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We have zero evidence of anything. It's going to be an uphill battle to prove anything happened at all. Your insistence of there being a pattern of abuse is in sharp contrast to the judge who released him on his own cognizance citing his lack of criminal history and the evidence. And yes, the parents made the accusation about the abuse. |
After they denied them. Not “didn’t report them”. Denied them. The only certainty to emerge thus far is that the prosecution needs a dramatic upgrade at the table because Busfield’s attorneys apparently eviscerated the Asst. DA in last week’s hearing. If he is guilty as charged, it’s probably going to take a miracle to get a conviction if this particular prosecutor is permitted to see it through. As one-sided of a hearing as possible, based on the filings and the language carefully chosen by the Court. |
Please don’t put words in my mouth. I have not insisted there is a pattern of “abuse.” I said there was a pattern of crossing boundaries. To me, accepting a massage from a 16 year old girl as a male teacher, tickling kids on set despite a no touching rule, and kissing a kid on the forehead are all examples of crossing boundaries. I have not once stated “abuse.” I have no idea if the accusations are true. But I do believe he crossed boundaries. |
I also think it was not a good idea to cross these boundaries given his past settlement. |
you keep accepting this massage as fact yet he hasn't been accused of it. That's a huge problem. |
If we can’t accept the massage as fact, then we also can’t accept his statement that the father of the 16 year old girl was trying to prostitute his own daughter for a movie script. |
Wrong yet again. Busfield has been accused of this act, and that’s why we’re discussing it. It hasn’t been fully substantiated, no. He has not faced a charge for this. No one wrote otherwise. Your style is to act as if people have made up random things and put them here. They have not. When Busfield was in hiding - that is the terminology used in broad news coverage before he surrender to arrest, after which his house was raided by a large cohort of law enforcement officers in upstate NY - entertainment sites began to comb through any available story about him. This is what has always and will always happen. This is not distinct from your repeated postings about the crimes and rumors regarding the children’s parents. Is the discussion of these crimes in this part of the board always like this? I wasn't reading DCUM when the Glee actor was on the lam. He killed himself while evading arrest for CSA charges, and some discussion suggested that Busfield was at risk for doing the same. That’s when the recap of his life to date, as far as controversies, emerged. None of this is specific or unusually cruel to him. Women and men accused of sex crimes are dragged the second those charges hit public awareness. |
Well the parents have also been accused of being fraudsters. |
To me, having con artist parents driving this is a huge problem. This will be tossed out due to lack of evidence. |
They haven’t been merely accused. They have been tried and convicted of fraud. In the father’s case, a massive fraud with hundreds of victims and millions of dollars in losses. In the mother’s case, apparently a pattern of serial frauds. Also, as to the refutation of the claims made by the father of the 16 year old. I read that it wasn’t merely Busfield who disputed the claims, but that another youth actor on the scene also disputed the claims, and provided all the details related to the father telegraphing his intent to make a claim against Busfield if Busfield didn’t advance his script. |
Well shoot, if you read it… I also read that Busfield forcibly put his hands down someone’s pants at the movie theater. He claimed it was consensual. He was married. Melissa has a proven track record of having bad picker. |
You seem to only read things that you don’t like about Busfield but have missed alllllll the negative stuff out there about the accusers and their history not to mention that the boys initially told the police nothing happened. Then suddenly, they remembered. What a coincidence. |
It doesn’t change the fact that he said it was consensual when it came to putting his hands down a woman’s pants in the theater. He was also married. That’s really bad behavior don’t you think? |
Wasn’t that the father’s claim after he didn’t get from Busfield what he wanted (a development deal of some kind)? The “hands down the pants” claim came AFTER the father told another youth actor that he was going to make sure his minor daughter Lolita’d Busfield to do for him what he wanted (the development stuff). Extortion scam, I guess. That’s the same story. Pretty sure we’re referencing the same claims. And if that’s the case, we’ve already discussed why those claims are still so questionable. |
Nope. The one I’m referencing is the movie theater incident. That is separate from the claim the father of the 16 year old recently made. |