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Oklahoma City’s ABC affiliate reports:
Four federal child porn-related charges have been filed against former state Sen. Ralph Shortey, according to court documents. The charges include two counts of transportation of child pornography, production of child pornography and child sex trafficking, the court documents said.
The two transportation of child pornography charges stem from allegations that he used a smartphone to send a video involving a “prepubescent girl” and videos involving young boys from an America Online email address in October 2013, the documents said.
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Shortey allegedly advertised on Craigslist that he wanted to watch an underage male perform a sex act with a woman and record it. The producing child pornography count claims that Shortey persuaded a minor via the social media app Kik to send him an image of the young man’s penis.
Shortey faces mandatory sentences for the counts. The child pornography counts carry a minimum of five years, production of child pornography has a minimum of 15 years and the sex trafficking count carries a minimum of 10 years.
Shortey was charged in March in Cleveland County court with Engaging in Child Prostitution, Engaging in Prostitution within 1000 feet of a church and Transporting a Minor for Prostitution/Lewdness. The charges came after the then state senator was found in a metro hotel room with an underage boy. He resigned from his position shortly after being charged.
Court documents first made public during Shortey’s initial arraignment in March appeared to reveal that he agreed to ejaculate in the “boy pussy” of the teen prostitute he is alleged to have hired over Craigslist.
RELATED: During his tenure in the state Senate, Shortey was infamous for filing bizarre bills, among them a proposed ban on human fetuses in food products and an ordinance authorizing homeowners to shoot down drones.
Shortey also authored numerous anti-immigrant bills, including one that would deny US citizenship to babies born of undocumented parents. Additionally, he sponsored many items on the threat of electronic pulse attacks, a longtime topic in the fever swamps at InfoWars.
The head of Equality Oklahoma notes that Shortey once promised him that he would leave the Senate chamber during a vote on an anti-transgender bill, but Shortey appeared at his desk and voted for it anyway. Shortey was the state Trump campaign chairman during the GOP primary.
