Throughout the past few decades, the gaming community has been filled to the brim with experiences from Mario, Fortnite, and the classic Minecraft. Over these years, the community has grown to about 3.5 billion people worldwide. Millions of games across multiple different platforms hold billions of more users enjoying their digital escape. However, in recent years, this “digital escape” has turned more into a digital nightmare.

Predators are one of the biggest online threats to children on the internet. Without a doubt, if there’s an online game, they are bound to be lurking behind false profiles until they find their perfect time to strike. And even with the millions of applications to hide throughout, they tend to take a certain liking to one specific platform: Roblox.

While Roblox forces you to enter your age upon account creation, it is very easy to deceive the platform and submit a false DOB, which ends up giving predators access to games with younger children, posing as children themselves.

Parents have made many complaints, even lawsuits against the company, which hold graphic claims against Roblox. These lawsuits address the exploitation of these children, due to the lack of moderation designed to protect them.

One mother, Becca Dallas, lost her 15 year old son Ethan to suicide, caused by the horrors hidden behind these seemingly harmless avatars.

Ethan was just 12 years old when the messages began. Posing as a kid his age, one of the hundreds of thousands of predators hidden inside the platform started a friendship with him. He would play and hang out with his “friend” on a daily basis. But after a while, the “friend” got more and more graphic as they kept communicating.

The 37 year old man behind the screen began grooming Ethan. It started with little things to gain the boy’s trust. This kept going until the point where he was able to manipulate Ethan to turn off the parental controls that his parents had set for his safety. He had Ethan move their chats over to Discord, which took their conversations on a much darker and horrific path.

In Discord, the man began asking Ethan to send him graphic and sexually explicit photos. Vulnerable, and unknowing of the danger he was in, Ethan complied, though the threat he was dealing with began to escalate. Ethan was threatened, told that if he mentioned anything of their conversations to his parents, the man would share the pictures he had received. Ethan, scared of being in trouble with his parents, obeyed the demand, and kept quiet, continuing to send graphic photographs of himself to the perpetrator.

Ethan did eventually confide in his mother about the situation, but nothing could help the internal scars the man had left on him. The trauma from these immoral acts led to him ending his own life on April 3rd 2024.
His mother filed multiple complaints, suing the company for the death of her son. The lawsuit alleges that both companies: Roblox and Discord, lack the proper, and necessary security measures to insure the safety of the children who use these applications.

Dallas was not the only parent to file a lawsuit against the companies. Multiple other worried parents and guardians across the country have complained about the lack of care and safety these companies have programmed into their software.

Adding on to these allegations, the Los Angeles County government sued Roblox as well, claiming the online gaming company misled the parents of these children into thinking it is a safe and secure community that is keeping their children away from dangerous predators, but this is not the case.

County Counsel Dawyn R. Harrison, who filed the lawsuit, claimed that Roblox has “chosen profit over safety.” Saying they have given sexual predators the tools to access the communities that these children are in, ending in the tragic grooming and sexual exploitation of children. Nebraska has also just filed a lawsuit of their own against the company, in which they stated the game developers have “enabled adult predators to groom children.”

The lawsuit also included the simulated sexual activity that has continuously been overlooked by the game developers. As you can tell, this is the perfect place for these predators to roam.

Not just one but thousands of these types of simulations are open to kids of any age that demonstrate sexual activity. Naked avatars walk around the servers, while other people can receive or give lap dances. This is not something that “accidentally slipped through”, this is pure ignorance.

Leaving these games open to underage children is beyond unacceptable. Just leaving them on the platform is a violation of everything that this company did and should still stand for.

Promoting your game as the safe platform for children while sexual predators are allowed to run rampant on Roblox while children are present is completely intolerable. These pedophiles prey on the children, knowing that they are completely oblivious to the danger they are actually in. They know how these children behave and know exactly how to get through to them. And for Roblox? They have sat back and watched it happen.

But the most terrifying thing about this? This isn’t even a third of the lawsuits that Roblox is facing. Not even a tenth. As of April 2026, the company has over one hundred suits filed against them.

These numbers are continuously growing and the offenses against these children won’t stop until Roblox takes the blame and acts on it. The company needs to take action to not just avoid but put a complete stop to the predators and their evil actions.

The predators that linger around in these servers are getting exactly what they want. Roblox is handing it right to them on a silver platter. The game has strayed so far from the once friendly and harmless gaming site it once was. It has become an online shopping spree for these online predators.The game has become their hunting ground. It has become everything that parents around the world fear.