Haley Carnea (14:58)
They got disgusting. The last video, if you're listening and not watching, is a man dressed as a woman being arrested in a store for attempting to meet up with a child. And the videos make me sad to watch because I know a child was groomed and abused before we even got to this point where they are being addressed and confronted. But the silver lining is that these people are hopefully arrested and won't be able to abuse another child. But if you are a parent or a grandparent, you've probably heard of the website Roblox and that is a predator's mode of choice to get in contact with young victims. So we're going to go inside the growing crisis, the impending lawsuits, and why the company can't seem to get it under control. But first I want to talk to you about something that doesn't get enough attention and that is sleep. I bet you told yourself going into this year that you were going to fix your Sleep. But guess what? It March. That's me. 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Millions of kids are going to an online gaming platform called Roblox. And if you're a parent or a grandparent, you've probably heard of it. Your kids and grandkids statistically are on it. And it completely blew up during the COVID 19 pandemic. IPad kids were already choosing their screens over in person contact. But the pandemic really solidified that Right. The government was forcing people inside. Schools were closed, extracurricular activities were closed. No one could play sports, Gyms were closed. So what else was there to do but go find communities online? Well, it's not just community building and gaming for kids. There are adults on Roblox and like most adults who invade spaces for children, they don't usually have the best intentions. And there is a pedophile problem, as Bloomberg calls it, and it was exposed years ago. Years ago. Roblox's pedophile problem. This is an article from 2024. So let me just read you a little bit from this article. By 2024, United States police had arrested at least two dozen people accused of abducting or abusing victims they'd met or groomed using Roblox. One of the platform's most popular and lucrative personalities was exposed as a pedophile. Lots of his followers were kids and one of his followers happened to be his victim. So here it is, here's the story straight from the Department of Justice because thankfully this guy has been caught. But it says, New Jersey man sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after grooming minors online and transporting her across state lines via Uber for sex. This guy used a fake name on the platform and he started Talking with a 15 year old girl and they were talking at first about gaming and they were talking about social media and they connected on Instagram and Roblox and Discord and then they started talking and becoming friendly I guess you could say. And he actually started sending her gifts and sending certain, you know, gifts and items to her, her parents house. He actually gifted her a computer like a tablet and a drawing stand and have it delivered to her house. So I don't know how the parents weren't like, hey, you're 15 years old, what did you just order to the house and with what card and who sent this to you? I don't know. But anyway, the guy, this predator, intentionally led the girl to believe that he could connect her with some job opportunities in the future. He could, you know, because he was this huge influencer, if you will, this creator on Roblox. And he said, I can get you into this industry, this gaming industry. And then of course the conversation went from friendly and helpful to sexual. And this predator coerced and persuaded the girl into believing that they were in love and that her family was the problem. So then they started talking about how they were going to meet up and he sent her an Uber to travel from Indiana to New Jersey so that they could be together. And have sex. Indiana to New Jersey again. And I'm this whole episode is based on Roblox. But there are so many security concerns when it comes to Uber as well. Like you'd have to wonder if you're an Uber driver and you pick up a 15 year old girl and you're going to drop her off at some house in New Jersey, you're going to drive from Indiana to New Jersey and drop her off. Like you have to think about how this looks and you have to start asking some questions. But anyway, they he used Uber to hire a driver, drive the girl 700 miles to his house. And then the predator paid the driver 500 through cash app. So it wasn't even through the Uber app. He connected to the Uber driver but then paid him on the side another 500 in cash when the victim got back home to Indiana. Some people are really motivated by money in a, in a sick way. So when the girl got to the house, this predator sexually abused her on multiple occasions. And then he used Uber again to purchase the plan B contraceptive pill to keep this 15 year old girl from getting pregnant and then sent her on her way back into the Uber back to Indiana. But he actually kept her for a few days. So this is how the family knew that she was missing, that she was missing for days and they started searching for her desperately and the FBI was able to rescue her from this Roblox predator and he was arrested. But unfortunately this is not a standalone story. According to public data, the online gaming platform has flagged more than 