I hadn't seen the above interview until now, but I still have a hard time believing any explanations given by DL. He has turned his interviews into self-promotions, it's not about Bianca, it is about changing other people's perceptions of him. As to "that paddle", I think that if a paddle had been used on Bianca to the extent that she became unconscious, it would have been disposed of as soon as she became very very sick. It may have had her blood on it. Since he had mentioned a paddle earlier, he now has to rescue himself and described it as thin with something taped to it for padding. This one he describes might in all probability be something newly fashioned with an intent of downplaying the brutality of "spanking" a two-year-old with a paddle. The new paddle won't be much, and naturally it will appear harmless, because DL said he would never hurt one of his children.
