Sexual predators can be very bold when it comes to children and online communication. The state of Louisiana has had enough and is cracking down on adults preying upon children. Online games that allow chat features act as a virtual playground for sex offenders who pretend to be children in order to trick their victims.
While serving a warrant at a sex offender’s residence in Livingston Parish, deputies allegedly found their suspect chatting online with an innocent child playing Roblox who had no idea. That state sued Roblox and wants the company to disclose how this continues to happen and what they plan to do to stop it.
The man was reportedly committing a crime when deputies arrived to serve him.
According to Fox News Digital, police arrived at the unidentified man’s home with a warrant based on a crime very similar to what they allegedly caught him doing when they got there.
“He had a 14-year-old girl on the phone, he was basically disguising his voice, and that’s what’s so scary with these devices out there, these apps, that it will have no consequences,” Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason Ard. “And this kid had no idea they were talking to a 40-something-year-old man.”
Law enforcement said the man was a registered sex offender using Roblox to communicate with minors and should not have been playing the game in the first place.
The state of Louisiana wants answers.
Attorney General Liz Murrill told Fox News Digital during CrimeCon Las Vegas that these kinds of crimes continue to rise in the United States.
“This is not a victimless crime,” she said. “There are children who are being victimized to produce pornography that’s being traded, and there are children who are getting raped and hurt in a number of ways.”
Murrill shared interesting stats with Fox News Digital. She claims her state will likely process 90,000 tips about online child exploitation in 2026 alone. Authorities had already processed 30,000 cases by the end of May, and police have arrested hundreds of suspects. Sadly, many times, parents have no idea what’s happening to their kids.
“When we all grew up, we always look for the white van, the ice cream truck, things of that nature,” Ard explained. But now, things are much different and parents don’t always know what their kids are doing.
“Now we have this internet-based platform,” he added. “That device that we now have in our hands that we give in our children is the white van, right? That is the white van. It is now at your dinner table. It’s now in your bedroom.”
Ard said companies like Roblox aren’t doing anything to stop these evil adults, but he will.
Roblox reportedly denies being a playground for predators.
Though the subject of multiple lawsuits, including one filed by Murrill, Roblox staunchly denies the claims. Telling Fox News Digital the allegations “fundamentally misrepresent how our platform works and fail to take into account the extensive, proactive measures we are pioneering and implementing to set a new standard in online safety.”
Roblox CEO David Baszucki reportedly told Fox Business in 2025 the company implemented more than 100 new safety features to protect its most vulnerable users using AI.
“Video and image sharing between users has always been prohibited on Roblox,” a spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “Roblox’s technology makes it impossible for users to share images or videos in chat.”
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