According to the mother in this latest lawsuit, her daughter was first targeted on Roblox in 2021 by a sexual predator who claimed to be a 12-year-old boy from the same North Carolina town, who groomed her on Roblox and Discord, convincing the child to send sexually explicit images through Discord’s servers.
Then, in 2025, the girl was targeted by another user, a 19-year-old predator who was able to find her through Snapchat’s “Quick Add” feature, which told the adult that the child user was locally based, the lawsuit notes.
This time things went much further, as the girl met with the predator twice, who drugged her and violently raped her both times, according to her mother.
The mother says she never would have let her child use the apps had she known they lacked basic safety features that one would expect from a game that advertises itself as a safe place for children.
“With their pervasive patterns of misrepresentations about safety, Defendants portray their apps as safe and appropriate places for children to play. In reality, and as Defendants well know, the design of their apps makes children easy prey for pedophiles, and Defendants had no appropriate safeguards to ensure that children were in fact safe or that predators were screened.”
– AW-001 et al v. Roblox Corporation et al
According to the lawsuit, the girl suffered severe and permanent emotional and physical trauma that will affect her for the rest of her life.
The complaint presents claims of fraudulent concealment and misrepresentation, negligent misrepresentation, negligence, failure to warn, unreasonable design, design defect and negligent undertaking.
Roblox Child Sexual Exploitation Lawsuits
The claim will be consolidated with similar Roblox child sex exploitation lawsuits in the Northern District of California, where they are centralized before U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg as part of a multidistrict litigation (MDL).
Judge Seeborg is expected to move toward selecting a small group of representative cases to prepare for a bellwether process, allowing the parties to conduct case specific discovery and schedule a handful of claims for early trial dates. These “bellwether” trials are typically used to gauge how juries may respond to certain evidence and testimony likely to be repeated throughout the claims.
However, if the parties fail to reach a Roblox lawsuit settlement agreement or other resolution once those bellwether trials and pretrial proceedings are completed, Judge Seeborg will likely begin remanding cases back to their originating districts for individual trial dates.
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