Former NFL player and devout Christian Tim Tebow opened up over the weekend about his effort to help victims of child trafficking and exploitation in the United States and across the world.
“I was made aware of this several years ago, just the depth of it by one of our team members,” Tebow said. “She said to me, ‘I believe there is 20,000 boys and girls that are still unidentified.’
“So, law enforcement can see their abuse and rape images but they haven’t been able to identify them. So, if you can’t identify them, how could you possibly get to them?”
Tebow’s foundation reportedly works with law enforcement in hopes of bringing the abusers to justice.
“We found that it’s not 20,000 kids that are unknown or unidentified, it’s over 50,000 boys and girls through the backlog that are unidentified in these global databases,” he added. “There are so many boys and girls and 65% of them are under the age of 12 and 4.3% of them – that’s 2,100 – are infants.”
Tebow worked with Homeland Security Investigations on “Operation Renewed Hope,” a three-week span of investigations into child abuse in 2023.
The foundation said it located “311 probable identifications of previously unknown victims, including 14 positive contacts and confirmed the rescue of several victims from active abuse.”
