
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 19, 1995                   TAG: 9504190029
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: ROCKFORD, ILL.                                LENGTH: Medium

WHEN INTERSTATE SUSPECT WAS 6, HIS FATHER RAPED 10-YEAR-OLD

The father of a North Carolina trucker suspected of killing at least three women along interstate highways made his son wait in his car while he raped a 10-year-old girl more than 20 years ago, a newspaper reported.

Sean P. Goble was 6 years old when his father, Kenneth Goble, a former Winnebago County, Ill., deputy sheriff, was charged with raping a 10-year-old Rockford girl. Goble was sitting in his father's car outside the victim's house during the attack, The Register Star of Rockford reported.

Kenneth Goble was convicted and served about four years of a four-to-20-year sentence. He claimed he was framed to discredit his testimony before a special grand jury investigating alleged misconduct in the sheriff's department. That claim never was substantiated.

After his release, Kenneth Goble moved to New Mexico, where he was charged with raping a 6-year-old child. He pleaded guilty in 1986. A family member said Kenneth Goble was released from a New Mexico prison last year.

Sean Goble, 28, lives in Asheboro, N.C., but most of his family still lives in the Rockford area.

A native of Rockford, Sean Goble attended Auburn High School, where he dropped out during his senior year in 1984. He belonged to the ROTC, as did most of the high school friends, the newspaper reported.

``He was the kind of kid you remember,'' said David D. Kalber, Goble's counselor at Auburn. ``He had a lot of problems with his family. He did an awful lot of acting out. He kind of fell apart in his senior year and didn't graduate.''

Kalber said he recalled that Goble pronounced his first name, Sean, as ``seen'' and that he got average grades.

``You don't think when you see a person, `Well, he's going to be a mass murderer,''' Kalber said. ``So, yes, it's a shock.''

Sean Goble lived with his mother and sister in Rockford throughout his high school years, until he joined the U.S. Army.

``I never expected him to pull anything like this,'' said his cousin Rick Goble, 25, of Machesney Park.

by CNB