I remember my sister-in-law telling me of such a thing back in 1940.
Her dad got this Masonic friends to take a pervert out behind a building, beat him so bad it put the pervert in the hospital. He disappeared from the area upon getting out of the hospital.
I know of two like that locally here in the ‘90’s. One would have been eliminated had neighbs not heard the child molesters’ screams; cops were called. The molested-as-a-child man went to the molester’s house, dragged him out his front door, beat the sh*t out of him to unconsciousness, put the molester in his truck, punched his face when molester revived, and took him to local family member farm to “cure” then bury the molester... neighbs probably wouldn’t have called the police had they known why.
Molested man faced zero consequences. Molester died a few years later, burning in hell as I type this.