Attorney Notice: This resource is designed for legal professionals investigating or litigating claims against Roblox Corporation related to child safety failures, grooming, sexual exploitation, and negligent platform design.
Multiple state attorneys general, individual plaintiffs, and class action litigants are currently pursuing claims against Roblox. This network connects attorneys handling these cases to share resources, coordinate strategy, and facilitate client referrals.
Practice Areas: Product Liability | Mass Torts | Consumer Fraud | Child Sexual Abuse | Personal Injury | Wrongful Death
Litigation Overview
Roblox Corporation operates one of the world's largest online gaming platforms with over 70 million daily active users, the majority of whom are minors. Despite promoting itself as a safe, family-friendly platform, mounting evidence demonstrates systematic failures in content moderation, age verification, and predator prevention.
Primary Legal Issues
- Inadequate Age Verification: Platform fails to effectively verify user ages, allowing adults unrestricted access to child-populated spaces
- Negligent Platform Design: Chat features, private messaging, and avatar systems facilitate grooming and inappropriate contact
- Failed Content Moderation: Sexually explicit, violent, and inappropriate content remains accessible despite reports
- Misleading Safety Representations: Marketing materials and parental controls create false sense of security
- Delayed Response to Reports: Documented pattern of ignoring or inadequately responding to abuse reports
- Financial Exploitation: Platform enables predators to manipulate children into spending money or sharing financial information
Practice Tip:
Review Roblox's Terms of Service carefully. The arbitration clause may be challengeable for claims involving minors, particularly when the harm relates to violations of public policy or consumer protection statutes that allow for civil penalties.
Active Litigation & Precedents
State Attorney General Actions (2025)
| State | Filing Date | Key Allegations | Relief Sought |
|---|
| Louisiana | August 2025 | Failure to implement effective safety measures; deceptive marketing regarding safety features; enabling predator access | Civil penalties, restitution, injunctive relief, compliance monitoring |
| Kentucky | October 2025 | Consumer Protection Act violations; insufficient guardrails; exposure to predators and explicit content | Up to $2,000 per violation; injunctive relief; platform safety reforms |
Individual & Class Actions
Wrongful Death Lawsuit (September 2025)
Case Theory: Family alleges 15-year-old son was groomed on Roblox/Discord before dying by suicide in April 2024.
Claims:
- Wrongful death
- Fraudulent concealment and misrepresentation
- Negligent misrepresentation
- Strict liability for dangerous product
Key Argument: Platforms failed to implement reasonable user screening protocols that would have prevented the harm.
Sexual Exploitation Class Action (2023)
Case Theory: Platform design enables predatory conduct through inadequate monitoring and verification systems.
Lead Plaintiff: 13-year-old minor victim
Class Definition: Minors who experienced sexual exploitation facilitated through Roblox platform features
Content Deletion Settlement ($10 Million - 2025)
Settlement Amount: $10,000,000
Claims: Excessive in-app purchases by minors; content deletion without refund
Class Period: Accounts prior to May 11, 2023
Significance: Establishes precedent for consumer fraud claims related to minor exploitation
COPPA Violations Class Action
Case Theory: Roblox harvests extensive user data from minors without proper parental consent in violation of Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
Potential Statutory Damages: Up to $50,120 per violation (current COPPA penalty)
Industry Report - Evidentiary Value
Hindenburg Research published detailed investigation (2024) documenting what they termed a "pedophile hellscape for kids." The report includes:
- In-game research documenting exposure to pornography and grooming
- Analysis of moderation failures
- Pattern evidence of platform-wide safety inadequacies
Use in Discovery: Can support requests for internal safety audits, moderation records, and corporate knowledge of risks.
