更新时间：2026年2月6日 / 美国东部时间下午1:08 / CBS新闻
新墨西哥州伯纳利洛县地方检察官办公室周五表示，该州大陪审团已以4项与儿童进行非法性接触的罪名起诉演员蒂莫西·布斯菲尔德。
该办公室在社交媒体上表示，此案预计将进入审判阶段。案件将由该办公室的特别受害者部门负责起诉。
今年1月，阿尔伯克基警察局一名调查人员提交刑事投诉后，已对布斯菲尔德发出逮捕令。投诉称，一名儿童报告称，当这名男孩7岁和8岁时，布斯菲尔德在电视剧《清洁女工》（The Cleaning Lady）的拍摄现场多次对其进行不当触碰。男孩称，他因害怕布斯菲尔德会对他发怒而不敢举报虐待行为。
布斯菲尔德的律师斯坦顿·”拉里”·斯坦因周五向CBS新闻提供的一份声明中表示，此次起诉并不意外，布斯菲尔德将对这些指控进行抗辩。
斯坦因说：”令人深感关切的是，地方检察官选择推进这个从根本上站不住脚、在庭审中无法证实的案件。拘留听证会暴露了州方证据中的致命缺陷——这些漏洞无论如何也无法通过指控决定来弥补。这一起诉似乎是由事实或法律之外的其他因素驱动的。”
布斯菲尔德曾执导并出演这部在福克斯电视台播出了四季、2025年完结的剧集。投诉称，虐待行为发生在2022年11月至2024年春季之间，男孩的母亲在一名律师的建议下带他去医院后，才举报了此事。
根据投诉内容，男孩的双胞胎兄弟也向当局表示，他也曾被布斯菲尔德触碰，但未具体说明地点。他称，担心举报所谓虐待行为会惹上麻烦。
《清洁女工》的制作方华纳兄弟娱乐公司（Warner Bros.）对这些虐待指控进行了内部调查，但未能证实。去年秋天接受警方询问时，布斯菲尔德告诉当局，男孩的母亲因孩子在《清洁女工》中被替换而寻求报复，他还称自己在拍摄现场可能会抱起孩子挠痒痒。他形容拍摄现场是一个充满趣味的环境。
1月13日，布斯菲尔德向警方自首。他因儿童性虐待指控被关押在伯纳利洛县大都会拘留中心。在提供给TMZ的一段视频中，布斯菲尔德否认了这些指控。
法院文件显示，就在布斯菲尔德自首当天，另一项指控也被提交给执法部门。一名当时16岁女孩的父亲称，布斯菲尔德在加州一家剧院（布斯菲尔德联合创办）试镜期间亲吻并不当触碰了女孩。文件称，布斯菲尔德恳求这家人如果他接受治疗就不要举报此事，女孩的父亲同意了。文件还称，这起事件发生在几年前。
布斯菲尔德的律师还表示，针对该演员的所有指控”完全是虚假的”。
布斯菲尔德最初被关押且不准保释，1月底在等待审判期间获释。
2026年1月20日，新墨西哥州阿尔伯克基市伯纳利洛县法院，蒂莫西·布斯菲尔德出庭听证。 AJ Skuy / AP
地方检察官办公室没有透露布斯菲尔德面临的指控的更多细节。
布斯菲尔德因出演《白宫风云》（The West Wing）、《梦幻之地》（Field of Dreams）和《三十而立》（Thirtysomething）而为人熟知，后者为他赢得了1991年艾美奖剧情类剧集最佳男配角奖。他与演员梅利莎·吉尔伯特（Melissa Gilbert）结婚，后者在相关指控出现后停用了自己的Instagram账号，并通过公关人员表示，在法律程序进行期间，她不会应布斯菲尔德律师的要求发表任何声明。
Actor Timothy Busfield indicted on 4 counts of sexual contact with a child in New Mexico
Updated on: February 6, 2026 / 1:08 PM EST / CBS News
A New Mexico grand jury indicted actor Timothy Busfield on four counts of criminal sexual contact of a child, the Bernalillo County District Attorney’s office said Friday.
The case is expected to move forward to trial, the office said on social media. The case will be prosecuted by the office’s Special Victims Unit.
An arrest warrant was issued for Busfield in January after an investigator with the Albquerque Police Department filed a criminal complaint that said a child reported the actor touched him inappropriately multiple times on the set of the series “The Cleaning Lady” when the boy was 7 and 8 years old. He said was scared to report the abuse because he feared Busfield would get mad at him.
In a statement provided to CBS News on Friday, Busfield’s attorney, Stanton “Larry” Stein, said the indictment was not unexpected and that Busfield would fight the charges.
“What is deeply concerning is that the District Attorney is choosing to proceed on a case that is fundamentally unsound and cannot be proven at trial,” Stein said. “The detention hearing exposed fatal weaknesses in the State’s evidence — gaps that no amount of charging decisions can cure. This prosecution appears driven by something other than the facts or the law.”
Busfield directed and acted in the series, which ran on Fox for four seasons and ended in 2025. The complaint alleged that the abuse occurred between November 2022 and spring 2024, and was reported after the boy’s mother took them to a hospital on the advice of a lawyer.
The boy’s twin brother also told authorities he was touched by Busfield, but did not specify where, according to the complaint. He said he feared getting in trouble for reporting the alleged abuse.
Warner Bros., the producer of “The Cleaning Lady,” conducted its own investigation into the abuse allegations but was unable to corroborate them. In an interview with police last fall, Busfield told authorities that the boys’ mother was seeking revenge for the boys being replaced on “The Cleaning Lady” and said he would have likely picked up and tickled the boys while on set. He described the set as a playful environment.
On January 13, Busfield turned himself into police. He was booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center in Bernalillo County on a child sex abuse charge. Busfield denied the allegations in a video provided to TMZ.
The same day Busfield turned himself in, another allegation was reported to law enforcement, according to a court filing. A father of a then-16-year-old girl alleged Busfield kissed and inappropriately touched the girl while auditioning for a role at a California theater that Busfield co-founded. Busfield begged the family not to report the incident if he received therapy, according to the filing, and the girl’s father agreed. The incident occurred several years ago, the documents said.
Busfield’s lawyer also said all the charges against the actor are “completely false.”
Busfield was initially held without bond before being released from jail pending trial in late January.
Timothy Busfield appears at a hearing at the Bernalillo County Courthouse, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026, in Albuquerque, N.M. AJ Skuy / AP
The district attorney’s office did not share further details about the charges Busfield faces.
Busfield is known for appearances in “The West Wing,” “Field of Dreams” and “Thirtysomething,” the latter of which won him an Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series in 1991. He is married to actor Melissa Gilbert, who deactivated her Instagram account amid the allegations and said through a publicist she will not release any statements at the request of Busfield’s attorneys while the legal process unfolds.
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