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Former Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Tim Tebow stormed Congress on March 3 and delivered an impassioned speech on child sex trafficking.
He began by speaking about unidentified victims of online child sexual abuse. Tebow pointed out that just two years ago, that number was estimated at about 20,000, but research collaborations through the Tim Tebow Foundation found that number was a gross underestimate, with more than 57,000 children still unidentified.
“(The kids) pray every day that we will respond,” Tebow said. “But how should we react?”
Tebow’s testimony primarily concerned child exploitation in the digital space, and he called on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Crime and Counterterrorism Subcommittee to find flaws in the federal investigative system to better assess child trafficking crimes.
Tebow’s full testimony can be viewed here.
How did Congress react to Tebow’s comments?
The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism is led by Sen. Josh Hawley. Hawley has long supported Tebow’s statements. In December 2025, he called child trafficking “a scourge on our society.”
Hawley was one of the first to challenge the subcommittee to change its view of these crimes.
Mr Hawley said what the government currently lacks to attack child trafficking is funding and the ability to identify victims. “These are children that the government could identify and rescue if we had the will and the resources,” he said.
Stakha Shehan, deputy director of the analytical services division at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, claimed that the organization received more than 21 million reports of child sexual exploitation in 2025, with more than 61 million media coverage of the reports.
What does Tim Tebow’s foundation do?
The Tim Tebow Foundation works in several areas, but its website says it specifically works on anti-human trafficking/child exploitation and has helped rescue more than 3,500 survivors of child sexual exploitation.
The foundation operates in 60 countries and has 46 safe houses for abused children around the world.
The company’s mission is to “bring faith, hope, and love to those who need a brighter day in the darkest of circumstances.”
