Oklahoma senate found in a motel with an underage boy.............the case of Ralph Shortey.

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Introduction:
In March 2017, police arrested the twice elected in a district covering south Oklahoma City and parts of two suburbs, Ralph Shortey. He was charged with three felony counts—soliciting a minor for prostitution, prostitution within 1,000 feet (300 m) of a church, and transporting someone for prostitution.
who’s Ralph Shortey and WHAT HAPPENED? :
Ralph Shortey was born in Casper, Wyoming. He spent a portion of his childhood on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Grass Mountain, South Dakota, before moving to Oklahoma. His attorney said Shortey grew up in poverty and was abused by stepfathers and his mother's boyfriends. Ralph graduated from Westmoore High School in 2000, and studied at Heartland Baptist Bible College (an unaccredited Baptist Bible college that trains religious ministers in Oklahoma City).
On March, 2017, Police acted on a tip from a teen's father when they went to a suburban Oklahoma City motel room and found ralph with a 17 year-old boy, police also noted that the room smelled of marijuana.
A police report indicated a search of the teen's tablet uncovered a series of sexually explicit exchanges in which Shortey referred to the teen as "baby boy" and offered him cash in exchange for "sexual stuff."
The FBI also found that Shortey had previously used fake names to send and receive child pornography and to go on Craigslist to seek casual encounters with males, the "younger the better." As he puts it.
Shortey turned himself in the same day and was released on a $100,000 bond. And On March 16, 2017, Shortey was charged by the Cleveland County District Attorney with three felony counts—soliciting a minor for prostitution, prostitution within 1,000 feet (300 m) of a church, and transporting someone for prostitution even though The age of consent in Oklahoma is 16, under state law, engaging in prostitution with anyone under 18 is illegal.
legal proceeding:
On September 5, 2017, a federal grand jury indicted Shortey on four federal sex trafficking and child pornography charges, involving both the March incident and videos that Shortey was accused of distributing from his cell phone in 2012 and 2013 and In June 2018, prosecutors revealed in a sentencing that Shortey had sex twice with the victim in the year before they were found together at the hotel. Shortey pleaded not guilty to these charges. After the federal charges were announced, the Cleveland County district attorney dropped the state charges. A federal jury trial had been scheduled for December 2017. However, On November 19, 2017, Shortey reached an agreement to plead guilty to one count of child sex trafficking; the prosecutor agreed to have the child pornography counts removed. Shortey was jailed immediately after pleading guilty on November 30.
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