We should be careful not to equivocate between pedophilia which in the technical jargon of research studies is a sexual attraction to pre-pubertal children and child sexual abuse which loosely is the act of sexually assaulting someone below the legal age of consent. They are two different things. An abuser might not be a pedophile in the technical sense, and a pedophile might not be an abuser.

So rates of pedophilic attractions and use of CSAM could be rising while rates of child sexual abuse is falling. I don't know if that's the case, but we shouldn't confuse the two things.