Nice story. And not exactly unusual. I recall another story in Louisiana a few years back in which a family discovered someone had molested one of their children. They grabbed the perv, took him out to a cane field and pretty much flayed him alive with a bullwhip.
Lived in only two states in my life, TX and LA, and although TX has the more, ahem, harda** reputation, you REALLY don’t want to try anything crazy and cross folks in Louisiana. You’ll wind up dead, and both the cops and the DA’s will just chuckle over your corpse. One of the reasons I actually love Louisiana.
I am from La. originally. The stories I have heard from the ‘old folk’ would chill your blood.
They don’t play down there.
Kind of stupid to get revenge on you own. We have a saying “that’s why God made alligators.” No evidence.