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Some very disturbing information this weekend out of Hollywood:
Timothy Busfield — a veteran actor and director who’s married to Melissa Gilbert — is going through two counts of felony sexual contact of a minor and one depend of kid abuse.
In an arrest warrant issued by the Albuquerque Police Division on January 9, authorities declare that Busfield engaged in illegal sexual conduct with two 11-year-old siblings… whose identities have been withheld from the general public.
One of many minors says the incidents started when he was 7 years previous.
This particular person alleged the primary incident concerned Busfield touching him three or 4 occasions… and that the 68-year previous additionally touched him 5 – 6 occasions on one other event when he was 8.
Whereas talking with Officer Marvin Kirk Brown, who issued the warrant, the victims’ dad and mom stated the minors have been actors who met Busfield on the set of the FOX collection The Cleansing Woman, the place Busfield served as a director.
In an announcement to Individuals Journal, a Warner Bros. Tv consultant stated the next:
“The well being and security of our forged and crew is at all times our prime precedence, particularly the protection of minors on our productions. We take all allegations of misconduct very severely and have techniques in place to promptly and totally examine, and when wanted, take acceptable motion.”
Nobody related to Busfield has commented at this level on the accusations.
The investigation bought underway in November 2024 when the investigator responded to a name from a physician on the College of New Mexico Hospital. The kid’s dad and mom had gone there on the suggestion of a legislation agency, the criticism states.
Busfield is greatest recognized for appearances on The West Wing, Area of Goals” and Thirtysomething, the latter of which gained him an Emmy for excellent supporting actor in a drama collection in 1991.
Officer Brown says the aforementioned siblings declare Busfield “would tickle them on the abdomen and legs” and that they referred to him as “Uncle Tim.”
On October 3, 2025, the children’ mom filed a police report and informed Baby Protecting Providers that “her kids each disclosed that there was sexual abuse by Timothy from round November 2022 to Spring 2024.”
A therapist who labored with one of many supposed victims is on report as saying the kid started “having nightmares concerning the director touching him and waking up scared,” and claimed Busfield “had touched and rubbed his penis 3 or 4 occasions and seemed to be ashamed,” per the warrant.
Busfield additionally confronted prior sexual assault allegations relationship again to 1994, in keeping with the warrant.
