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A man who held a 15-year-old girl "hostage" by threatening to leak naked photographs of her, having met the child through an online game, has been jailed for two and a half years. The now 24-year-old ...

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An Upstate New York has been arrested after allegedly sending sexually explicit texts to a minor. Vincent Steiner, of Chili, N.Y., is accused of exchanging messages with a 12-year-old girl he met on ...

The titles above are just two examples of the thousands of mini-games created by Roblox users. According to investigators, users create virtual environments that other users can join, with some using ...

JOHNSON COUNTY, Ind. — A family in Johnson County has filed a lawsuit against the popular online gaming platform Roblox, claiming the site isn’t protecting children from predators. The lawsuit, filed ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A new lawsuit filed against Roblox and Discord accuses the online gaming companies of causing a 13-year-old Kentucky girl’s death. The wrongful death lawsuit filed by law firm ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Roblox Corp. and Discord Inc. are facing a new lawsuit in federal court accusing the tech giants of enabling the sexual exploitation of a Charleston County girl who was 11 ...

A Wisconsin family is suing Roblox after they say their 5-year-old daughter was sexually targeted by adult users on the popular free video game app. The lawsuit alleges the girl was sexually exploited ...

Three Alabama families have filed separate lawsuits against Roblox, claiming that adults used the popular online gaming platform to groom their children. Two of the lawsuits, filed by Dale County ...

Two online gaming apps have been sued by a New Jersey mother and her young daughter after the girl was allegedly targeted by a man pretending to be a boy and convincing her to send sexually explicit ...

A 12-year-old New York girl is among the alleged sexual exploitation victims in a series of lawsuits against Roblox that claim the popular video game platform is failing to protect its users from ...