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Former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, where he urged Congress to pass the bipartisan Renewed Hope Act of 2026, which addresses the growing online child exploitation crisis.
Tebow, founder and president of his Tim Tebow Foundation (TTF), gave emotional testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in March 2024, particularly when he read a message from one of at least 20,000 boys and girls whose images and videos of their sexual abuse and rape were housed in a global Interpol database, and their identities were unknown.
Tebow said more of the same on Tuesday, where he broke down “Operation Renewed Hope,” the world’s largest victim identification operation.
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Tim Tebow testifies before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Policing on Capitol Hill on March 6, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
“Over the course of three operations, 1,119 children have been provisionally identified. 500 children have been safeguarded. Nearly half of them were American children,” Tebow said during his testimony.
“In preparation for this hearing, we asked Interpol what the new number of unidentified images was. And now it’s over 89,000 sets. And that’s just one database. The United Kingdom has a database called CAID. The Child Abuse Images database. Canada has a database. Their database has over 94 million uncategorized files awaiting evaluation that they’ve pulled from the dark web. We don’t even know yet how many children that represents.”
Additionally, in the past six months, more than 338,000 unique IP addresses in the United States were identified that were exchanging child sexual abuse images over peer-to-peer networks.
The Renewed Hope Act of 2026 would establish and equip a dedicated workforce of analysts, investigators, and forensic specialists focused on identifying unknown children depicted in sexual abuse images so they can be located and safeguarded.
The bill passed the House committee on January 13.
Tim Tebow speaking at a Tim Tebow Foundation event. (Tim Tebow Foundation)
As of now, the Homeland Security Investigations Cybercrime Center has seven full-time victim identification analysts assigned to identify the large number of children affected by sexual abuse and rape. And identification requires a lot of time and coordination with jurisdictions before authorities intervene.
“Our country’s most precious and vulnerable lives have been forgotten,” said Tebow, the national champion Florida Gators who played three seasons in the NFL. “Every day, these children lose hope, and it’s not the authorities’ fault that they wait. They need more resources, plain and simple.
“I am deeply grateful to members of Congress on both sides of the aisle who are coming together to support the Renewed Hope Act of 2026. This legislation gives our nation the opportunity to build a stronger rescue team of analysts and researchers so that suffering children can be identified and protected. This is a problem we can solve.”
Tebow and his foundation, in partnership with the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), are also filing an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to hear a landmark case against X. The case centers on the platform’s failure to remove child sexual abuse material and its reliance on Section 230 immunity to avoid liability for the possession and distribution of this content.
Professional baseball player Tim Tebow visits “Fox and Friends” at Pak Gazette Channel Studios on October 9, 2019 in New York City. (John Lamparski/Getty Images)
With faith, hope and love as the three pillars of his foundation, Tebow continues to fight for what he calls the world’s MVPs: the most vulnerable people.
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