Dr. Bethany Marshall

Parents use their children all the time.

We call it exploitation, interpersonal offending.

And yes, it is very, very dark.

They could not accept the reality that their boys had aged out.

They would not have this role forever.

But then if you get a predator on the set who has poor boundaries, I don't know if Timothy Busfield is, of course, but you have a predator, then you have yet another dark scenario where you have a predator whose parents are potentially asleep at the wheel.

Well, you know, when you have wealth, power, privilege, you should know the rules.

Timothy Bustfield has been on so many sets, as you pointed out.

So by now he's well acquainted with the fact that he could potentially be a target, right?

For people who are disgruntled or angry.

So he knows to watch his P's and Q's.

There was one interview with a makeup artist who said that everybody kind of watched out for Timothy Bustfield because he had poor boundaries and she used the word creep.

So I find that interesting that somebody else on the set said that.

That is right.

Here's what I think.

It could be that the little boy who's having PTSD and dreams about being touched by Uncle Tim is

Actually, in fact, his parents are coaching him and talking to him about sex and what it's like when somebody touches your private parts and that they are so excited over the prospect of a shakedown that this is the biggest topic in the household at this point and that it's that conversation that

that's actually traumatizing this little boy.

I had a family who brought a 16-year-old to me who had been raped by her best male friend who was also 16, but they would invade the session excitedly talking about the nature of the rape.

And I became aware that actually they were setting up the other family by continually planting stories in the 16-year-old's head