Actor Timothy Busfield has made his first court appearance after turning himself in on criminal charges that he allegedly sexually abused two boys on the set of a TV series filming New Mexico, prosecutors say.
The Emmy-winning actor, who starred in Thirtysomething and The West Wing, was taken into custody in Albuquerque on two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and one count of child abuse that police allege happened on the set of Fox’s crime drama The Cleaning Lady.
Busfield, 68, strenuously denied the allegations through his lawyer.
“The claims being made against Tim are completely false, and we will fight this to the end until the truth prevails,” the lawyer, Stanton…