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actor and director Timothy Busfield He has been missing for three days since an arrest warrant was issued for allegedly child sex abuse of two boys at one of his shows, and U.S. Marshals have been asked to help find him.
Bousfield, 68, is known for his role in such roles as Thirties and west wing;His directing credits include dozens of television shows. He is married to an actress Melissa Gilbert Since 2013. He has been married twice before and has three children.
The Albuquerque Police Department issued an arrest warrant for Bousfield, 68, on Jan. 9, listing three charges: two counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor and one count of child abuse.
The boys were 11-year-old twin brothers who were child actors and met Bousfield on the set of the Fox television series, according to a police affidavit cleaning ladyHe joined the company as a director in 2022. The boys are identified in the affidavit by the abbreviations “SL” and “VL” to protect their identities.
The investigation into Busfield stemmed from a report of alleged child sexual abuse filed by a University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH) doctor in November 2024. Police initially dismissed the case, but in October 2025, the boy’s mother filed a new report with police and Child Protective Services that contained additional information, leading to an arrest warrant being issued on January 9.
The boy’s mother told police her child was “groomed and sexually abused” by Timothy, who Busfield told them to call him “Uncle Tim.” She also added that before Busfield joined the cast, the show would often hand out iPads to parents of child actors on set so they could monitor their children, but this ended after Busfield joined the cast.
SL told his therapist that Bousfield “touched his ‘genitals’ and ‘buttocks.'” During the boys’ police interviews, SL said Bousfield began abusing him when he was seven years old. Both boys described multiple incidents in which they said Bousfield sexually abused them over the years.
When Bousfield was interviewed by police, he “admitted to police in a telephone interview that he may have entertained the boys and described the scene as a ‘fun environment,'” and “suggested that the charges were a form of retaliation by the boys’ mother after the children were terminated from the show,” according to the arrest warrant affidavit. new york times.
According to reports, the latest developments in the case people On Monday night, the magazine noted that in the three days since a warrant for Bousfield’s arrest was issued, he has still not been located.
APD dispatched the U.S. Marshals Service to help locate Bousfield and execute the warrant, an APD spokesperson confirmed people. The spokesperson also confirmed that Bousfield had not been “located, detained or arrested,” the report added.
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