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Former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow appeared on Capitol Hill last week to urge lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee to pass legislation to combat child exploitation, trafficking and abuse — describing the effort as a fight for “people who can’t fight back” and their “darkest hour of need.”
Tebow, the founder and chairman of his Tim Tebow Foundation known as, The Tim Tebow Foundation, used concrete evidence before the Judiciary Committee to support the support of the Renewed Hope Act of 2026, or the bipartisan law that seeks to increase government resources to combat the exploitation and abuse of children.
Describing the problem as “fighting for people who can’t fight back at their most difficult time,” Tebow said his foundation is working “incompletely, but in every way we can” to support the fight against child abuse, including providing more support to law enforcement, and funding long-term recovery efforts to support victims.
His foundation currently provides assistance to 52 safe houses, and is in the process of expanding support to 19 more houses.
Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow prays before a game against the Oakland Raiders in 2011. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
“It’s a fine line between torture and honor,” Tebow told law enforcement on Tuesday. “And you’re the thin line,” he said, urging the chamber to act quickly to approve the bill.
“I’ve spent most of my life chasing an MVP that doesn’t really matter,” Tebow added. “I want to spend the rest of my life chasing the most vulnerable people.”
The Renewed Hope Act of 2026, which cleared a House committee earlier this year, seeks to establish a dedicated team of analysts, investigators, and intelligence professionals working within DHS’s Homeland Security Investigations, or HSI, to “eliminate conflict, coordinate, and harmonize child sexual exploitation investigations.”
This bill would specifically equip and train officers on victim identification, location, and rescue operations for unidentified children or children identified in a sexual abuse database.
Support for the legislation comes as the number of child victims who are not identified in child abuse databases has increased in recent years. According to the Tim Tebow Foundation, there are approximately 57,000 unidentified victims of child trafficking. The foundation insists these children remain hidden from official records and protection systems – as echoed by others who testified at Tuesday’s emotional hearing.
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Sen. Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, speaks at the forum. (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
In the past six months alone, Tebow noted that more than 338,000 unique US-based IP addresses have been identified as trading child sexual abuse images across so-called “peer-to-peer” networks.
“Every day, [these children] we pray that we will respond,” Tebow said in his testimony. “But how will we respond?”
“I am so grateful to members of Congress from both parties who came together to support the Renewed Hope Act of 2026. This law gives our nation the opportunity to build a strong team of investigators and investigators so that children who suffer are identified and protected. This is a problem we can solve.”
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee on Crime and Crime, has long prioritized the issue of child trafficking, which he considers a “scourge” in our society.
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“I am calling this sub-committee hearing to reveal how our youth are being trained, exploited, and neglected by the current system,” he said this week. “Congress must dismantle the criminal networks that profit from exploiting the most vulnerable among us and end child trafficking.”
Scott Thompson of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
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