Parents trusted Roblox to keep their kids safe while they played online games with friends.
The gaming giant marketed itself as the safest platform on the internet for children.
But Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier just blew one lie wide open with a lawsuit that should terrify every parent in America.
Florida Exposes Roblox's Predator Pipeline
Uthmeier filed a 76-page lawsuit in Baker County Circuit Court accusing Roblox of systematically failing to protect children from sexual predators while lying to parents about the platform's safety.¹
The lawsuit doesn't mince words about what's happening on Roblox.
"These predators use the Roblox app to find, groom, and abuse children," the complaint states. "Florida children have been coerced to take and send explicit sexual images of themselves. Others have been physically abducted and raped."²
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Let that sink in for a moment.
This isn't about kids seeing inappropriate content or hearing bad language.
Florida investigators documented predators using Roblox's in-game currency — called "Robux" — to bribe children into sending sexually explicit photos of themselves.³
The Attorney General's office created test accounts posing as children aged 7, 8, and 10 to see how easy it was for predators to access kids.
They found exactly what parents feared.
Adults could freely contact children with virtually no age verification, no parental consent requirements, and no effective monitoring.⁴
"Roblox aggressively markets to young children but fails to protect them from sexual predators," Uthmeier said in a video statement announcing the lawsuit.⁵
The platform has 80 million daily active users, and roughly 40% of them are under age 13.⁶
That's 32 million children potentially exposed to predators every single day.
Roblox CEO: Predator Crisis is an 'Opportunity'
CEO David Baszucki appeared on the New York Times' "Hard Fork" podcast in November and was asked directly about predators targeting children on his platform.
His response should enrage every parent.
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"We think of it not necessarily just as a problem, but an opportunity as well," Baszucki said.⁷
An opportunity.
When pressed about a 2024 Hindenburg Research report that labeled Roblox a "pedophile hellscape for kids," Baszucki dismissed the firm and grew combative with the hosts.⁸
"Fun. Let's keep going down this," he replied sarcastically, then noted the firm "went out of business for some reason."⁹
He spent more time attacking his critics than addressing how predators were grooming children on his platform.
Baszucki later claimed Roblox uses "advanced safeguards" and artificial intelligence to monitor the platform — the same talking points the company has repeated for years while lawsuits pile up.¹⁰
But here's the problem with that defense.
Internal documents show Roblox reduced spending on trust and safety teams while reporting growth to investors, according to the Hindenburg report.¹¹
They cut corners on child protection to inflate their numbers for Wall Street.
The company claims users "cannot send or receive images via chat" on Roblox.¹²
That's technically true — but it's also deliberately misleading.
Predators use Roblox to identify and groom children, then move conversations to platforms like Discord or Snapchat where they can demand explicit photos.¹³
Roblox serves as the hunting ground where predators find their victims.
States Across America Are Taking Action
Florida isn't alone in going after Roblox.
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill filed a lawsuit in August calling Roblox "a hub for pedophiles."¹⁴
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman sued in October, accusing Roblox of "creating unsafe conditions for children."¹⁵
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit using the memorable phrase "pixel pedophiles" to describe what's happening on the platform.¹⁶
More than 20 families have filed federal lawsuits alleging Roblox enabled sexual exploitation of their children.¹⁷
In one case, a California family filed suit after their child was sexually assaulted by a man the child met through Roblox — a man who was sentenced to 15 years in prison.¹⁸
These aren't isolated incidents.
The pattern is clear: predators use Roblox to identify vulnerable children, build trust through the game, offer virtual currency as bribes, then escalate to demanding real photos and even physical meetings.
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Florida's criminal investigation — which continues alongside this civil lawsuit — uncovered that predators are openly trading tips in darknet forums about how to groom children on Roblox.¹⁹
They know Roblox's security is weak, and they're exploiting it systematically.
Roblox reported catching 23,000 incidents of potentially harmful content this year and reporting them to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.²⁰
That sounds impressive until you realize those are just the cases Roblox caught — and they're still letting predators operate with 32 million children on the platform every day.
