Why wasn't this in the Ten Commandments?

This looks like a really good rule.

Do not allow others to molest children, expose all molesters to authorities, they are the worst garbage to infest any society.

Maybe it was on that set of tablets Moses smashed — it's certainly a more useful law than the ones about how to cook goats or what kind of clothes to wear or the injunction to do nothing useful on Sunday. But no, that's from the hobo ethical code.

Isn't it nice that hobos have a better moral foundation than priests?

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