all agreed that man should NEVER have kicked the woman in the story.

But knowing it was asked by a medical professor as some sort of a case study in forensic medicine, now it should be viewed as relationship between forensic medicine being applied to such cases. The presumption that the man was judged haphazardly, brings the importance of forensic medicine or investigation in the case (which I presume was the message being relate by the professor to his students.

Of course this is just a presumption as the OP had never told the whole scenario. There is always two sides of the coin as there are two sides of a circle!