If folks don't want to mess with me, they shouldn't mess with my kids.
The adult in this situation should have stopped it. She not only failed to do so, she actively participated in it. So far, the other "adults" have failed to correct the problem or provide any consequence to this action.
Besides, as a pregnant mother of three, I would have a much better chance of a hung jury or acquittal on the "lioness protecting her cubs" defense, than the strapping linebacker that I married.
I was watching a special on tv the other day about vigilante justice. A little boy was molested by his karate teacher over a period of a couple of years (I think it was). The karate teacher eventually kidnapped him and dyed the boys hair black to disguise him. They caught the guy and took the boy back to his family. On the day the instructor was taken to court in handcuffs, the tv news video cameras were rolling and caught, in living color, the boy's dad standing at some payphones and when the perp came by he turned around, raised a gun and shot that SOB right in the head.
The district attorney wouldn't take this case to court, she said there wasn't a jury in the world that wouldn't side with the dad. The guy got off with a slap on the wrist.
When the dad was asked if he would do it again, he said yes.