Roblox Sexual Abuse Lawsuit
Imagine allowing your child to enjoy an online gaming platform, only to later discover that the game allowed them to be victimized by an adult sexual predator.
According to several new lawsuits—including a growing number of Roblox sexual abuse lawsuit filings—that’s what has happened to many children who were using Roblox, one of the world’s most popular online gaming platforms, with many of its games made specifically for children.
Roblox Corporation now faces a rapidly escalating wave of lawsuits for failing to do enough to stop child sexual abuse and exploitation on its platform. Families across the country have filed claims arguing that Roblox’s business model and safety failures have exposed millions of minors to possible grooming, sexual assault, and exploitation by predators.
Further, the plaintiffs allege that Roblox misled parents about the platform’s safety, delayed critical protections for children, and knowingly put profit over youth safety.
Chaffin Luhana defective product attorneys are currently investigating Roblox sexual abuse and grooming cases involving children who were groomed, exploited, or abused after connecting with offenders on the platform. If your child was harmed in connection with this platform, our team would be honored to review what happened and discuss your legal options.
What Is Roblox?
Roblox is an online platform launched in 2006 where users, primarily children, can play, chat, and build their own games, social rooms, and interactive experiences. Unlike traditional games with fixed content, Roblox is built almost entirely on user-generated “experiences” designed by independent developers.
Roblox Corporation is a publicly traded technology company headquartered in San Mateo, California. Roblox is its flagship product and is especially popular with children and teens. According to company filings, 20 percent of its users are under the age of 9, 20 percent are between 9 and 12, and 16 percent are between 13 and 16. As of 2024, Roblox reported an average of 82.9 million daily active users worldwide.
The platform doesn’t cost anything to access, but Roblox makes most of its revenue by selling a virtual currency called “Robux,” which children can use to buy items, upgrades, and access specific experiences. Developers, too, can earn Robux from their games and convert that currency into real money, creating a strong incentive to keep users—many of them minors—engaged and spending as much time as possible on the platform.
Roblox markets itself as a safe, family-friendly space with “robust” moderation and parental controls. Internal evidence and mounting lawsuits, however, suggest that the company failed to protect its youngest and most vulnerable users from severe harm.
How Does Roblox Work?
Roblox is supposed to be a place where kids can develop their imaginations while building, learning, and socializing in a safe environment. Lawsuits filed against the company, however, paint a different picture.
Roblox’s core features include:
- Open chat and messaging tools
- The ability to join games and experiences with strangers
- User-created worlds ranging from simple obstacle courses to role-playing clubs, nightclubs, and virtual “hangouts”
- Friend and follower systems that allow ongoing interaction
The freedom of the platform is attractive to users, but it can also create opportunities for predators.
Parents and Authorities Sound the Alarm on Roblox
In August 2024, “Cronkite News” published a detailed report documenting how online gaming platforms, including Roblox, have become a growing avenue for sexual exploitation of minors.
Federal investigators interviewed for the story explained that predators frequently used child-centric games to initiate conversations, build trust, and eventually draw the minor into explicit content or off-platform communication. According to law enforcement sources cited in the report, these platforms have become “hunting grounds” for offenders looking for places where children congregate.
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE)—a nonpartisan and nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that raises awareness about sexual abuse and exploitation—has included Roblox on its “Dirty Dozen List,” a list of 12 online platforms that facilitate, enable, and even profit from sexual abuse and exploitation.
Hindenburg Research, which specializes in forensic financial research, described Roblox in October 2024 as “a pedophile hellscape for kids,” exposing children to “grooming, pornography, violent content, and extremely abusive speech.” The firm adds that Roblox is “compromising child safety in order to report growth to investors…”
Core to the issue, Hindenburg continues, is that Roblox’s social media features “allow pedophiles to efficiently target hundreds of children, with no up-front screening to prevent them from joining the platform.”
These findings align with what parents have been reporting for years: children being approached by strangers in games labeled as “safe” or “family friendly,” inappropriate chat messages appearing without warning, and seemingly harmless role-play games containing hidden sexual content.
Numerous legal complaints describe situations where adults initiated contact through in-game chat, encouraged children to move conversations to private apps, or used role-playing scenarios as a way to normalize sexual behavior.
Roblox’s Failure to Protect Children
Roblox assured parents for years that it was doing all it should to protect children, but things were not getting safer on the platform. Since at least 2017, law enforcement and advocacy groups have warned of rampant sexual exploitation and child grooming on Roblox, yet the company failed to make any meaningful reforms. Plaintiffs alleged Roblox’s moderation and abuse reporting systems were dangerously weak, with delays and failures to act on thousands of reports.
The company’s optional and ineffective age checks also made it easy for adults to pose as children and for children to be exposed to inappropriate or even exploitative material. According to emerging litigation, Roblox knew, or should have known, that these risks were not isolated incidents. The company had years of notice from parents, media investigations, and internal data showing that predators were repeatedly using its tools to target minors.
The CyberTipline, operated by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), is the nation’s centralized system for reporting online child sexual exploitation. Major gaming platforms, social media companies, cloud services, and messaging apps are legally required under federal law to report suspected child sexual abuse material, grooming, enticement, and other child exploitation offenses to NCMEC.
In 2023 alone, the CyberTipline received more than 36.2 million reports, according to NCMEC’s public dataset. Roblox was responsible for over 13,000 of these submissions in 2023.
Meanwhile, Roblox profited from children’s virtual purchases, further incentivizing unchecked user growth over safety investments.
Roblox Responds to Pressure and Increases Safety Standards
Finally, beginning in November 2024, Roblox started to make some changes. That month, they announced a series of updates intended to strengthen protections for younger users.
