An arrest warrant has been issued for actor and director Timothy Busfield, who is facing charges of child sexual abuse.
Busfield is facing two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and an open count of child abuse.
The warrant has been issued in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where one child told law enforcement that Busfield allegedly touched them inappropriately at the age of 7, according to court records reported by the Independent.
The alleged incidents reportedly occurred around five or six times, when Busfield was directing the Fox crime series The Cleaning Lady, beginning in November 2022.
Court documents state that Albuquerque police began their investigation of Busfield in November 2024, after staff at the University of New Mexico Hospital told police it appeared children were being groomed on the set of the television show.
Those records claim that two children at the hospital did not accuse Busfield of sexual contact but did state that “Uncle Tim” would tickle them on the stomach and legs, and that they did not care for the tickling.
Busfield has not responded to the charges.
Busfield is best known for playing the Pulitzer Prize–winning White House Correspondent Danny Concannon – the love interest to Allison Janney’s Press Secretary C.J. Cregg – in The West Wing, from 1999 to 2006, and has also appeared in films including 1989’s Field of Dreams and Revenge of the Nerds in 1984.
He was born in June 1957 in Lansing, Michigan, and studied drama at East Tennessee State University. He has worked in theatre as an actor and director, with Broadway credits including A Few Good Men and Brighton Beach Memoirs.
For help, advice or more information regarding sexual harassment, assault and rape in the UK, visit the Rape Crisis charity website. In the US, visit RAINN.
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