Young Hunter Learns Fast 
Andrew Rosencrans From Trucksville, Kingston Township, Was Successful In His 
Pursuit On The Second Day In December While Many Grown Men Who Are Veteran 
Hunters Were Not.

2 Men Sentenced On Simple Assault

By MIKE RUBINKAM; Times Leader Staff Writer
 Saturday, February 01, 1997 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Page: 3A 





HARVEYS LAKE -- A district justice and borough officials knew Bonnie
Goble's ramshackle house lacked a sewer hookup. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 The neighbors long suspected the woman was neglecting her daughter Amanda,
now a 16-year-old high school student. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The people with whom Amanda occasionally stayed listened to the girl
describe a home that lacked running water, or working bathroom facilities, or
food, or a proper heating source. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 So why didn't anybody do anything to help her? &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "Because people today would rather turn their heads," said Mayor Richard
Boice. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 As a result, Amanda Goble took it upon herself last Saturday to call
police, who subsequently searched the wooden structure at 33B Lakeview
Terrace. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 What they found supported the girl's accusations of neglect, said officer
Damian Hoover. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Bonnie Goble -- who worked at Offset Paperback in Dallas, owned a
relatively new TV and drove a 1991 Saturn -- was arrested Thursday on charges
of endangering the welfare of children and recklessly endangering another
person. She remains in the Luzerne County Correctional Facility in lieu of
$5,000 bail. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Her house was condemned by acting zoning officer Carole Samson, who said
the structure could be torn down unless Goble, 51, can somehow begin repairing
it within 30 days. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Yellow police tape blocks the entrance to the porch, which is littered with
dirt and leaves, an old couch with its cover torn off, several empty plastic
soda bottles, dirty old clothes and trinkets of all sorts. A brief glance
inside the house revealed a kitchen and living room so cluttered that those
rooms are nearly impassable. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 These conditions existed for years, said a Lehman Township woman with whom
Amanda stayed 2 1/2 years ago. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "I had tried to talk to the mother once but she was very, very
uncommunicative and hostile," said the woman, who requested anonymity. She
said she didn't notify the county's Children and Youth Services because she
worried the agency would do nothing, thus putting the girl in greater danger. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "I had thought about it but we were given the idea it would be taken out on
her," said the woman. She called Amanda a "beautiful, beautiful child." &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 The girl somehow kept herself clean and wore clean clothes to school --
even though the house had lacked running water for five years, said Angelo
Concert, a maintenance man for Lakeview Terrace Water Association. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Neighbors, Officials Knew Of Girl's Plight Officials, Neighbors Knew Something About Conditions At Home In Harveys Lake, But Did Little To Help