NORMAN — A conservative state senator who once wanted to be a missionary was accused Thursday in a child prostitution case of offering to pay a 17-year-old boy for sex. 
 
 Sen. Ralph Shortey, R-Oklahoma City, was charged with three felony counts, one week after police found him with the teenager in a Moore hotel room. 
 
 Gov. Mary Fallin, Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb, Senate leaders and many others called Thursday for him to resign. 
 
 The accusations "do not reflect the character and decorum that we expect of an elected official," Fallin said. "It is not acceptable." 
 
 The evidence against Shortey includes a graphic online conversation where the two discuss having sex and smoking marijuana, police reported in a court affidavit. The conversation was found on the teenager's Kindle tablet. 
 
 Shortey, using the online name "Jamie Tilley," at one point during the discussion about sex called the teenager "baby boy," according to the affidavit. 
 
 Police reported finding an open box of condoms in Shortey's backpack and a bottle of lotion in the teenager's backpack after confronting them at the Super 8 in Moore. 
 
 Shortey, 35, turned himself in at the Cleveland County Detention Center around noon Thursday and was released about two hours later after posting bail. He had no comment. 
 
 The state Senate on Wednesday voted to punish Shortey for "disorderly behavior." The unanimous vote stripped him of most of his privileges at the Capitol, including his office and parking space. 
 
 Shortey has been a senator since 2010 and has championed law-and-order issues. He is married to his high school sweetheart and has spoken repeatedly of her importance in his life. They have three children. 
 
 Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution, engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church and transporting a minor for prostitution. Bail was set at $100,000. 
 
 Prosecutors specifically allege in the case that Shortey offered the teenager "money in exchange for sexual contact." They allege that he knowingly took the teenager to the hotel room "for the purpose of engaging in prostitution." They allege the hotel is within 1,000 feet of the First Christian Church in Moore. 
 
 The maximum punishment, if convicted, is 25 years in prison. 
 
 The teenager was not charged because prosecutors consider him to be a victim. He is listed on the charge, by his initials, as a witness against Shortey. 
 
 Police found Shortey and the teenager in the hotel room early March 9, according to a police report on the investigation. Police described the room as reeking of raw marijuana. 
 
 Police reported Shortey at first refused to open the door and initially told officers no one other than him was inside the room. Shortey had rented the room for one night, a front-desk manager said. 
 
 Police went to Room 120 about 1 a.m. March 9 after being called by the teenager's father, according to the police report. The father had been contacted by the teenager's girlfriend. She had seen the teenager picked up by a male in a white Jeep Cherokee and followed them. 
 
 Police were told the teenager has a history of soliciting himself on Craigslist for sexual conduct and also had a history of drug abuse. The girlfriend was watching his house because he had said he was "going to get paid tonight" and she feared he was still involved in illegal narcotics, according to the police report. 
 
 Police reported in the court affidavit that the teenager, in the online conversation, told Shortey, "I need money for spring break." Police reported Shortey replied, "I don't really have any legitimate things I need help with right now. Would you be interested in 'sexual' stuff?" Police reported the juvenile then wrote, "Yes." 
 
 Police reported the teenager later wrote, "Hey keep updated cause I want you bad daddy." Police reported Shortey, using a graphic word, replied he was going to have sex with the teenager "like a good little boy if you keep calling me daddy." 
 
 The teenager told police he had known Shortey for about a year and the two originally met through a Craigslist personal encounter ad, according to the court affidavit. 
 
 The teenager said the two were smoking marijuana in the hotel room when police knocked on the door, police reported. He also told police both he and Shortey brought marijuana to the room. 
 
 Police reported later seizing a green plastic container with the label, "Colorado Retail Marijuana." Police reported the container smelled of marijuana and contained a small amount of marijuana residue. 
 
 Police also reported Shortey had asked the teenager during the online conversation, "You gonna wanna smoke?" The teenager wrote back, "That's up to you." Police reported Shortey then wrote, "Sounds good, can you bring a pipe or something, and a lighter?" 
 
 Prosecutors said they did not file a marijuana charge against Shortey primarily because of evidence issues. Police did not find the container until officers returned to the hotel room. 
 
 Shortey had studied in college to do mission work in Uganda but decided to go into the oil and gas industry after having his first child. "I actually planned my life around being a missionary," he said in a TV interview. 
 
