
Tim Busfield was indicted on child sex abuse. Now four women say he abused them.
USA TODAY
Timothy Busfield, the Emmy award winning actor, was indicted on four counts of child sex abuse. Now four women have told police he abused them.
At least four women have told police that the Emmy-award winning actor and director Timothy Busfield groped their breasts and genitals, and forced himself on them, dating from 1993 to 2000. One was a 16-year-old community theater intern when she said Busfield pushed his hand into her pants and his tongue into her mouth.
The women came forward after Busfield was arrested on suspicion of child sex abuse on January 13. The women shared their stories with an Albuquerque police detective in January according to six video interviews with the women that USA TODAY obtained from the Second Judicial District Court in New Mexico under a public records request.
A grand jury indicted Busfield on four counts of criminal sexual contact of a child on February 6. A trial date has been set for May 2027 in New Mexico.
Busfield, 68, is best known for his roles in “The West Wing” and “Thirtysomething.” He has denied the charges.
Larry Stein, a civil attorney representing Busfield, told USA TODAY that these allegations aren't relevant to the boys' case. "I will not waste my time nor the public's commenting on 30-year-old unproven allegations with adult women," he said. “I don’t want to focus everyone's attention on on the irrelevant facts of these women. And I don’t want to say anything negative about them. They are unproven allegations. They aren’t relevant to this case."













