Former NFL star, minor league baseball player, and ESPN college football analyst Tim Tebow was on Capitol Hill Wednesday urging lawmakers to do more to fight child sex trafficking.
As CBN News reported, Tebow’s foundation has been working for more than a decade to combat human trafficking and has helped to rescue 2,000 victims and bring more than 500 traffickers to justice.
“To sum it up, we strive to fight for people who can’t fight for themselves,” he said before lawmakers.
Tebow opened up his appeal before members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance sharing that there are more than 50,000 unidentified boys and girls worldwide who have been sexually exploited.Â
He added that those unidentified children are being abused, raped, and tortured and their images and videos have been captured online, but no one knows who they are.
“They’re unknown,” he explained. “And until someone knows them how could someone rescue them.”
According to his foundation, the U.S. hosts many of those websites that contain this harmful material – more than any other nation in the world. Â
Last August, the pro athlete campaigned to raise more than $1 million to raise awareness on the
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