Clippertron

Do all married Christian MAGAts have secret lives? Meet MAGAt, fundamentalist Christian, and convicted pedophile Ralph Shortey, a far-right Republican who served as an Oklahoma State Senator and chaired Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign in Oklahoma. On March 9, 2017, law enforcement officers conducted a welfare check at a motel in Moore, Oklahoma. Inside the room, officers noted the odor of marijuana and discovered Shortey with a 17-year-old male. Body camera footage recorded Shortey stating to officers that he was present at the motel to act as a mentor to the teenager. A subsequent multi-agency law enforcement investigation determined that Shortey utilized a pseudonym on the messaging application Kik to communicate with and solicit the minor for commercial sex in exchange for cash. Shortey resigned from his seat in the Oklahoma State Senate on March 22, 2017. On November 30, 2017, Shortey entered a plea of guilty to a federal charge of child sex trafficking. On September 17, 2018, he was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, and was required to register as a sex offender for life. On January 31, 2019, the court ordered him to pay 125,850 dollars in restitution to the victim to cover medical and psychological treatment costs. Ralph Shortey was married at the time of his arrest. He was married to his high school sweetheart, Jennifer, with whom he had four daughters. Following his arrest and subsequent guilty plea, his wife filed for divorce. The divorce was finalized in 2018 after 16 years of marriage. A judge terminated the marriage and allowed his ex-wife to legally change both her last name and the last names of their four children to distance themselves from him.