• by Wendy Davis , December 12, 2025

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has sued gaming platform Roblox for allegedly facilitating sex abuse of minors.

"Roblox aggressively markets to young children, but fails to protect them from sexual predators," Uthmeier said in a video posted to X, formerly Twitter.

Uthmeier's complaint, filed Thursday in Baker County, calls Roblox "the new hunting ground for sexual predators."

He alleges that Roblox "refused to implement readily available child-safety features," such as verifying users' ages and restricting adults' ability to contact children.

"Roblox chose to allow users to create accounts without providing so much as their names or email addresses, a policy that not only enables even known predators to create accounts, but also allows predators to create multiple anonymous Roblox accounts," the complaint alleges.

The complaint includes claims that Roblox violates Florida consumer protection laws by representing its platform as safe for children.

The attorney general's complaint also characterizes Roblox as a "hypersexual virtual world," alleging that the platform "is replete with games based on real-life crimes against children -- games recreating the notorious Diddy “freak-off” parties, games set on Jeffrey Epstein’s private island -- that are fully available for young children to play."

Uthmeier alleges that games "premised on sexual exploitation" normalize predatory behavior, "blurring the lines of what is acceptable in real life," and leaving children "more susceptible to grooming."

The complaint cites outside reports about alleged sex abuse on the platform, including the 2024 Bloomberg piece "Roblox's Pedophilia Problem," which reported that since 2018, police in the United States arrested at least 24 people "accused of abducting or abusing victims they'd met or groomed using Roblox."

Roblox currently faces similar lawsuits by attorneys general in Kentucky, Louisiana and Texas, and also potential class-action suits on behalf of children.

A Roblox spokesperson says the Florida attorney general's lawsuit "fundamentally misrepresents" how the platform works.

"We have advanced safeguards that monitor our platform for harmful content and communications," the spokesperson said. "We are also rolling out additional measures to further limit who users can chat with."

The company said in September that it will soon use age-estimation technology on all users who access its "on-platform communication features."

"Using a combination of facial age estimation technology, ID age verification, and verified parental consent, this process will provide a more accurate measure of a user's age than simply relying on what someone types in when they create an account," the company said. "With this information, we’ll also launch new systems designed to limit communication between adults and minors unless they know each other in the real world."