Oklahoma Senator pleads guilty to child sex trafficking
Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shorty presented himself as a moral and conservative guy when it came to issues such as abortion and religion.
In 2011 he co-sponsored a bill to prohibit abortions after 20 weeks. In 2012, a bill requiring abortion providers to inform the patient that the fetal heartbeat is audible. That same year, a bill to declare life begins at conception. in 2013 co-sponsored a bill to protect religious views at schools.
However, Ralph Shorty wasn’t so moral or conservative when it came to offering to pay a minor for sex earlier this year.
In March, Police caught Senator Shorty in a hotel room with a minor, condoms and lotion. They were there for a sexual encounter.
Although he had a history of voting in favor of bills targeting members of the LGBT community, he was caught with a minor boy. He had a long-running involvement in a YMCA’s youth government program and served as a chaperone on several out-of-state trips.He also volunteered as a bus driver for children who attended Oklahoma City’s Southwest Baptist Church.
He wasn’t on any sex offender list, which speaks to the idea that the list provides any form of protection to minors.
Last week Shorty plead guilty to sex trafficking, in exchange for dropping a few child pornography charges against him.
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So would anyone on here be terribly offended if I did my little schadenfreude jig? LOL
Personally, I send out an at-a-boy to all of the politicians who politicized sex offenses, passed all of the restrictive laws & court rules that made it so easy to convict people of Sex Crimes. Seems it is really working out for them. 👍
Maybe if the “good” senator was made to suffer a little indignity his compatriots (of whom there may be more like- minded sex offenders) would be less likely to push for onerous laws that may be applied to them.
What was he doing from March to last week? Let us not ever forget any of these things that happen to our law makers. Several hardcopies are being added to my file for reference and info to the general public. Hypocrisy at the highest level here.
He was likely in the judicial process. Arrest, Indictment, Discovery, etc.
I also bet he made a deal and won’t be put on the registry which we all know that is where he should be for life.
Bobby, while I agree with the sentiment of frustration that, because of his position of power, he may not have to deal with the same punishment that many of us do, I have to disagree with your statement as a whole.
I do not think that he should be on the registry for life. I do not think that anyone should have to register for life. Part of the reason this organization (FAC) exists in the first place is because we believe that the registry is harmful for a variety of reasons, and is being used in ways that decrease public safety.
While those on the registry are rightly frustrated, wishing the same on others solves nothing and, in reality, only works to set us back. I’m not advocating the ‘turning of the cheek,’ just thinking of Nietzsche and something he said about the ‘abyss staring back.’
These are some of the types of characters that we have voting in favor of strict sex offender laws. I guess they figure they will never get caught. It’s time for some common sense to be exercised by our politicians. Focus on the real problems instead of trying to fool the electorate.
The phrase “common sense” and politicians should never be used in the same sentence together as they are mutually exclusive.
Unfortunately this will have absolutely no effect…never has never will.
My best friend is a somewhat philosophical cat and he said of my situation that most of those to yell the loudest likely have something to hide. Sure, some may have been victims, but he thinks that a fair number have their own shady little past and their very public pronouncements/crusades are kind of a conscious or maybe subconscious attempt to say “it’s those guys over there, not me”.
Capt, I always like to point out the positive aspects of any situation, no matter how dire it may appear. At least he was practicing safe sex……. 😀
Over the past several years I’ve started to wonder if there is such a thing.