{
  "id": 15044666,
  "title": "Timothy Busfield Gets Sexual Abuse Indictment Tossed Over Prosecutors Failing “To Act In A Fair & Impartial Manner”; DA “Evaluating Our Options”",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/timothy-busfield-gets-sexual-abuse-indictment-tossed-over-prosecutors",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-16T21:06:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Deadline",
    "slug": "deadline",
    "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/10/timothy-busfield-sexual-abuse-indictment-dismissed-1237166121/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Almost a year after Timothy Busfield was charged with two counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor and child abuse stemming from alleged incidents involving two minor boys on the New Mexico set of the Fox/Warner Bros TV series The Cleaning Lady, the Emmy winner has seen the case against him dismissed. “The prosecuting […]",
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    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "NYT Arts",
        "title": "Child Sexual Abuse Charges Against Timothy Busfield Dismissed",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/child-sexual-abuse-charges-against-timothy-busfield-dismissed",
        "published": "2026-10-16T20:52:32.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Rolling Stone",
        "title": "Timothy Busfield’s Child Sexual Abuse Case Dismissed",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/timothy-busfields-child-sexual-abuse-case-dismissed",
        "published": "2026-10-16T21:22:31.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}