 He later went into politics — both as an elected senator and as a paid political consultant. 
 
 Last year, he helped former state Rep. Mike Christian, who lost a bid to become Oklahoma County sheriff. Christian is running again for sheriff this year in a special election but has a different consultant. 
 
 Christian was among those calling for Shortey to immediately resign. "Sen. Shortey has betrayed our trust and violated our values," Christian said. 
 
 Contributing: Staff writers Brianna Bailey, Randy Ellis, Jane Glenn Cannon, Dale Denwalt and Kyle Schwab 
 
 Related to this story Show more 25 ||||| A Republican state senator from Oklahoma City introduced a bill Tuesday that would ban the use of aborted human fetuses in food, despite conceding that he's unaware of any company using such a practice. 
 
 Freshman Sen. Ralph Shortey said his own Internet research led him to believe such a ban is necessary and prompted him to offer the bill aimed at raising "public awareness" and giving an "ultimatum to companies" that might consider such a policy. 
 
 Shortey said he discovered suggestions online that some companies use embryonic stem cells to develop artificial flavors, but added that he is unaware of any Oklahoma companies doing such research. 
 
 In an e-mail to The Associated Press, U.S. Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman Pat El-Hinnawy said: "FDA is not aware of this particular concern." 
 
 The executive director of the anti-abortion group Oklahomans for Life, which has successfully pushed some of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the country through the state's GOP-controlled Legislature, also said he had never heard of human fetuses being used in food research. 
 
 "I don't know anything about that," said Tony Lauinger. 
 
 Shortey's bill would prohibit the manufacture or sale of any food in which aborted fetuses were used to develop any of the ingredients. 
 
 Meanwhile, the bill has caused a stir among Oklahoma lawmakers, many decrying the proposed legislation. 
 
 Self-described "pro-life" Sen. Brian Crain, the chairman of the Senate Human Services Committee to which Shortey's bill likely would be assigned, said Tuesday other issues are more deserving of the Legislature's attention. 
 
 "We've got too many challenges facing Oklahomans today. We don't need to go looking for possible challenges that may come about sometime in the future," said Crain, R-Tulsa. "If it can be demonstrated that this is a challenge facing our food supply, then I think we need to act quickly, but there's been no demonstration that this is going on. 
 
 "I'd hate to think we're going to spend our time coming up with possibilities of things we need to stop." 
 
 First elected in 2010 to a heavily Hispanic district on the city's south side, Shortey has grabbed headlines with other bills he's introduced that have not become law. He sponsored a measure last year to crack down on illegal immigrants by authorizing law enforcement to seize their homes and vehicles, and to deny Oklahoma citizenship to babies born to illegal immigrants. He also offered an amendment to a bill that would have allowed legislators to carry firearms anywhere in the state, including the floor of the House and Senate. 
 
 This year, Shortey has introduced a bill seeking a public vote on amending the Oklahoma Constitution to abolish the Court of Criminal Appeals. 
 
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– On Wednesday, Oklahoma state Sen. Ralph Shortey was suspended for "disorderly behavior." On Thursday, more details emerged as Shortey was charged with three felonies involving child prostitution, the Oklahoman reports. The charges came out of a police bust on March 9, when cops say they found Shortey at a Super 8 motel in Moore with a 17-year-old boy in a room stinking of pot. An investigation was kicked off after the boy's girlfriend called his dad, who in turn contacted the authorities, per the Tulsa World. Police say they came across a text on one of the teen's devices that indicated the boy was looking to make money for spring break, to which they believe Shortey, using a screen name, responded, "Would you be interested in 'sexual' stuff?" Cops say they also found an open pack of condoms with Shortey's belongings; the teen told them he'd known the senator for a year or so and that they'd hooked up through a Craigslist personal ad, per the court affidavit. A judge has set bail for the 35-year-old Shortey, who's married with children, at $100,000, though he hasn't yet turned himself in. (Cleveland County prosecutors say he'll be arrested if he doesn't.) Shortey has been charged with engaging in child prostitution, engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church, and transporting a minor for prostitution. Meanwhile, Oklahoma Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb is asking for the GOP senator's resignation, noting that "Oklahomans deserve to be represented by those above reproach." (Some think child prostitutes are the ones who should be arrested.)