New Accuser Reported in Burbine Case

Accused serial child sex abuser John Burbine is now reportedly facing additional charges in Essex County.

Accused serial child sex abuser John Burbine is now reportedly facing additional charges in Essex County. According to a Wednesday Salem News report, a new accuser, a boy from Saugus, has stepped forward with allegations about actions that would have occurred from May 1990 to January 1994. The accuser reportedly came forward after seeing the initial media coverage in the case.  In Middlesex County, Burbine is already facing nearly 100 counts stemming from the alleged sexual abuse of children from the Melrose area. Burbine and his wife Marian were proprietors of the Waterfall Education Center in Wakefield, which offered tutoring and daycare services despite not being fully licensed to do so. Mrs. Burbine is facing six counts of reckless …

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Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Bailey Found Safe and Sound in Melrose

After three months, a missing dog named Bailey was located in Melrose.

[Editor's note: The following is a Letter to the Editor from Laurie McCannon from Northeast Animal Shelter.] On Sept. 17th we emailed or spoke to many of you regarding a lost dog named Bailey.  Bailey was in a foster home for just a couple of days when he escaped from the yard in Lynnfield. Many volunteers searched for weeks for Bailey in the Route 1, Saugus/Lynnfield area. Many stores in that area were generously keeping their eyes out for him, ready to contact Northeast Animal Shelter if he was spotted. Many let us hang flyers in their windows to help spread the word. Many of you posted on your websites or ran coverage of the search for Bailey. With the help of Granite State Dog Recovery, many volunteers who continued to search for him, …

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