Dr. Bethany Marshall

Or you can be a sex predator, but also not be guilty of predating on two victims you're accused of.

You know, Nancy, instead of thinking about who's right and who's wrong, Timothy Bustfield or the parents, how about thinking about it as a group of people who acted something out together?

So again, this is made up, I don't know Timothy Bustfield, but let's say the parents are very angry that the boys are no longer hired for the show.

They get wind that Timothy Buttsfield is

potentially predatory.

And because of that, it entices them to set him up as having molested the boys.

And in that case, you can see that all the adults in the scenario acted something out together.

Or if Timothy Busfield did indeed molest these boys, he may have come up with formidable opponents who are actually looking

for an opportunity for a shakedown.

So I don't think this is gonna be one's an angel and one's a devil.

I think this is gonna be adults colluding with each other in a very terrible way with two little boys victimized being used as pawns by probably all parties involved.

I mean, Nancy, I have a lot of adults in my practice who were once child actors and a good number of them were used as pawns by their parents and their money was taken.

You know, Nancy, if the parents are already monetizing their children in one way as actors and

It would be interesting to know if they're willing to cross that line and monetize their children in other ways.

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.