asencio's former Real Madrid youth division teammates Andrés García, Ferrán Ruiz and Juan Rodríguez, also on trial, all agreed to a one-year suspended jail sentence for distributing child pornography.

The case centres on the filming of a sexual encounter in the private area of a beach club in the Canary Islands in June 2023, as well as the distribution of the video, without consent. Asencio, 23, was not accused of having been involved in the incident or the filming of it but of distributing the video without consent. The two young women who appear in the footage -- one of whom was 16 at the time -- confirmed during Thursday's trial that they had forgiven the four players.

Spanish prosecutors had requested two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for Asencio and jail sentences of four years and seven months for García, Ruiz and Rodríguez. The judge handed down a verdict by consent, with the three footballers sentenced to one year's imprisonment, suspended, plus restraining orders and bans on working with minors. Asencio was acquitted and is free to go.

This ruling comes one day after Asencio was convicted of a traffic offence for driving under the influence of alcohol. He was fined €14,400 and had his driver's licence suspended for eight months. Real Madrid opened a disciplinary proceeding against Asencio after his DUI conviction, coach José Mourinho said on Thursday.