Seven people in the entire federal government are trying to identify tens of thousands of child rape victims.
Now Tim Tebow is in Washington demanding Congress do something about it.
And what he showed senators on Tuesday will make you sick to your stomach.
Tim Tebow Exposes 89,000 Unidentified Child Trafficking Victims in Interpol Database
Tebow, founder of the Tim Tebow Foundation, testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism on Tuesday to push the Renewed Hope Act of 2026 – a bipartisan bill that would build the dedicated rescue team these children desperately need.
He told senators the number of unidentified children in the Interpol database has now grown to more than 89,000 series of abuse images.
And that's just one database.
Canada's Child Abuse Image Database has over 94 million uncategorized files scraped from the dark web.
Nobody even knows how many children that represents.
Senator Josh Hawley then put a map on the screen – a map of the United States covered in red dots.
Tebow explained what those dots were.
Each one is a unique IP address that downloaded, shared, or distributed child rape images in the past six months.
There are 338,000 of them.
Almost all involving children under the age of 12.
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Operation Renewed Hope Has Rescued 500 Children — and Needs Congress to Scale It
This isn't a problem without a solution.
The Tim Tebow Foundation, partnering with Homeland Security Investigations and international law enforcement, has been central to Operation Renewed Hope – a series of victim identification surges that started in 2023 and proven the model works.
The first operation in August 2023 generated 311 probable victim identifications – the most successful operation of its kind at the time.
The second, in early 2024, identified 19 additional children and rescued 8 from active abuse.
Operation Renewed Hope III in 2025 expanded the partnership to 47 countries and generated 386 investigative leads while safeguarding more than 100 children.
Across three operations, 1,119 children have been tentatively identified and 500 have been safeguarded.
Nearly half of them were American kids.
The problem is scale.
Homeland Security Investigations currently has seven – seven – full-time victim identification analysts handling this crisis.
Seven analysts against 89,000 unidentified children in one database alone.
What the Renewed Hope Act of 2026 Would Actually Do
The Renewed Hope Act of 2026 would require DHS to hire at least 200 investigators, forensic analysts, and criminal analysts dedicated exclusively to child exploitation victim identification – people whose only job is finding these kids and getting them out.
The bill passed House Judiciary Committee markup on January 13.
It has Republican and Democrat co-sponsors in the House.
Senator Hawley is pushing hard in the Senate.
Tebow was direct: "Our country's most precious and vulnerable lives have been forgotten. Every day, these children lose hope, and it's not the fault of law enforcement that these children wait. They need more resources, plain and simple."
The Tebow Foundation is also pushing on a second front.
Tebow and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation are filing an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to hear a landmark case against X – the platform formerly known as Twitter.
That case involves two teenage boys whose abuse images were reported to X, confirmed as real, and left up anyway.
X's defense: Section 230 immunity.
Twitter's own attorney once described child sexual abuse material as "popular content" in court – because it was getting views.
That's the world Tim Tebow is fighting.
Tim Tebow to Senate: Pass the Child Trafficking Bill or Children Keep Suffering
Operation Renewed Hope proved the model works in 2023 with a handful of analysts and a shoestring budget.
The Renewed Hope Act gives law enforcement the actual manpower to run that operation at scale – permanently.
Three operations over two years identified over 1,100 children.
Imagine what 200 trained analysts, working year-round with the full resources of DHS, could do.
These aren't abstract statistics.
They are children being raped on camera right now whose names nobody knows.
Tim Tebow is asking Congress to learn their names.
The Senate should pass this bill immediately.
Sources:
- Scott Thompson, "Tim Tebow testifies before Senate committee on bipartisan bill to combat child exploitation," Fox News, March 4, 2026.
- Josh Hawley Senate Office, "Hawley Exposes Child Trafficking and Online Sexual Exploitation in Subcommittee Hearing," Hawley.senate.gov, March 4, 2026.
- Tim Tebow Foundation, "Tim Tebow Supports Bipartisan Renewed Hope Act of 2026 To Rescue Victims of Online Child Sexual Exploitation," TimTebowFoundation.org, January 12, 2026.
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, "ICE, international partners conduct Operation Renewed Hope III," ICE.gov, June 13, 2025.
- Congresswoman Laurel Lee, "Congresswoman Lee Reintroduces Bipartisan Renewed Hope Act," LaurelLee.house.gov, January 9, 2026.
