Overview
- Busfield appeared via Zoom in New Mexico, did not enter a plea, and was ordered held without bond pending a pretrial‑detention hearing expected within five business days.
- He is charged with two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and one count of child abuse tied to alleged contact with twin child actors on The Cleaning Lady between 2022 and 2024.
- A detention motion outlines what prosecutors call a sustained pattern dating back decades and includes a recent report that he groped a 16-year-old during a B Street Theatre audition; no charges have been filed in that Sacramento claim.
- His attorney denies the allegations, says Busfield voluntarily passed an independent polygraph, and points to a Warner Bros.–retained investigator’s finding of no corroboration, which prosecutors dispute as incomplete.
- Institutional fallout escalated as Innovative Artists dropped him, U.S. marshals searched his New York residence, and court filings set a preliminary-hearing deadline of January 29 while he remains jailed in Albuquerque.