Towards the right person would have made a difference.!
The way society is today is one which is totally lawless and getting worse,so in whatever situation I'm always relieved/glad when a criminal gets their comeuppance one way or another.
Successive Governments have tied the hands of the police and also schoolteachers,made worse by the PC brigade. Hence all the feral children who grow up into criminals and criminals getting away with multitudes of crimes. Then the powers that be reduce policing ?

When crime is at its highest.
I don't see that any changes will ever be made until we revert back to discipline in the home/schools and other institutions and proper punishments fit the crimes that are carried out.
Pick up a newspaper every day and you'll see murders and sexual assaults rapes and robberies-DAILY !
The harm done against children is heartbreaking both in school and out and being a mother,grandmother and great-grandmother I'm constantly on the alert in case one of the children falls victim to some pervert. I'm not the only one who lives like this as people like myself never saw/heard the sort of sickness that goes on with babies or children and these perpetrators deserve all they get. Non-mothers wouldn't understand. Old as I am I'd willingly stand in for the over-worked police !!