Viable Legal Theories & Claims
Negligence
Duty: Roblox owes duty of reasonable care to minor users
Breach: Failed to implement adequate safety measures despite known risks
Causation: Platform design and failures directly enabled harm
Damages: Emotional distress, therapy costs, medical expenses
Product Liability
Design Defect: Platform designed with features that foreseeably enable predatory conduct
Failure to Warn: Inadequate warnings about risks to minors
Marketing Defect: Misrepresents safety features and protections
Consumer Fraud
Deceptive Practices: False representations about platform safety
Unfair Practices: Prioritizing profit over child safety
State UDAP: Violations of state consumer protection statutes
Treble Damages: Many states allow 2x-3x damages for willful violations
Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress
Zone of Danger: Child users placed in foreseeable risk of harm
Severe Distress: PTSD, anxiety, depression, behavioral changes
Reasonable Foreseeability: Company knew or should have known of risks
Wrongful Death
Applicable When: Grooming, exploitation, or abuse leads to suicide or other fatal outcome
Statutory Beneficiaries: Parents, guardians, estate
Damages: Loss of companionship, funeral expenses, punitive damages
Fraudulent/Negligent Misrepresentation
Material Misrepresentation: Safety features, moderation capabilities
Scienter: Company knew representations were false
Reliance: Parents relied on safety claims when allowing child access
Section 230 Considerations
Communications Decency Act Section 230 provides broad immunity for online platforms as publishers of third-party content. However, several exceptions apply:
Section 230 Exceptions for Roblox Cases
- Product Design Claims: Immunity doesn't extend to claims challenging the platform's design features (chat systems, private messaging, avatar interactions)
- First-Party Content: Roblox's own representations about safety are not protected
- Federal Criminal Law: 230(e)(1) exception for federal criminal statutes (child exploitation laws)
- Intellectual Property: 230(e)(2) exception
- State Law Exception: Argue claims fall under state law enforcement authority (230(e)(3))
Strategic Approach: Frame claims around platform design, failure to implement safety features, and affirmative misrepresentations rather than failure to remove third-party content.
Statute of Limitations Issues
Tolling for Minors: Most jurisdictions toll statutes of limitation for minors until age of majority. Review state-specific rules.
Discovery Rule: SOL may not begin until parents discover or reasonably should have discovered the harm.
Continuing Tort: Ongoing exposure to dangerous platform conditions may constitute continuing tort.
Evidence Collection & Preservation
Critical Evidence Categories
Platform Activity Records
Medical & Psychological Records
- Therapy/counseling records showing onset of symptoms
- Psychiatric evaluations and diagnoses (PTSD, anxiety, depression)
- Medical records documenting physical manifestations of distress
- School records showing behavioral changes
Device Forensics
Practice Tip:
Engage digital forensics expert immediately. Device data can be overwritten or lost. Preserve:
- Complete device images (phones, tablets, computers)
- Browser history and cached data
- Application data and temporary files
- Deleted message recovery
Discovery Targets Against Roblox
- Internal Communications: Emails, Slack messages regarding safety concerns, known risks, platform vulnerabilities
- Safety Audits: Internal and third-party safety assessments
- Moderation Records: Volume of reports received; response times; removal rates; repeat offender tracking
- Age Verification Systems: Technical specifications and effectiveness data
- Financial Data: Revenue from minor users; cost-benefit analyses regarding safety investments
- Prior Incidents: Database of similar complaints and incidents
- Expert Consultations: Any expert advice received regarding child safety
- Marketing Materials: All representations made to parents about safety features
Expert Witnesses
Essential Expert Categories:
- Platform Safety Experts: Engineers or consultants specializing in online platform design and child safety
- Child Psychology: Experts on grooming, trauma, developmental psychology
- Digital Forensics: Recovery and authentication of digital evidence
- Consumer Behavior: Marketing and consumer protection experts regarding deceptive practices
- Damages: Life care planners, economists for future therapy costs and diminished earning capacity
Damages Framework
Economic Damages
| Category | Components | Documentation Required |
|---|
| Medical Expenses | Therapy, counseling, psychiatric treatment, medication, hospitalization | Bills, EOBs, treatment records, prescriptions |
| Future Medical | Life care plan for ongoing treatment | Expert life care planner, treating physician testimony |
