Former Oklahoma Senator Pleads Guilty to Child Sex Trafficking – Faces Life in Prison NOVEMBER 23, 2017
Over the weekend, former Oklahoma Senator Ralph Shortey agreed to plead guilty to a single child sex trafficking charge.
The plea bargain came in order to have three other charges dropped against him. The three charges include two counts of transportation of child pornography and one count of production of child pornography.
News Oklahoma reported:
The federal grand jury accused Shortey in the first child pornography count of using his smartphone in October 2013 to email a video of a man engaging in sexually explicit conduct with a prepubescent girl. He is accused in the second child pornographic count of using his smartphone that same month to email sexually explicit videos of young boys. He is accused in the third child pornography count of persuading the boy he later took to the Moore hotel to send him an inappropriate picture. He is accused in the child sex trafficking count of soliciting that boy in March to engage in a commercial sex act. The boy is identified in the indictment only as “John Doe.” The crime will get him at least ten years in prison, but he could get up to life behind bars.
Shortey was known as a “family values” conservative and state chair of President Donald Trump’s campaign during the primary elections.
They did a piece on him this morning on the Today show. I'm sure he wasn't thinking if he'd ever see his $20 again. Simply an amazing act of kindness on his part.
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