Overview
- He appeared via Zoom in New Mexico, did not enter a plea, and was ordered held without bond pending a detention hearing within five business days, with a preliminary hearing due by January 29.
- He faces two counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor and one count of child abuse tied to twin child actors on The Cleaning Lady set, with prosecutors saying the boys were 7 and 8 at the time.
- A state motion seeks continued pretrial detention, alleging a pattern of grooming and exploitation of professional authority to access minors.
- Busfield denies the accusations; his lawyer says he passed a voluntary polygraph, and a Warner Bros.–commissioned investigator reported finding no corroborating evidence of on‑set misconduct.
- Court papers note an additional uncharged allegation from California involving a teenage girl, and U.S. Marshals searched his New York home, with reporters observing agents leave without apparent seizures.