{"id":2270092,"date":"2026-02-06T18:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2270092"},"modified":"2026-02-06T18:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:08:17","slug":"timothy-busfield-indicted-for-child-sex-abuse-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/timothy-busfield-indicted-for-child-sex-abuse-new-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Timothy Busfield indicted for child sex abuse New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A New Mexico grand jury has indicted Timothy Busfield, the Emmy-winning actor known for \u201cThe West Wing\u201d and \u201cThritysomething,\u201d for child sex abuse. <\/p>\n

On Friday, prosecutors charged Busfield with four counts of criminal sexual contact of a child, the Bernalillo County District Attorney\u2019s Office confirmed to The Times. A legal representative for Busfield did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs with all criminal proceedings, Mr. Busfield is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law,\u201d district attorney Sam Bregman said in a social media announcement<\/a>. \u201cThis case will proceed through the judicial process and is expected to move forward to trial.\u201d<\/p>\n

The D.A.\u2019s office added that its special victims unit will prosecute Busfield\u2019s case.<\/p>\n

Last month, a New Mexico judge issued a warrant for Busfield\u2019s arrest, citing two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and a single count of child abuse. An affidavit filed by New Mexico officials accuses Busfield, 68, of inappropriately touching two child actors, who are brothers, during his time as an actor, director and producer on the Fox crime drama \u201cThe Cleaning Lady.\u201d<\/p>\n

Busfield and his legal team have denied the allegations. The 68-year-old was released from a New Mexico jail<\/a> on his own recognizance Jan. 20.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A New Mexico grand jury has indicted Timothy Busfield, the Emmy-winning actor known for \u201cThe West Wing\u201d and \u201cThritysomething,\u201d for child sex abuse. On Friday, prosecutors charged Busfield with four counts of criminal sexual contact of a child, the Bernalillo County District Attorney\u2019s Office confirmed to The Times. A legal representative for Busfield did not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2270093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2270092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Timothy-Busfield-indicted-for-child-sex-abuse-New-Mexico.com2Fc92F4e2F182a578746c48f6d0f206e2c.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270094,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270092\/revisions\/2270094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2270093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}