A federal judicial panel has gathered dozens of lawsuits into a single legal arena, consolidating claims that child predators used the popular Roblox gaming platform as a hunting ground to target minors.
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) ruled that 31 lawsuits accusing Roblox Corp., along with Discord Inc., Snap Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., should be centralized in California federal court. The move brings together allegations that predators exploited Roblox to groom children and push them toward sharing sexually explicit images across other platforms.
Like tributaries feeding into a single river, the cases now flow into one courtroom.
Allegations of Grooming Across Platforms
Plaintiffs contend that predators used Roblox as a gateway, befriending minors through in-game interactions before steering them to services such as Discord, Snapchat and Instagram, or to private text messages and video calls on mobile phones.
The lawsuits allege Roblox knew for years that its platform was being used in this way yet continued to market itself as a safe environment for children. Parents accuse the company of overstating its safety measures while failing to put effective parental controls, safeguards or clear warnings in place to reduce the risk of sexual exploitation.
