I have seen some pictures of welts on the boy’s thighs but have only read reports of lacerations to his testes. Reports are often false and vindictive.
I have read that he has fathered multiple children out of wedlock. In 2012 the CDC reported 40.7% of births are out of wedlock. ( http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/unmarried-childbearing.htm )
I have spanked my kids but I do not switch them. I found that by having spanked them early they listened much better as they got older. Mostly I would flick them on the head to get their attention, which sharpened their focus very quickly.
Sons often spend their time as fathers replicating the way they were fathered of making up for the mistakes of their fathers. I do not judge anyone but myself. My kids KNOW they are loved.
Proverbs 13:24
I pray he will bring his children up in the way of the father.
They are not welts, man, they were bleeding.
There were multiple welts, and they looked up along his whole sides. The testes don’t make me wince any more than the others (yes, I’m a woman).
Sorry, while I am very much willing to go physical, and he knows it, I would not “switch” a child this way for discipline, repeatedly and apparently on bare skin.
You are right about the “vindictive” part, as these days just a wimpy touch is considered “abusive”. But there ARE cases of physical ABUSE, as opposed to DISCIPLINE, whether that is intended or not.