Tim Tebow testifies before Senate committee on bipartisan bill to combat child exploitation

Former NFL quarterback and Tim Tebow Foundation founder Tim Tebow emphasizes the need for increased resources to combat child abuse and exploitation on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’

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 escalating crisis of online child exploitation. 

Tebow, the founder and chairman 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 database at Interpol, and their identities were unknown.

Tebow said more of the same on Tuesday, when he broke down "Operation Renewed Hope," the largest victim identification operation in the world. 

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Tim Tebow testifies before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance on Capitol Hill on March, 6 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

"Over the course of three operations — 1,119 children have been tentatively identified. 500 children have been safeguarded. Almost half of those were American children," Tebow said during his testimony. 

"In preparation for this hearing, we asked Interpol what the new number was of unidentified images. And it’s now over 89,000 series. And that’s just one database. The U.K. has a database called CAID. The Child Abuse Image database. Canada has a database. Their database has over 94 million uncategorized files waiting for assessment that it has scraped from the dark web.