Tim Tebow Urges Congress to Battle Child Sexual Exploitation with the 'Biblical Definition of Hope'
Michael Foust | ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor | Updated: Mar 07, 2024
Sports commentator and author Tim Tebow on Wednesday urged Congress to do more to rid the world of child sex abuse materials, telling a House committee he stands for the “biblical definition of hope” and believes both parties can work together for a solution.

The former Heisman Trophy winner and current ESPN commentator is an outspoken Christian who heads the Tim Tebow Foundation, a non-profit organization that serves the marginalized and fights child sexual abuse and exploitation.

Tebow made his comments to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance during a hearing on child sex abuse materials (CSAM) and the fight among federal, state and international partners to stop it.
More than 50,000 children, Tebow told the subcommittee, have been victims in child sex abuse materials but have yet to be identified.
“They're unknown,” Tebow said. “Until someone knows them, how could somebody rescue them?”
But there have been victories, he noted. Last year, he said, the Department of Homeland Security partnered with officials in 13 countries and domestic organizations including the Tim Tebow Foundation to make 316 probable identifications of child sexual abuse by using technologies such as facial recognition and artificial intelligence. More than half of them were in the U.S., he said.
“It was an incredible operation,” he said. “But that's a tiny dent.”
Tebow urged Congress to pass a proposed Victim Identification Bill he is championing that would, according to his foundation’s website, “build a rescue team of analysts to locate and protect the children seen in sexually abusive imagery at the global level.”

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