Waterfall Education Center

"A Wakefield husband and wife are facing numerous charges in connection with an illegal day care service that subjected at least 13 children - one of them just days old - to horrific sexual abuse that was recorded on video. On Thursday, Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone announced the indictments of Wakefield residents John Burnbine, 49, and his wife, Marian Burbine, 46. The two were proprietors of the Waterfall Education Center, which reportedly offered home-based services to clients ranging from day care to group care and tutoring and babysitting. The business reportedly had some employees as well, although Leone indicated that no complicity has been found at this point among them. "In my 14 years in Middlesex County, I have never seen a case this bad," Leone told area media at a Thursday press conference in Woburn. The DA reported that child victims of Burbine live in the following communities: Stoneham, Medford, Newton, Reading, Melrose, Woburn, and Waltham. Combined, the two defendants were indicted on more than 100 charges. John Burbine is facing 40 counts of aggravated forcible rape of a child, subsequent offense, 17 counts of indecent assault and battery on a child, 12 counts of posing a child in a state of nudity, 11 counts of posing a child in sexual conduct, 13 counts of child pornography, 2 counts of dissemination of material harmful to a minor, and one count of operating an unlicensed day care program. For her part, Marian Burbine faces 6 counts of reckless endangerment of a child, and two counts of operating an unlicensed day care business. According to the DA, this case covers abuse allegations occurring from August, 2010 to August 2012. Child victims, both boys and girls, allegedly ranged in age from 8 days old to 3.5 years old. "Due to the age of the these victims, we are literally speaking for victims with no voices in this case," said Leone. A complaint against Mr. Burbine received back in July was also deemed not prosecutable at the tim"