{"id":916036,"date":"2026-10-01T02:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916036\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T02:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:24:13","slug":"timothy-busfield-seeks-support-from-child-actors-parents-in-sex-abuse-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916036\/","title":{"rendered":"Timothy Busfield Seeks Support From Child Actors’ Parents in Sex Abuse Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Timothy Busfield<\/a> is trying to line up some unlikely support in his child sex abuse case … parents of other child actors who worked on the show “The Cleaning Lady” … TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n

According to new court docs, obtained by TMZ, Busfield wants several parents with ties to the show available to testify as he fights to get his indictment tossed … butting heads with prosecutors, who are trying to exclude witnesses from an upcoming hearing on his motion to dismiss.<\/p>\n

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And the parents aren’t alone on his witness list … Busfield’s team also named several crew members from the series … including a director of photography, a hair and makeup worker, a line producer, a COVID nurse, and a stand-in actor … who the defense says are ready to testify in the case.<\/p>\n

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Busfield’s lawyers say prosecutors have known about these witnesses for months … and already had statements from them challenging the State of New Mexico’s version of events.<\/p>\n

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Prosecutors want the witnesses blocked from the upcoming hearing … arguing Busfield’s team waited too long to formally disclose them and left the State with little time to prepare.<\/p>\n

Busfield’s side says that’s bogus … claiming the State had the names, contact info, and statements for months, and that shutting them out over a notice issue would be way too extreme.<\/p>\n

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As TMZ previously reported, Busfield was indicted<\/a> in New Mexico over allegations he sexually abused child actors on “The Cleaning Lady.” He has denied wrongdoing and is trying to get the indictment tossed.<\/p>\n

Now, he’s hoping parents of other child actors and crew from the show at the center of the case can help him do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Timothy Busfield is trying to line up some unlikely support in his child sex abuse case … parents…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-916036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}