After Timothy Busfield was arrested earlier this year on charges of sexual contact with a child, more than 70 people — including fellow actors — wrote letters in support of the actor known for his role on “The West Wing.” Peter Horton, Busfield’s co-star in the late 1980s Emmy award-winning dramedy “Thirtysomething,” called him a “good man.” In her own letter to the judge presiding over the case, Busfield’s wife, Melissa Gilbert of “Little House on the Prairie” fame, called her husband her “rock” and “protector.”
But the letters don’t align with interviews published by USA Today with several women who told stories of being groped and sexually assaulted by Busfield when they were in their teens and twenties.
