Oklahoma State Senator slapped with child prostitution charges – PB/TK Oklahoma lawmaker facing child prostitution charge – AP March 16 2017
Oklahoma prosecutors have filed child prostitution charges against a Republican state senator after police found him in a hotel room a 17-year-old boy.
Cleveland County prosecutors charged 35-year-old Ralph Shortey on Thursday with engaging in child prostitution, transporting a minor for prostitution and engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church. An arrest warrant has been issued for him
Moore police say that acting on a tip from the teen’s father, they went to the Super 8 Hotel last week and smelled marijuana coming from a room. They found Shortey and the teen alone inside.
The age of consent in Oklahoma is 16.
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