The company also banned a YouTuber named "Schlep" who was conducting sting operations to expose predators on Roblox.²¹
Instead of thanking him for helping catch criminals, Roblox kicked him off the platform for "vigilante action."
Schlep claims his work led to multiple arrests of predators targeting children.²²
Roblox's response?
They silenced him and then threatened legal action.
The Florida lawsuit specifically mentions Schlep by name, with allegations that Roblox "tried to silence" him after he exposed the predator problem.²³
That tells you everything about the company's priorities.
They're more concerned about their reputation than protecting kids.
Uthmeier launched a criminal investigation into Roblox in October after receiving multiple reports of children being exposed to graphic content and predatory adults.²⁴
The subpoenas demanded documents showing how Roblox verifies ages, obtains parental consent, moderates content, and handles reports of abuse.
What investigators found was damning enough to file both criminal and civil cases.
"As a father of three little ones and as Florida's Attorney General, my number one priority is simple, to protect our kids," Uthmeier said. "Roblox broke the trust of parents and my office will make sure they answer for it."²⁵
¹ Frank Kopylov, "Florida Attorney General sues Roblox, accuses platform of misleading parents on child safety," Florida News, December 11, 2025.
² Drew Dixon, "James Uthmeier: Lawsuit filed against Roblox online gaming company over lack of oversight for children," Florida Politics, December 11, 2025.
³ CBS Miami, "Florida Attorney General Uthmeier sues Roblox, claiming 'serious failures' to protect children from sexual predators," December 11, 2025.
⁴ FOX 13 Tampa Bay, "Florida AG sues Roblox, claiming it misled parents and exposed kids to predators," December 12, 2025.
⁵ Frank Kopylov, "Florida Attorney General sues Roblox," Florida News, December 11, 2025.
⁶ Lawsuit Information Center, "Roblox Child Sex Abuse Lawsuit Settlements," October 2, 2025.
⁷ Futurism, "CEO of Roblox Says Child Predators on the Platform Are an 'Opportunity'," November 2025.
⁸ GameSpot, "Roblox CEO Responds To Child Predator Concerns Poorly," November 21, 2025.
⁹ Ibid.
¹⁰ CBS Miami, "Florida Attorney General Uthmeier sues Roblox," December 11, 2025.
¹¹ iGamingToday, "Roblox's Safety Reckoning: Why Its CEO's 'Brilliant Idea' Has Sparked a New Firestorm," November 2025.
¹² CBS Miami, "Florida Attorney General Uthmeier sues Roblox," December 11, 2025.
¹³ Alexandra Walsh, "Kentucky AG's Roblox Lawsuit Exposes Major Child Safety Gaps Online," Anapol Weiss, 2025.
¹⁴ The Hill, "Roblox faces lawsuits for child safety concerns; advocates push for legislation," December 12, 2025.
¹⁵ Ibid.
¹⁶ Office of the Attorney General of Texas, "Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Roblox for Putting Pixel Pedophiles and Profits Over the Safety of Texas Children," 2025.
¹⁷ Attorney Javier Marcos, "The Growing Legal Storm: Roblox Faces Mounting Litigation Over Child Safety and Predatory Behavior," August 8, 2025.
¹⁸ Daily Gazette, "Roblox sued by Southern California families alleging children met predators on its platform," December 11, 2025.
¹⁹ Dolman Law, "Roblox Sexual Abuse Lawsuit & Child Exploitation Claims," December 9, 2025.
²⁰ CBS News, "A family sued Roblox and Discord, alleging a sex offender communicated with their son on the platforms," October 14, 2025.
²¹ AInvest, "David Baszucki Faces Backlash as Roblox CEO Amid User Safety Controversy," August 15, 2025.
²² Ibid.
²³ Dexerto, "Florida AG sues Roblox over child safety amid criminal investigation," December 13, 2025.
²⁴ CBS Miami, "Florida Attorney General Uthmeier sues Roblox," December 11, 2025.
²⁵ The Floridian, "James Uthmeier Sues Roblox for Misrepresenting Platform Safety," December 12, 2025.
