Emmy award winner faces charges of inappropriately touching a minor while on set directing a TV series
A judge has ordered that actor Timothy Busfield be released from jail during a detention hearing on child sex abuse charges .
The order Tuesday by state district court judge David Murphy is linked to accusations that Busfield inappropriately touching a minor while working as a director on the set of the series The Cleaning Lady.
The judge ordered that the defendant was released on his own recognizance, pending trial. Busfield will be supervised upon release by a pretrial service in Albuquerque, and can leave the state to live at home, the judge said.
Busfield, an Emmy award-winning actor who is known for appearances in The West Wing, Field of Dreams, and Thirtysomething, was ordered held without bond last week at his first court appearance. Busfield called the allegations lies in a video shared before he turned himself in.
