蒂姆·蒂博的基金会已在美国支持了超过50个安全之家——他表示，更多安全之家正在筹建中
作者：布雷安妮·德皮施
福克斯新闻
发布时间：2026年3月8日 美国东部时间凌晨4:00
前NFL四分卫蒂姆·蒂博上周出现在国会山，敦促参议院司法委员会议员通过立法，以更好地打击儿童剥削、贩卖和虐待行为——他将这项努力描述为“为那些无法为自己抗争的人而战”，并称之为他们“最需要帮助的黑暗时刻”。
蒂博是其同名蒂姆·蒂博基金会的创始人兼主席，他在参议院司法委员会小组委员会的慷慨激昂的证词中，为《2026年复兴希望法案》（一项旨在增加联邦资源以打击儿童剥削和虐待的两党立法）争取支持。
蒂博将这场危机定义为“为那些在最需要帮助的黑暗时刻无法为自己抗争的人而战”，他表示，自己的基金会正在“不完美地但尽一切可能”支持打击儿童剥削的斗争，包括为执法部门提供额外支持，并资助长期恢复工作以支持受害者。
他的基金会目前为约52个安全之家提供支持，并正在扩建至另外19个安全之家。
“在受折磨和被珍视之间只有一线之隔，”蒂博周二对议员们表示，“而你们就是那道分界线”，他敦促国会迅速采取行动通过该法案。
“我一生中花了太多时间去追逐一个不那么重要的最有价值球员（MVP），”蒂博补充道，“我希望余生都能去追逐那些最脆弱的人群。”
《2026年复兴希望法案》今年早些时候在众议院委员会的标记会议中获得通过，该法案旨在建立一支由200多名分析师、调查人员和法医专家组成的专门队伍，隶属于国土安全部国土安全调查局（HSI），以“协调、协调和同步儿童性剥削调查”。
该法案将为官员提供装备并进行专门培训，以识别、定位和营救身份不明的儿童或在性虐待数据库中被识别的儿童。
支持这项立法之际，近年来剥削数据库中身份不明的儿童受害者数量激增。据蒂姆·蒂博基金会称，估计有57,000名身份不明的儿童贩卖受害者。该基金会强调，这些儿童仍然未被官方统计和保护系统记录——正如周二情绪激动的听证会上其他作证者所呼应的那样。
仅在过去六个月，蒂博指出，美国已有超过338,000个独特IP地址在所谓的“点对点”网络上交易儿童性虐待图像。
“每天，（这些孩子）都在祈祷我们会做出回应，”蒂博在证词中说，“但我们该如何回应？”
“我非常感谢国会两党议员们团结起来支持《2026年复兴希望法案》。这项立法让我们国家有机会建立一支更强大的分析师和调查人员救援队伍，以便遭受苦难的儿童能够被识别和保护。这是我们可以解决的问题。”
密苏里州共和党参议员乔希·霍利（Josh Hawley）是参议院司法委员会犯罪与反恐小组委员会主席，他长期以来一直将儿童贩卖问题列为优先事项，并谴责其为“我们社会的祸害”。
“我召开本次小组委员会听证会，以揭露我们的青年如何被现有系统拉拢、剥削和忽视，”他本周表示，“国会必须摧毁从剥削我们最脆弱群体中牟利的犯罪网络，并制止儿童贩卖。”
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Tim Tebow urges Congress to fight child trafficking, abuse in emotional plea: ‘Darkest hour of need’
Tebow’s foundation has already supported more than 50 safe houses across the US — and more are on the way, he said
By Breanne Deppisch
Fox News
Published March 8, 2026 4:00am EDT
Former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow appeared on Capitol Hill this past week to urge lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee to pass legislation to better combat child exploitation, trafficking and abuse — describing the effort as a fight ‘for people who cannot fight for themselves’ and in their ‘darkest hour of need.’
Tebow, the founder and chair of his eponymous Tim Tebow Foundation, used the impassioned testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee to shore up support for the Renewed Hope Act of 2026, or bipartisan legislation that seeks to increase federal resources to fight child exploitation and abuse.
Framing the crisis as a ‘fight for people who cannot fight for themselves in their darkest hour of need,’ Tebow said his foundation is working ‘imperfectly, but in every way that we can’ to support the fight against child exploitation, including by providing additional support to law enforcement and funding long-term restoration efforts to support victims.
His foundation currently provides support for some 52 safe homes, and is in the process of expanding the support to an additional 19 homes.
‘It is a thin line between tortured and treasured,’ Tebow told lawmakers Tuesday. ‘And you are that thin line,’ he said, urging the chamber to take swift action to approve the bill.
‘I spent way too much of my life chasing a much less important MVP,’ Tebow added. ‘I want to spend the rest of my life chasing the most vulnerable people.’
The Renewed Hope Act of 2026, which cleared House committee Markup earlier this year, seeks to establish a dedicated workforce of more than 200 analysts, investigators, and forensic specialists working within DHS’s Homeland Security Investigations, or HSI, to ‘deconflict, coordinate, and synchronize child sexual exploitation investigations.’
The bill would equip and specially train officers on victim identification, location and rescue operations for unknown children or children identified in sexual abuse databases.
Support for the legislation comes as the number of unidentified child victims in exploitation databases has surged in recent years. According to the Tim Tebow Foundation, there are an estimated 57,000 unidentified victims of child trafficking. The foundation emphasizes that these children remain hidden from official statistics and protection systems — as echoed by others who testified in Tuesday’s emotional hearing.
In the last six months alone, Tebow noted that more than 338,000 unique IP addresses based in the U.S. have been identified trading child sexual abuse images across so-called ‘peer-to-peer’ networks.
‘Every day, [these children] are praying that we are going to respond,’ Tebow said in his testimony. ‘But how are we going to respond?’
‘I am deeply grateful to the members of Congress on both sides of the aisle who are coming together to support the Renewed Hope Act of 2026. This legislation gives our nation the opportunity to build a stronger rescue team of analysts and investigators so that children who are suffering can be identified and protected. This is a problem we can solve.’
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, has long prioritized issues of child trafficking, which he assailed as a ‘scourge’ on our society.
‘I am convening this subcommittee hearing to expose how our youth are groomed, exploited and overlooked by the existing system,’ he said this week. ‘Congress must dismantle the criminal networks that profit from exploiting the most vulnerable among us and put an end to child trafficking.’
Fox News Digital’s Scott Thompson contributed to this report.
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