Emmy-winning actor and director allegedly touched child inappropriately on set of The Cleaning Lady TV series
Authorities in New Mexico issued an arrest warrant recently for the director and Emmy-winning actor Timothy Busfield to face a child sexual abuse charge.
An investigator with the Albuquerque police department filed a criminal complaint in support of the charge, which says a child reported that Busfield touched him inappropriately. The acts cited in the warrant – issued on Friday – allegedly occurred on the set of The Cleaning Lady, a TV series Busfield directed and acted in.
The child said the first incident happened when he was seven years old and Busfield touched him three or four times. Busfield allegedly touched him five or six times on another occasion when he was eight.
The child’s mother reported to New Mexico’s child protective services (CPS) that the abuse occurred between November 2022 and spring 2024, the complaint said.
