Roblox Sex Abuse Lawsuits

If you, or your child, became the victim of sexual abuse through the Roblox gaming platform, you may be able to get financial compensation by filing a civil lawsuit against the video game company. A growing number of victims are filing Roblox sex abuse lawsuits across the country.

On this page, we will look at the legal allegations being made in these cases and discuss their potential settlement value.

Our national sex abuse lawyers are currently accepting Roblox sexual abuse cases. Contact us today at 888-322-3010 on contact us online for a free consultation.  

About Roblox

Roblox is an online gaming platform/app that is mostly used by adolescent age gamers. Roblox’s popularity among children exploded during the pandemic when the app was flooded with millions of new users as kids were confined to their homes and glued to their devices.

By September 2020, roughly 30 million people, more than half of them under 13, were on Roblox daily, making it the world’s biggest recreational zone for kids. That growth has continued unabated. In Roblox’s 2023 Annual Report, the company reported an average of 68.5 million daily active users, with 21% under 9 years of age; 21% from 9- 12 years of age; 16% from 13-16 years of age; and 41% over 17 years of age.

Today, Roblox is the most downloaded online game globally, and the average user spends 139 minutes a day on the app.

Children Can Access and Play Without Restrictions

Individuals who wish to play Roblox must create an account. Users must provide only a birthdate, username, and password. Users of any age can create an account. There is no age minimum.

Although Roblox states that children must have parental permission before signing up for an account, nothing prevents them from creating their own accounts and playing on Roblox. Roblox does nothing to confirm or document that parental permission has been given, no matter how young a child is. Nor does Roblox require a parent to confirm the age given when a child signs up to use Roblox.

Until November 2024, Roblox configured its app to default to settings that allowed adults to easily communicate with children. Adult strangers could “friend” and chat with a child of any age via direct (i.e., private) message. Further, even without being “friends,” adults could also chat with a child of any age within a Roblox experience through direct messages.

There is also nothing that prohibits adults from entering fake birthdays and posing as children in their attempts to friend or otherwise communicate with young gamers.

What Are The Roblox Sex Abuse Lawsuits About?

The Roblox sexual abuse lawsuits allege that Roblox Corporation negligently failed to adopt proper safeguards to protect underage gamers from being accessed and targeted by sexual predators.

The issues surrounding Roblox are not just about isolated predators. They are about a platform built in ways that made abuse easy to commit and difficult to detect. The lawsuits describe systemic design flaws and a pattern of inaction despite repeated warnings. Roblox grew rapidly by encouraging user interaction, but it failed to create guardrails that would protect the children who made up a large portion of its user base.

Roblox also integrated with Discord. It was one of the few external sites that users were allowed to link from inside the platform. Children could post their Discord usernames on their Roblox profiles. Many did. This created a direct and largely unmonitored path from a gaming environment to private conversations. The complaint makes it clear that predators knew this. They used the connection to move conversations off-platform, where Roblox’s safety tools did not apply.

In some cases, predators used Robux—the in-game currency—to manipulate children. They offered Robux in exchange for explicit images. They threatened to take back rewards or to share private content unless the child sent more. Roblox profited from these transactions. The platform took a percentage of every Roblox exchange. This meant it earned revenue from interactions that were part of a broader pattern of exploitation.

The company was warned. Developers and insiders spoke out. Some said publicly they would not let their own children use the platform. Moderators said they were overwhelmed by the volume of abuse reports, which is unbelievable. Yet Roblox had far fewer safety staff compared to other large platforms, even though its audience skewed younger. Despite these warnings, the company made few significant changes.

Perhaps the most depressing detail about these lawsuits is how Roblox used its own records of abuse. The company collected and stored data from thousands of incidents involving child exploitation. That data was used to train its moderation systems. It was not theoretical.

It was real harm involving real children. If you are looking for a punitive damages hook in this cases, this is it.

Legal Claims In Roblox Abuse Lawsuits

The Roblox abuse lawsuits accuse the company of a pattern of significant negligence. Specifically, the lawsuits allege that the developers of the game were fully aware that their platform could be utilized for exploitation and grooming of vulnerable children, but did nothing to prevent this or to safeguard children.  The legal claims being asserted in the Roblox lawsuits include:

• Negligence: Standard negligence claims are the primary legal theory under which most plaintiffs are seeking to hold Roblox liable. These claims are based on the allegation that Roblox had a duty to take reasonable measures to protect children on its platform, and that in negligently breached that duty by failing to implement various safety measures.
• Product Liability: The product liability claims against Roblox are very similar to the negligence claims. These claims allege that Roblox was defective in its design because it allowed for predatory actions.
• Consumer Fraud: The consumer fraud claims allege that Roblox fraudulently misrepresented to consumers (i.e., parents) that its gaming platform was safe for
  children when it actually was not.

