Grand jury indicts Timothy Busfield on child sexual abuse charges

After being initially notified of the allegations, Warner Bros. launched an internal investigation but found no evidence of misconduct on Busfield’s part. However, the Personal Life tab on his Wikipedia reveals several sexual assault allegations, in 1994, 2012, and two in 2026. In 1994, a 17-year-old extra who worked on Little Big League, a family comedy starring Busfield, accused him of sexual assault. After attempting to sue her for defamation, he lost the defamation suit, settled with his accuser, and then had to pay $150,000 to the law firm he accused of making up the allegations, the Deseret News reported at the time. In 2012, a 28-year-old woman accused Busfield of groping her at an L.A. movie theater, which he claimed was consensual. More recently, following the child sexual abuse charges, a man accused Busfield of molesting his 16-year-old daughter, who was auditioning for a role at a theater co-founded by Busfield. 

Making matters even murkier, The Cleaning Lady‘s director of photography Alan Caudillo claims he never saw Busfield tickle the children or talk to them unsupervised, but he did find the boys’ father, Ronald Rodis, “creepy” and “very aggressive,” THR notes.