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You definitely shouldn't be teaching children "eye for an eye" or that turnabout is fair play. It's good to teach that actions have consequences, but it's not okay to tell them that rapists deserve to get raped, that's fucked up.
That sort of teaching is incredibly common whether you think it should be or not. If you have kids I'm sure you've done it yourself many times. "You ate Timmy's candy so now you have to give your candy to Timmy" is not fundamentally different from what I said above.
That's quite a bit different of an example. What you just said is actions have consequences. If you steal something, your punishment is a monetary penalty. That would be equivalent to, "you raped someone, you pay a fine and go to jail". If your example had little Timmy stealing candy from the perp, that would be more in line with the initial compare.
The examples don't hold up the best compared to something like rape because there is an exchange of items vs a physical action. A better comparison would be little Timmy got bit by little Sally so now Timmy gets to bite her back. Rational people don't teach their kids to bite back instead teaching them to get an adult to handle Sally.
All this to say there's also self defense which is notably different from retaliation.