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Rep. Rick Roeber, R-Lee's Summit / File Photo The Missouri House of Representatives rejected Rep. Rick Roeber's resignation last week so that the ethics committee could complete its report on the Lee's Summit Republican. The House voted to expel Roeber Wednesday. In a nearly unanimous vote Wednesday, the Missouri House expelled Lee's Summit Rep. Rick Roeber. Months after child abuse allegations first surfaced against state Rep. Rick Roeber — then a candidate for the Lee’s Summit district — the Missouri House of Representatives voted Wednesday to expel the Republican. While no lawmakers...

Missourinet You are here: Home For the first time since the Civil War, Missouri House expels one of its own State Rep. Rick Roeber (R-Lee’s Summit) resigned Tuesday (January 2021 photo courtesy of Tim Bommel at House Communications) State Representative Rick Roeber, R-Lee’s Summit, has been expelled. The Republican-controlled Missouri House of Representatives has voted unanimously today in favor of kicking Roeber out of office for allegedly abusing his four adult children when they were younger. The last time a member of the Missouri House was expelled was during the Civil War. In 1865, t...

Missouri lawmaker physically, sexually abused two of his kids, House ethics panel says Austin Huguelet, Springfield News-Leader © Courtesy Rick Roeber The Missouri House ethics committee on Monday formally accused a Kansas City-area lawmaker of abusing his kids and recommended his expulsion. In a 12-page report released Monday, the half-Republican, half-Democratic panel said it had confirmed allegations that Rep. Rick Roeber, R-Lee’s Summit, sexually abused two of his young children in 1990 and physically and mentally abused all four. The committee further said that their...

 A Missouri state lawmaker is expected to be expelled from office following a state investigation that concluded he engaged in physical, mental and sexual abuse against his now-adult children. The ethics committee recommended that Roeber be removed from office after reviewing what it described as "clear and convincing testimony and other evidence" of the lawmaker’s guilt.  The report found that Roeber’s actions may be subject to criminal charges, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The report included testimony from three of Roeber’s four children as well as his ex-wife, who accus...

Rep. Rick Roeber, R-Lee's Summit / File Photo Rep. Rick Roeber is accused of sexually abusing two of his children in 1990, when they were 9 and 5, and physically abusing two others. Rep. Rick Roeber would be only the second lawmaker ever expelled from the House The Missouri House Ethics Committee voted unanimously on Monday to recommend Rep. Rick Roeber be expelled from the Legislature. The committee, made up of five Republicans and five Democrats, said evidence obtained over the course of its four-month investigation confirmed Roeber had sexually abused two of his children in 1990, when t...