However, I suppose that it wouldn't be too long before I would have to inform someone - it may not be immediate as within a few minutes, but within a few days. I couldn't take the chance that it could be real. Rather, there is a much simpler, more basic, human moral obligation to seek justice for such an act. Nevertheless, had he confessed it within a private therapeutic relationship, I believe that the therapist would be ethically obligated to keep it confidential. Dr. Grohol's comments scare me a bit.
Lets leave it at that.
I feel sorry for him personally, but his judgment IMO couldn't have been worse. Painful and frightening as it would have been to carry out, the right answer was totally obvious. Incidentally, Larry Froistad was arrested and found guilty. As an aside, child pornography was found on his computer. He has since confessed to having sexually molested his young daughter.