Keeler-Hodgetts

INTRODUCTION

Katherine Keeler-Hodgetts and Brandon Tsukroff are the parents of twin daughters they have jointly parented since their birth in 2012. On June 22, 2021, four years after their relationship and cohabitation had ended, Katherine filed a request for a domestic violence restraining order (DVRO) against Brandon. In the request, Katherine stated Brandon “has been abusing me and our twin girls for years . . . . Recently, he has been surreptitiously filming our custody exchanges without my consent, which is upsetting both to me and to the children. Because of this filming and the many previous instances of abuse, the children and I feel harassed.” The DVRO request went on to describe several incidents that occurred several

1 years earlier in which Brandon had engaged in profanity laced rants, destroyed Katherine’s property, and threatened self-harm.1 Approximately one year later, in her May 27, 2022 trial brief, Katherine alleged for the first time that Brandon had “sexually violated” her throughout their relationship. During an incident which allegedly occurred while visiting her parents, Brandon “stripped her naked, gagged her, tied her hands behind her back, took her…