I suspect that whenever some local darlin' found herself the target of a molestor, the word was quietly passed among the community's fathers. And that said molestor got "taken for a ride" into the country...and never came back. I've little doubt that the adult men in our town were capable of doing such a deed. Yep. And knowing it acted as a deterrent for those who might have otherwise considered the crime.
NW North Dakota and NW Oklahoma aren't that far apart, culturally.
Except for that lutefisk thing...(8^D)