Think the judge was a he.
Plus the child only had a few red marks. We had them as kids. the kids was not black and blue. Don’t know where you draw the line on red marks but just saying we lived.
I suppose by those standards, we were abused as kids-when we were 8-12 years old, we had our legs switched with the small branches of dogwood and other flexible bushes, like other ranch kids did for doing stupid and dangerous stuff like going into the pasture with a bull then leaving the gate open, playing war with a real firearm or otherwise using one unwisely-and the gun(s) were taken away for weeks-we survived, too, but that was another time and place...