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'West Wing' Star Timothy Busfield Facing Child Sex Abuse Charges ... Warrant Out For His Arrest
https://www.tmz.com/2026/01/09/timothy-busfield-child-sex-abuse-charges-new-mexico/#continued ^ | 1/9/2026 | tmz

Posted on 01/09/2026 5:10:28 PM PST by RummyChick

Actor and director Timothy Busfield, famous for his work on "The West Wing" and "Thirtysomething," is being accused of pedophilia ... prosecutors in New Mexico allege he sexually abused underage boys who were child actors on a TV production set.

According to a criminal complaint filed Friday in New Mexico, obtained by TMZ, Busfield is charged with child abuse and two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor under the age of 13.

The charges stem from allegations that he sexually abused two boys on the set of "The Cleaning Lady."

(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...


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KEYWORDS: busfield; childabuse; hollywood
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he was married to melissa gilbert

there was some kind of weird Michael jackson dinner at Spago where he joined their party. Dont see any other reference to Busfield making comments about Jackson

1 posted on 01/09/2026 5:10:28 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

right under that story is one that really belongs in florida

Pennsylvania Ghoul
Cops Say His Alleged Crimes Were Very Sloppy ...
Didn’t Cover Tracks In Stealing 100 Corpses

https://www.tmz.com/2026/01/09/grave-robber-100-corpses-sloppy/#continued


2 posted on 01/09/2026 5:11:51 PM PST by RummyChick (If I did not provide a link in my post none will be forthcoming )
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To: RummyChick

Wasn’t he in Field of Screams?


3 posted on 01/09/2026 5:13:28 PM PST by Round Earther
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To: RummyChick

“The West Wing” was every Leftist’s wet dream about how they see themselves.

To be fair, Timothy Busfield was likely just trying to burnish his credentials by behaving in real life like his “West Wing” comrades would have behaved in real life.


4 posted on 01/09/2026 5:13:52 PM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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To: RummyChick

Ugh 2 boys. The depravity of these people is boundless.


5 posted on 01/09/2026 5:13:53 PM PST by iamgalt
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To: RummyChick

Its ironic that Melissa Gilbert is always trashing Trump meanwhile she is married to a pedo who touches 7 yr old boys


6 posted on 01/09/2026 5:15:33 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: RummyChick

Maybe he will make this simple and swallow a bottle of something bad.


7 posted on 01/09/2026 5:16:36 PM PST by DAC21
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To: RummyChick

Never watched West Wing. Don’t know who he is.


8 posted on 01/09/2026 5:18:51 PM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

“Its ironic that Melissa Gilbert is always trashing Trump meanwhile she is married to a pedo who touches 7 yr old boys”

Half Pint was never more than a bucket toothed half wit. Michael Landon would have disowned her.


9 posted on 01/09/2026 5:21:15 PM PST by DAC21
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To: nuconvert

Then thanks for chiming in.


10 posted on 01/09/2026 5:21:23 PM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: RummyChick

Ue plays an “Immigration Officer” on the aforementioned TV show...

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0124079/


11 posted on 01/09/2026 5:22:37 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14/12- 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: DAC21

“Michael Landon would have disowned her.”

Michael Landon favored her above all the others in the cast, so much so that it caused friction.

Michael Landon was a pig — a prolific womanizer.

(He was cute, though.)


12 posted on 01/09/2026 5:24:03 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: DAC21

Her character killed her baby brother by wishing him dead since she was a jealous lil turd. Now Melissa Anderson and Sydney Greenbush now those were the real stars of the show


13 posted on 01/09/2026 5:25:38 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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“Michael Landon was a pig — a prolific womanizer”

Your point? Step up from Timothy Busfield.


14 posted on 01/09/2026 5:26:36 PM PST by DAC21
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To: RummyChick

Signature role was Arnold Poindexter in “Revenge of the Nerds.”


15 posted on 01/09/2026 5:26:50 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: rlmorel

I had a friend, one that I thought was pretty intelligent, and she could not understand why our government could not work like the West Wing and why there wasn’t a real life Jed Bartlett as President. I gave up trying to explain it to her.


16 posted on 01/09/2026 5:26:53 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: RummyChick

Darn... I liked some of his work, too.


17 posted on 01/09/2026 5:28:11 PM PST by Skywise
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To: RummyChick

Why would someone do this on the set of a show between takes? Aren’t there a lot of people around? Maybe the other adults were okay with it.


18 posted on 01/09/2026 5:29:11 PM PST by Rastus
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To: rlmorel
“The West Wing” was every Leftist’s wet dream about how they see themselves.

It was the libs’ wet dream of what the Clinton administration should be … as opposed to what it was in reality. Some of them still think Martin Sheen was actually President.

19 posted on 01/09/2026 5:29:41 PM PST by Rummyfan (Ok In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.👨 so t tv)
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20 posted on 01/09/2026 5:30:12 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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