Timothy Busfield rape scandal gets worse as his wife Melissa Gilbert makes things even more disturbing by sticking with him

The sexual abuse scandal of actor/director Timothy Busfield's gotten worse. While he's finally turned himself in after it looked like he may have tried to commit flight from arrest (USA marshals were searching for him), now he's been accused of sexually assaulting another teen girl a number of years ago:

Actor Timothy Busfield, known for his turn as Elliot on TV’s Thirtysomething and Mark in the baseball movie classic Field of Dreams, has been accused of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl after turning himself into authorities for two other sex crime charges.

As Breitbart News reported this week, Busfield turned himself into authorities in New Mexico after a warrant was issued for his arrest last week “on two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and one count of child abuse.”

Innovative Artists, which is based in Los Angeles and New York, has subsequently released the 68-year-old actor and director as a client, Deadline reported.

As reported here, the family of the third girl who was preyed upon by Busfield has spoken out against him:

Timothy Busfield has been accused of sexual abuse involving a third alleged victim.

The embattled actor, 68, was accused of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl “several years ago” in Sacramento, California, by prosecutors in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, in a motion filed on Jan. 14.

Colin Swift, the alleged victim’s father, reported the incident to investigators on Jan. 13, according to the motion, which was filed to request pretrial detention and was obtained by The Post. Busfield has not been charged in connection with the 16-year-old’s claim. [...]

Busfield allegedly “begged the family” not to report the purported incident to law enforcement “if he received therapy,” per the motion.

The motion says Swift, who himself is a therapist, agreed “that was the best thing to do” at the time. [...]

Gilbert, who married Busfield in 2013, released a statement to say that she is standing by her husband amid the allegations against him on Tuesday. Gilbert is not accused of any wrongdoing.

Well, Busfield has definitely stepped in it, and it's a shame the parents of the girl didn't go straight to the police at the time. As for Gilbert, even if she didn't commit any criminal offenses herself, that she'd stand by Busfield, not unlike how Hilary Clinton remained with Bill C. even after the sexual assault accusations against him (and the late author Alice Munro stayed with her monstrous husband even after it turned out he was a child rapist), is disturbing and appalling, and is bound to taint her Little House on the Prairie legacy for a long time. Gilbert later canceled a planned conference, and it's not hard to guess why.

Busfield's been ordered to be incarcerated without bail, and based on the severity of his offenses, the authorities are wise to prevent him from walking around publicly.