In a report titled “Major Updates to Our Safety Systems and Parental Controls,” the company outlined changes that included a more detailed system for labeling user-generated content by maturity level, along with parent-managed restrictions on what content a child could access.
Parents were given the ability to lock settings that determined which experiences a child could join, whether they could chat with other players, who could send them friend requests, and whether voice chat was disabled entirely.
In 2025, Roblox began rolling out additional safety measures restricting how younger users could communicate. For players under 13, voice chat was disabled by default, direct messaging and certain forms of in-game chat were limited, and contact from unknown users was heavily restricted.
Roblox also upgraded its optional age-verification system. It still relies on government-issued identification—which many younger users do not have—but the company refined the flow and added clearer indicators to show when a player’s age had been verified. This was meant to help parents determine whether the people interacting with their children were truly their age.
The company noted it was using artificial intelligence to help detect communications that may endanger children earlier and alert law enforcement. Roblox stated the upgrades were part of its long-term safety roadmap, but given that the reforms were announced only after years of pressure, the changes seem reactive, not proactive.
Parents bringing legal claims argue that Roblox took action only when the problem had become so pervasive that it was undeniable and public pressure had intensified. They also note that these steps were too late for the children who had already been harmed on the platform.
Roblox Upgrades Not Enough?
While Roblox’s recent upgrades are an improvement, many experts warn that the changes aren’t likely to fully solve the underlying problems.
A report in The Guardian (April 2025) found that children as young as five were still able to chat with adults or enter sexualized “hangout” experiences despite the November 2024 changes. The report also noted that adults and children could still interact with no adequate age verification.
In an August 2025 report entitled “Is Roblox Getting Worse?“, WIRED raised concerns that, despite the company’s improvements to the platform, it still faced the bigger problem of “staying ahead of individuals using the platform to exploit players.”
An ex-detective quoted in the New York Post also warned that Roblox’s revised rules could give parents a false sense of security, as significant risks remain, including fake accounts, off-platform communication, and games masquerading as “safe.”
Lawsuits Against Roblox Increase
The legal actions against Roblox are not limited to a handful of isolated cases. The litigation now includes hundreds of individual lawsuits and state attorneys-general enforcement actions. In August 2025, WIRED reported over 300 of these cases already being investigated, while that same month, AP News reported that Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill filed suit accusing Roblox of creating the perfect place for pedophiles.
The lawsuit claimed Roblox had become a place where predators could exploit minors and compared the action to earlier litigation targeting large tech platforms over youth harm. Murrill was quoted in reporting stating that, because of Roblox’s lack of safety protocols, “it endangers the safety of the children of Louisiana.” She added that the platform was “overrun with harmful content and child predators” because it prioritized user growth, revenue, and profits over child safety.
Later, in November 2025, Reuters reported that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had joined the attorneys general of Kentucky and Louisiana, as well as many private plaintiffs, to sue Roblox in a separate case. Paxton was quoted as saying, “[w]e cannot allow platforms like Roblox to continue operating as digital playgrounds for predators.”
These governmental actions are significant, as they suggest that Roblox’s alleged failures not only put individuals at risk but also violate state consumer-protection and unfair trade practices laws, arguing that parents were misled about the risks their children faced on the platform.
A Growing Wave of Litigation
Meanwhile, the number of individually filed lawsuits against Roblox continues to increase. ABC News reported in November 2025 that the company was facing 35 lawsuits, with thousands of additional claims under investigation. Business Insider also noted that more than 300 incidents were currently under review while reporting on one specific case alleging that the platform caused the sexual exploitation of a 9-year-old boy.
In addition, state complaints reference dozens of FBI investigations and criminal convictions involving predators who used Roblox as a way to access their victims, reinforcing the argument that the dangers were predictable and known long before the company recently announced its safety upgrades.
Across both individual and government cases, plaintiffs are generally seeking:
- Compensation for medical care, therapy, and long-term psychological support
- Damages for pain, suffering, and loss of normal life
- In some cases, punitive damages against Roblox intended to punish the company and deter similar conduct in the future
- Court orders requiring Roblox to change how it designs, markets, and monitors its platform
Families and states argue that meaningful change will occur only if the company is held accountable for its lack of action that left children exposed to preventable harm.
As more parents learn how predators have used Roblox and start looking into their children’s online activity, the number of reported incidents is expected to grow. For families whose children have already been harmed, these lawsuits offer not only a path to financial recovery, but a way to push for structural changes that may protect other children in the future.
Types of Personal Injuries Possible with Roblox
According to the evidence so far, children on Roblox may be at risk for the following injuries:
- Sexual grooming
- Coerced sharing of sexually explicit images
- Grooming-related psychological harm, including academic decline, emotional trauma, and the need for medical or therapeutic intervention
- Sexual assault
- Sex trafficking, where contact begins on Roblox but escalates off-platform
- Rape or attempted rape
Chaffin Luhana Investigates Roblox Child-Exploitation and Grooming Cases
The attorneys at Chaffin Luhana are currently investigating cases involving children who were groomed, sexually exploited, or assaulted after using the Roblox platform. Our team is examining the growing body of evidence documenting how predators have used Roblox’s chat features, games, and user-generated environments to access minors, as well as the company’s long-delayed response to years of warnings.
If your child was groomed, coerced into sharing explicit images, threatened, exploited, or harmed in any way after contact with a predator on Roblox, contact one of our personal injury lawyers today. We understand how devastating these situations are, and we are committed to pursuing justice for children who were placed in harm’s way by companies that should have protected them.
Call us today at 888-480-1123 to learn more about your potential legal options.