People and the media throw around the word “beating” pretty loosely. Dad was charged with simple assault. It’s not like one of those internet videos where the kid was being pounded by a group for 5 minutes after he was down.
Simple assault can leave scars, and one mans simple assault can be another mans beating. Would you like to depend on that gut stopping at simple assault if it were your son or might he go a little further like some of the people posting.