{"id":216642,"date":"2026-01-14T19:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/timothy-busfield-accused-of-sexually-abusing-teen-girl-16-after-surrendering-himself-to-police-for-similar-allegations\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:18:24","slug":"timothy-busfield-accused-of-sexually-abusing-teen-girl-16-after-surrendering-himself-to-police-for-similar-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/timothy-busfield-accused-of-sexually-abusing-teen-girl-16-after-surrendering-himself-to-police-for-similar-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Timothy Busfield Accused of Sexually Abusing Teen Girl, 16, After Surrendering Himself to Police for Similar Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/timothy-busfield\/\" title=\"Timothy Busfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Timothy Busfield<\/strong><\/a> faces another allegation of sexual abuse. <\/p>\n<p>The 68-year-old <em>West Wing<\/em> alum and husband of actress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/melissa-gilbert\/\" title=\"Melissa Gilbert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Melissa Gilbert<\/strong><\/a>, who denies all wrongdoing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/01\/13\/timothy-busfield-breaks-silence-on-allegations-surrenders-to-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surrendered himself to police<\/a> in New Mexico after a warrant was issued for his arrest. <\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/01\/10\/the-west-wing-actor-timothy-busfield-charged-with-child-sexual-abuse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">faces two charges<\/a> of alleged criminal sexual contact with a minor and one of child abuse in relation to allegations that he sexually abused twin boys who he met on the set of the Fox series <em>The Cleaning Lady<\/em> in 2022. <\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2172617\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to a pretrial detention motion examined by <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/timothy-busfield-faces-new-sexual-abuse-claim-by-16-year-old-girl-da-11884848\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/people.com\/timothy-busfield-faces-new-sexual-abuse-claim-by-16-year-old-girl-da-11884848&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PEOPLE<\/a>, <strong>Busfield <\/strong>has now been accused of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl. <\/p>\n<p>The motion, which asks a judge to keep <strong>Busfield <\/strong>in custody until his trial, noted that the unnamed victim\u2019s father, <strong>Colin Swift<\/strong>, accused the actor of sexually abusing her \u201cseveral years ago.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile auditioning for [Busfield] at B Street Threatre, the 16-year-old reported that [Busfield] kissed her and put his hands down her pants and touched her privates,\u201d the motion reads, per PEOPLE.<\/p>\n<p>It continued, claiming <strong>Busfield <\/strong>\u201cbegged the family to not report to law enforcement if he received therapy.\u201d Swift, who is a therapist, \u201cthought at the time that was the best thing to do.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><strong>Busfield<\/strong> denied the previous allegations in a video published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/01\/13\/timothy-busfield-surrenders-child-sex-abuse\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/01\/13\/timothy-busfield-surrenders-child-sex-abuse\/&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TMZ<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure most of you know, that are watching this, that I was ordered to come to Albuquerque \u2013 I\u2019m here now. I got the call Friday night, I had to get a lawyer. Saturday I got in the car, drove 2,000 miles to Albuquerque. I\u2019m gonna confront these lies. They\u2019re horrible,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Continuing, he added, \u201cThey\u2019re all lies and I did not do anything to those little boys and I\u2019m gonna fight it. I\u2019m gonna fight it with a great team, and I\u2019m gonna be exonerated, I know I am, because this is all so wrong and all lies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His lawyer also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/01\/13\/timothy-busfields-lawyer-issues-statement-after-he-surrenders-to-police-amid-allegations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued a statement about the arrest<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Just Jared<\/strong> reached out to his lawyer for an updated statement on the new allegations but did not hear back at the time of publication. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/01\/14\/timothy-busfield-accused-of-sexually-abusing-teen-girl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Busfield faces another allegation of sexual abuse. The 68-year-old West Wing alum and husband of actress Melissa Gilbert, who denies all wrongdoing, surrendered himself to police in New Mexico after a warrant was issued for his arrest. He faces two charges of alleged criminal sexual contact with a minor and one of child abuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-216642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}