Do you think religions should be required to report sexual abuse when someone goes in to confess it? I have a family member that confessed to abusing

I'm not sure if there is any good measure, honestly. Recently I keep hearing about stories of Amanda Todd, a young East Coast kid in Canada who took her own life. First reports were about how people shamed her, fellow students. Now it's being learned some adult was extorting her, blackmailing her. I encourage the investigation, but does it help her now (dead), but maybe it helps people in the future in recognizing signs and for authority to see maybe she was bullied locally, yet really they were teenagers who equally knew little, and the real cause is some dirty man overseas on the internet?