A good priest would reveal a criminal, especially one harming a child.
A bad judge will only give him 60 days.
Welcome to New England, 2006.
What took this so long?
Why is this already not a law in all 50 states?
A good Catholic priest would urge the penitent to surrender himself - but cannot and must not go to the cops himself.
The priest can insist, using the strongest terms, that the person in the confessional should tell the authorities himself; but the priest cannot do so.