Actor Timothy Busfield INDICTED On Several Counts Of S*xual Contact With A Child

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Hollywood’s filfth is starting to be cleaned up.

Actor Timothy Busfield, who starred in the hit show The West Wing, has been indicted by a New Mexico Grand Jury.

In the indictment, the now disgraced actor was charged with four counts of sexual contact with a child.

CNN had more to share on the indictment against Busfield:

A New Mexico grand jury has indicted Timothy Busfield on four counts of criminal sexual contact with a child.

Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman announced the indictment Friday in a social media post.

Authorities had issued an arrest warrant for Busfield over allegations of misconduct from when he was working as a director on the set of the TV series “The Cleaning Lady.”

Busfield has denied the allegations. He turned himself in to authorities and later was released from jail.

Busfield is best known for appearances in “The West Wing,” “Field of Dreams” and “Thirtysomething.”

Larry Stein, an attorney for Busfield, did not comment on the sexual contact charge in the indictment but said the grand jury declined to endorse grooming charges sought by prosecutors.

He said in a statement that a detention hearing already “exposed fatal weaknesses in the state’s evidence — gaps that no amount of charging decisions can cure.”

Here’s Busfield in court with a smile:

Busfield’s wife, actress Melissa Gilbert, who starred in the hit TV series Little House on the Prairie, where she played Laura Ingalls, is defending her husband.

ABC News reported Gilbert claims her husband has the best “moral compass” out of anyone she knows:

Actress Melissa Gilbert is speaking out in an emotional plea to a judge after her husband, actor Timothy Busfield, was arrested on charges of alleged criminal sexual contact of a minor and child abuse.

Busfield — best known for his role as Danny Concannon on “The West Wing” — turned himself in to authorities last week and is being held in custody in New Mexico with no bond.

Gilbert pleaded with the judge, “Please, please take care of my sweet husband. As he is my protector, I am his, but I cannot protect him now and I think that, more than anything else, is what is truly breaking my heart. I am relying on you to protect him for me.”

She said, “Tim has the strongest moral compass of any human I have ever known. He has dedicated his spiritual self to always being of service to others.”



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