TRUMP CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR AND 'FAMILY VALUES' REPUBLICAN PLEADS GUILTY TO CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING, FA
Source: Newsweek
BY CARLOS BALLESTEROS ON 11/19/17 AT 5:25 PM
Ralph Shortey, former Oklahoma state senator and a county campaign coordinator for President Donald Trumps campaign last year, will plead guilty to a child sex trafficking offense for soliciting sex from a 17-year-old boy in March.
In exchange for his guilty plea, government prosecutors have agreed to drop three counts of child pornography against him.
Shortey is scheduled to plead guilty on November 30, two weeks before his trial was set to commence on December 5. Sex trafficking of a minor carries a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison, but Shortey faces the possibility of being sent to life in prison for the offense at a sentencing hearing in early 2018.
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On March 9, Shortey surrendered to police on charges of engaging in child prostitution, transporting a minor for prostitution and engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church. He was released on a $100,000 bond a couple hours after being booked.
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/republican-sex-trafficking-child-trump-coordinator-716348?piano_t=1
bagelsforbreakfast
(1,427 posts)louis-t
(23,199 posts)cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)Initech
(99,912 posts)LakeArenal
(28,713 posts)Against Groping and Molestation
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)If one engages a prostitute, and the church might be close enough, do they send out guys with a chain like football?
Judi Lynn
(160,211 posts)SergeStorms
(18,882 posts)you can't swing a dead cat in Oklahoma and not hit a church. Basically, they've outlawed prostitution for a second time, so for each time you solicit a prostitute, you're up on two charges right off the bat!
The GOP (grabby old perverts) sure does a lot of gay stuff for guys who are publicly so dead set against it. Maybe they thought if they put up such a stink against it, it would give them adequate cover to do their thing.
Initech
(99,912 posts)Maybe then we can be finally free?
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Because prisoners have families of their own.
trof
(54,255 posts)I almost feel sorry for him.
Fullduplexxx
(7,818 posts)hibbing
(10,076 posts)Okay, I get it, you like guns and have a bunch of them.
Peace
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)FakeNoose
(32,335 posts)I guess this will mean another troll attack on another upstanding Democratic leader. Deflection is the GOP's only defense!
Lucky Luciano
(11,242 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,362 posts)That pal with him in the top picture looks older than 17.
A proud acquaintance?
Would make a good campaign photo.
bucolic_frolic
(42,663 posts)and then there is creepy way off the charts
This doofus is a moon rocket of creepiness
pangaia
(24,324 posts)IronLionZion
(45,256 posts)Was this how the pizzagate conspiracy started but they went in the wrong direction?
hexola
(4,835 posts)Anyone who has this kind of photo taken is seriously nuts.
PaulRevere08
(449 posts)Hopefully he'll spend time in a place where he'll get to experience true helplessness.