| Educational | Special education, tutoring, lost academic opportunity | School records, educational expert |
| Lost Earning Capacity | Diminished future earnings due to psychological harm | Vocational expert, economist |
Non-Economic Damages
- Pain and Suffering: Ongoing emotional distress, anxiety, fear
- Loss of Enjoyment of Life: Inability to participate in normal childhood activities
- Emotional Distress: PTSD, depression, behavioral changes
- Loss of Consortium: (For parent claims) Damage to parent-child relationship
Punitive Damages
Available in many jurisdictions when defendant's conduct demonstrates:
- Willful and wanton disregard for child safety
- Conscious indifference to known risks
- Fraud or intentional misrepresentation
- Profit motive prioritized over foreseeable harm
Punitive Damages Strategy
Discovery should target evidence of corporate knowledge:
- Prior similar incidents known to company
- Internal risk assessments warning of dangers
- Cost-benefit analyses showing safety measures declined for profit reasons
- Executive compensation tied to user growth metrics
- Pattern of ignoring expert safety recommendations
Statutory Damages & Civil Penalties
- COPPA Violations: Up to $50,120 per violation
- State Consumer Protection: $1,000-$10,000 per violation (varies by state)
- Treble Damages: Available under many state UDAP statutes for willful violations
Client Intake & Case Evaluation
Initial Screening Questions
- Child's age at time of incident(s)? (Verify minor status and SOL issues)
- Nature of harm experienced:
- Grooming/inappropriate contact?
- Exposure to explicit content?
- Financial exploitation?
- Cyberbullying/harassment?
- Real-world meeting or contact attempted?
- Timeline: When did activity occur? When discovered by parents?
- Documentation: What evidence has been preserved?
- Reports filed: Was Roblox notified? Law enforcement involved?
- Current impact: Is child receiving treatment? Diagnosed conditions?
- Parental controls: What safety settings were enabled?
- Platform representations: What safety claims did parents rely on?
Red Flags for Strong Cases
High-Value Case Indicators:
- Clear documentation of grooming progression
- Multiple reports to Roblox that were ignored or inadequately addressed
- Severe psychological harm requiring ongoing treatment
- Parents relied on specific safety representations in marketing
- Minor was using parental controls that failed to prevent harm
- Evidence of Roblox's knowledge of similar prior incidents
- Clear causation between platform features and harm
Client Instructions - Evidence Preservation
Immediately instruct clients to:
- Stop using device(s) involved - do not delete anything
- Screenshot all accessible conversations and content
- Request account data from Roblox (GDPR/CCPA request)
- Preserve all communications with Roblox support
- Document child's symptoms and treatment chronologically
- Avoid discussing case details on social media
Retainer Considerations
- Contingency Fee: 33%-40% typical for these cases
- Cost Advancement: Significant expert costs; ensure retainer addresses cost responsibility
- Arbitration Clause: Address enforceability challenges and potential bifurcation
- Class Action: Consider whether individual or class representation is appropriate
Case Referral Network
We are coordinating with experienced trial attorneys nationwide who are actively litigating Roblox child safety cases. Our network facilitates:
- •Client Referrals: Connect qualified clients with attorneys handling these cases
- •Co-Counsel Arrangements: Associate with lead counsel on complex cases
- •Discovery Sharing: Coordinate discovery efforts and share relevant documents
- •Expert Witness Resources: Access to vetted experts in platform safety, child psychology, and forensics
- •Strategy Coordination: Collaborate on legal theories and best practices
- •MDL Preparation: Position for potential multidistrict litigation consolidation
All referrals handled confidentially in compliance with state bar rules and client confidentiality requirements.
Additional Resources
For Clients/Families
- National Center for Missing & Exploited Children: CyberTipline.org
- RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network): RAINN.org
- Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force
- Darkness to Light: Child Sexual Abuse Prevention
Legal Research
- National Crime Victim Law Institute (NCVLI)
- Product Liability Advisory Council
- AAJ (American Association for Justice) - Product Liability Section
- State-specific trial lawyer associations
Expert Witness Directories
- Platform Safety & Tech Design Experts
- Child Psychology & Trauma Specialists
- Digital Forensics Professionals
- Economic & Life Care Planning Experts
Contact network coordinator for detailed expert referrals with experience in similar cases.