Thread: Senator found with boy in motel charged with prostitution

Oklahoma state senator found with boy in motel charged with prostitution



By Jon Herskovitz

ReutersMarch 16, 2017
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(Reuters) - An Oklahoma Republican state senator who campaigned as a champion of family values was charged with felony prostitution on Thursday after authorities found him in a motel room with a teenage boy, county officials said.

Ralph Shortey, 35, was charged with three felony counts, including engaging in child prostitution, the office of the Cleveland County District Attorney said.

Shortey, who has served since 2010, has not spoken to media about the incident.

According to an arrest affidavit, police found Shortey and a 17-year-old male, who was not named, in a motel room in Moore, south of Oklahoma City, on March 9.

"Officers present observed a strong odor of marijuana coming from the room and inside the room at the time of their contact with the defendant," the affidavit said.

According to court records, Shortey was booked at a local jail on Thursday afternoon. His bond has been set at $100,000.

A guns rights advocate who has taken a hard-line stance against abortion, Shortey was sanctioned by the Republican-dominated state Senate on Wednesday on a 43-0 vote for "disorderly behavior."

The act imposed penalties such as stripping him of his office, removing him from committee positions and canceling his reserved parking space.

In a statement issued Thursday morning, Oklahoma Lieutenant Governor Todd Lamb, a Republican, called on Shortey to resign.

"Oklahomans deserve to be represented by those above reproach," he said. "Ralph Shortey has clearly failed to achieve this minimum standard and rightfully lost his Senate privileges."

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Too many evil, disgusting, people walking the face of the Earth.

A guns rights advocate who has taken a hard-line stance against abortion,

Hmmmm......frightening how some can be elected and possess powers to affect people's lives when they are all screwed up in their private lives. He is probably married too.

All these men against abortion...how many have gone out and got vasectomies and stopped impregnating women with THEIR unwanted babies. The men do not want them either...why are they off the hook?

How many men have gone and adopted them all?

Come up with a solution then. Free vasectomies and tubal ligations and end the generations of welfare and food stamps that taxpayers have to pay for your night of fun. Disgusting.

Takes two to tango. No sperm...no baby.

Video shows Oklahoma Senator caught with underage boy in hotel

By Kathleen Joyce

December 5, 2017 | 7:00pm

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A police department in Oklahoma released body camera footage Monday of former State Senator Ralph Shortey caught in a hotel room with an underage boy, days after he pleaded guilty to child prostitution and pornography charges.

The Moore Police Department released the footage of the encounter that occurred early on March 9 at a Super 8 Motel in Moore, Okla., FOX59 reported.

The footage showed police knocking on the door of a room occupied by Shortey — a Republican — and the underage male. Police said they went to the room after receiving a welfare check call placed by the teen boy’s father.

“So, what are they saying?” one of the officers asked the other.

“Well, drug-related, maybe,” an officer replied. “Maybe was coming here to buy some weed. Either here for narcotics, or prostitution for narcotics.”

“Like the kid’s prostituting himself out?” the other officer asked.

The officers said they smelled marijuana and later discovered a small amount of it in the room along with condoms and lotion found in a backpack that belonged to Shortey, FOX25 News reported.

“Hey, it’s Moore Police Department, man. We just need to check on your welfare, make sure you’re OK. We’re not going away,” the officers were heard saying.

Later the officers were heard talking to someone inside and telling the person to hurry up and get dressed.

The video cuts when the teenager appeared and then picks back up to the officers speaking to Shortey, who was hiding behind the door.
“Come out,” an officer ordered Shortey. “Now, you’re getting me worried, show me your hands.”

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Shortey appeared and was wearing a shirt with a reference to the Bible verse from Ephesians 5:22, which called for women to “submit to their husbands,” FOX25 News reported.

The officers told Shortey he was with a 17-year-old male but the former state senator replied, “Can you show me that he’s only 17?”

“I can’t,” an officer replied. “But I can convince you that he is. I can put you in handcuffs and throw you in the back of the car.”

The officers asked what Shortey was doing in the room with the teenager and he said they were having a conversation.

The former state senator was eventually arrested. Police accused Shortey of hiring the 17-year-old for sex.

A police report indicated a search of the teen’s tablet computer uncovered a series of sexually explicit exchanges in which Shortey referred to him as “baby boy” and offered him cash in exchange for “sexual stuff.”

The FBI became involved in the case following Shortey’s arrest and searched his Oklahoma City home.

The married father of four resigned in March after he was arrested on state charges of engaging in child prostitution and transporting a minor for prostitution.

Last Thursday, Shortey pleaded guilty to the charges in exchange for federal prosecutors dropping three child pornography charges against him. He faces between 10 years and life in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 for child sex trafficking. The judge did not set a sentencing date.

https://nypost.com/2017/12/05/video-...-boy-in-hotel/

Wow. That is nasty stuff. Someone needs to take that damn T-shirt he was wearing and wrap it around his neck. What a low-life. Married with 4 kids. How do his wife and kids ever make sense of something like this?