The dark stain in his blue shorts was a red-brown stain on his underpants.The dark stain in his blue shorts was a red-brown stain on his underpants. It covered most of the front. It was still damp in the front, below the horizontal pocket in front of the boy's genitals. It was very clear that the boy had sustained some sort of injury to his groin. I looked up at the boy, seeking his permission to remove his shorts. He nodded as he continued to rub his badly bruised eye with the back of his thumb. From the wet streaks on his cheeks I realized that the boy was crying very quietly. Very carefully I placed my hand under his back and pushed forward to lift his buttocks off the seat. With my other hand I eased his shorts down. He winced in pain as I carefully pulled his underpants up and away from his groin. The cotton was stuck slightly to his flesh and I had to peel it away. What I saw was not pretty. The boy's penis was leaking reddish fluid, not blood because it wasn't thick enough. |