Patriots RB TreVeyon Henderson opens up about post on Massachusetts custody battle with abuse allegations

Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald on Sep 17, 2026

Published in Football

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Patriots running back TreVeyon Henderson opened up about a social media post he published Monday on X, referencing a Massachusetts legal battle involving the custody and gender identity of a 17-year-old who has been separated from their parents for almost two years after the father was arrested and charged with assault.

The parents, Joseph and Arlene Kutzko, have been fighting DCF to regain custody of their daughter since charges were filed in Jan. 2025, around the time they claim they refused to medically transition her to becoming a male.

In the post, Henderson, a devout Christian, shared a video clip from Fox News, quoted a bible verse and added: “These parents who want to honor our Lord and lead their daughter into the truth, and away from what she can’t see what will destroy her just as God has entrusted the parents to do. May justice be served.”

Henderson’s post had 3.3 million views as of Thursday evening. Asked whether he knew the custody battle began when DCF removed the child after allegations of physical abuse, Henderson responded with: “What abuse?”

Court documents obtained by the Boston Herald indicate the child accused Joseph of punching her, pulling her hair, and threatening to kill her. The allegations led to no criminal finding against the Kutzkos after reaching a non-guilty disposition with prosecutors, according to their attorney.

Earlier this week, WCVB reported court documents show charges will be dropped in December, so long as Joseph “follows certain conditions, including completing an anger management course, and staying away and having no contact with his child.”

Henderson, informed of these details, referred to the charges as just accusations.

“I think — so, I’m still doing research,” he said. “I’ve heard that charges were filed. But at the end of the day, they were filed. It doesn’t mean that he was guilty of those charges. It’s just accusations, just as the same way people make accusations against me. It doesn’t mean that those accusations are true. (They’re) just accusations at the end of the day.

“And so, yeah, I think you’re innocent until you’re proven guilty. So if he was guilty, then that’s on me, because I didn’t know all of that.”

Initially, Henderson echoed points made in the video clip he saw and posted on social media, then shared his own view.

“I think the biggest thing — what I saw on my end is, I saw the state take away someone’s child because they didn’t want to affirm their daughter as a boy, and I heard that the school, without the parents’ permission, tried to transition a child or do some sort of thing to transition her into a boy. And I don’t believe that’s right,” he said. “I believe the family, being a Catholic family and having certain morals that they go by and live by. I think they have the God-given right to raise up their kid to know the Lord, to honor the Lord.

“But of course, we all have free will, as well. But with that kid being under their parents’ authority, like we’re called, I’m called to honor my parents and respect my parents as long as it aligns with God.”

The Kutzkos’ attorney, Vernadette Broyles, claimed to the Herald that a restraining order still stands against the parents after an unidentified adult allegedly assisted Sophie in obtaining a restraining order against them after she had been in state custody for nearly a year.