One might have to consider that in a highly digital world... in a nation where it seems like lawsuit is only a trigger hair away...
Has it really "increased" or just more "exposed"? I used to think the same way, til mom pointed out things like that during the '60s were swept under the rugs and kept behind closed doors out of family shame.
If you ask me, I think the number was a WHOLE lot higher back in the old days before restriction on minors stepped in. Just that no one really talk about it.
That's not foolproof, a simple cut to the band and he/she disappears, never to be found again.
The best way imho is putting them to death. Why keep them alive at the expense of taxpayer's money, giving them things that we as law abiding citizens work our asses off for when they don't have to. How is it that fair?
For most sex offenders that get out of prison, re offends again.
Yiz