Specific Issues With Roblox

The Roblox sexual abuse lawsuits have identified a number of specific design flaws in the gaming platform that are putting children at risk. Below is a summary of these specific features.

No Game Chat Moderation:

Roblox has built-in chat features that let users talk to each other during games or send private messages. These tools are a big part of what makes the platform social and fun—but they’ve also opened the door for grooming to happen on a wide scale.

Predators take advantage of these chat features to reach out to kids, often pretending to be fellow players or using friendly-looking avatars. Once they build trust, they try to push things into uncomfortable or inappropriate territory using manipulation and coercion. Even though child safety experts have raised the alarm and families have reported real harm, Roblox hasn’t done enough to put serious limits on these kinds of interactions—especially for younger users.

Failure to Address Harmful Content

Even when people report harmful content, Roblox often takes too long to respond—or doesn’t respond at all. Usually, the platform only steps in after the damage is already done. Some games, chat rooms, and user accounts that break the rules stay online for weeks, even after being reported many times.

There have been several cases where predators were reported to Roblox or were already known to moderators, but they weren’t removed quickly. In one case, a user who had already hurt kids was left on the platform long enough to harm another victim. The people suing say this isn’t just a mistake—it’s a sign that Roblox cares more about growing fast and keeping users active than keeping them safe.

No Age Verification

One of the most basic things any platform for kids should have is a way to reliably check users’ ages. But Roblox hasn’t even gotten that right. The company says it limits certain features for users under 13, but those limits don’t mean much when all it takes to get around them is entering a fake birthday. That’s not real protection.

This is an easy-to-abuse flaw that lets kids access stuff meant for older users—like chat features, sexual content, and links to outside websites—just by lying about their age. Roblox had plenty of chances to use better tools or set real limits, but instead they did nothing.

November 2024 Safety Update

In response to growing concerns and external pressure, Roblox finally implemented some new child safety features. The new features include: account management tools that allow parents to remotely manage time on the game, restrictions on access to messaging for children under 13, mandatory content ratings for games, and more.

Unfortunately, these measures were viewed as too little and too late for many.

Potential Settlement Value of Roblox Abuse Lawsuits

This litigation is still in the very early stages, so at this point we can only offer speculation about the potential settlement value of successful Roblox cases. Although a growing number of these cases have been filed in various states, there is no indication at this point that these lawsuits will be consolidated into a “class action” MDL, or that there could potentially be some type of global settlement. So far, there have not even been any reported settlements.

Despite these limitations, we can give a general estimate of the potential settlement value of Roblox abuse cases based on settlement payouts in other cases involving similar injuries and claims.

As a general rule, lawsuits involving sexual abuse of minors have a high potential settlement value. Why? Juries get emotional about child sexual abuse and often react with massive, punitive verdicts. This makes going to trial in one of these cases very risky for any defendant. This risk is even greater, however, when the defendant is a big corporation like Roblox.

Based on these data points, and our general experience with settlements in sex abuse cases, we think that a successful Roblox sex abuse lawsuit could have a potential settlement value of $1,000,000 to $3,000,000. The potential settlement value of each individual case will depend on the specific circumstances. In Roblox cases the most significant factors impacting value will be: (1) the nature and severity of the abuse, and (2) Roblox’s level of negligence.

What do we mean when we say “Roblox’s level of negligence”? What this means is how strong are the negligence claims against Roblox in the specific case. For example, if the case involves a sexual predator who had been reported to Roblox numerous times in the past for inappropriate conduct, and then uses the Roblox platform to find a victim, that would be a very strong negligence claim against Roblox. In that case there is a clear and direct causal link between Roblox’s negligence (i.e., failing to ban the predatory after complaints) and the injuries suffered by the victim.

Contact Us About Roblox Sex Abuse Lawsuits

We are currently investigating and taking Roblox sexual abuse and exploitation lawsuits across the country. Contact us today at 888-322-3010 on contact us online for a free consultation.