Yeah I think the State misses the point here if people are confessing for Child Abuse currently because they won't be jailed that simply won't do that if they c

Yeah I think the State misses the point here if people are confessing for Child Abuse currently because they won't be jailed that simply won't do that if they can be jailed. The whole point of confession of things like this is not to just say you have a get a out of free jail card but to push people to actually repent wholely. Its certainly a religious morals argument but I think its also a strong argument that being able to admit something to priest can be a first step toward pushing people to turn themselves in. Granted I don't know the statistics on how often that this happens this way I think if there was no ability to talk about it people would just not talk about it and couldn't be convinced or pushed morally by another human being to tell the authorities.