13,000 attempts and to exploit minors in 2023 alone. Again, a lot of these metrics are from three years ago, three years ago, two years ago. Imagine if it was 13,000 then, how much is it now? And the platform simply cannot get it under control despite their efforts. I'm not going to say their best efforts, but despite their efforts, this is still happening. Here's another example. This time it was a 15 year old boy who fell into the trap of an online predator. And they said too, I was looking into this, I think it's ages 7 to 9 is a hot spot for these predators. And then also 13 to 15, like there's sort of this gap where they go for younger, they also go for older. This 13 to 15 year old age gap. People are very vulnerable in this age gap as well. Like these two examples are 15 year olds. Again, these are high schoolers. But a lot of them are insecure, a lot of them are going through mental health crises. A lot of them are you know, so addicted and attached to their phones. I mean this is their life. And they, they get duped by these things. They're just kids. And this example, boy missing for two weeks reportedly traveled to NYC to see someone he met on Roblox. And again this is from just weeks ago, a week and a half ago. And he's still missing. He's still missing. His name is Thomas Medlin. He was last seen on January 9th and he's from St. James on Long Island. And police say he went to a school in Stony Brook and then right after school let out he went to run and catch the train into Manhattan. And he was last seen at Grand Central Station two hours later. It was around 5:30pm and police has have since tracked his location. He had been to lower Manhattan, he had been to Brooklyn and they still cannot find him. His family hasn't heard from the teenager since he left school that day. Where is he now? They don't know. His parents believe that he was communicating with someone on Roblox and he went to go meet them. We can only hope that he is still alive. But I can't imagine what is happening to him in the interim if he is. Because if an adult wants to speak and hang out with an unrelated child, they very likely have bad intentions. This next situation happened a week and a half ago. This is a case in Louisiana. A 24 year old man pressured a girl to harm herself and also send explicit photos back and forth. Coerced the victim into cutting herself and encouraged her to take her own life on two occasions. And then while this guy was arrested, he admitted to having this kind of relationship with other children. So he's facing two counts of criminal assistance to suicide, 15 counts of pornography involving a juvenile and 261 counts of indecent behavior with a juvenile. And he's. His bail is set for 750,000. So Roblox has said that they have implemented parental controls and certain age restrictions just this year in 2026 that allow for kids to only talk to strangers in their age range and that the age range, age ranges are around three to four years. But then again, this story happened just a week and a half ago. The other 15 year old boy, this was last month. So clearly whatever Roblox has implemented isn't predator proof. And aside from chatting with strangers, kids can be exposed to other kinds of sexual content. The guys were explaining to me that this rope, because I don't know much about Roblox, I'm just, I'm looking into this and I'm horrified because I care about children and their safety and I care about exposing pedophiles and holding them accountable. But I don't know anything about Roblox. I've never, I mean, I've heard of it, but I'm not a kid myself. I don't have younger siblings. Like, I'm just out of the loop on this stuff. And the guys are explaining that they're. It's kind of like a virtual reality type gaming world and you can be a creator in this world and you can create your own video games in this video game world. It's kind of meta, but you can sort of create them. If you're familiar with Sims, you can like make your little avatars do certain things. And adults are on this platform and they're making their avatars have threesomes and carry out other sexual acts. And this is the problem. I mean, we could play this so you guys can see it. I, I'm giving you a visual warning here. It's blurred. But this is something that if you are a child and you are on this app, you might see this kind of behavior. It's disgusting. So it's not just pedophilia and sexual abuse material. That's a play there. Companies use Roblox. They want to get to your kids and, and make them consumers. And kids are using real money to buy clothes and other items in the marketplace within the Roblox app. Again, if you are a parent, if you have younger siblings, if you are a grandparent, Christmas rolls around, Hanukkah rolls around, Easter rolls around, birthdays roll around. And kids might ask you for Robux money, real money gift cards that they can use on this app to buy certain things for their avatars and what have you. And parents can set spending limits on the app. But companies are seeing dollar signs here and they're tapping into this very young market. Then the Salvation army has also launched a thrift shop on the platform so you can thrift clothes from your favorite creators. This is literally what they say on the like. Salvation army posted a tick tock explaining how these kids can basically thrift clothes clothes using their Roblox, their app on Roblox and it says we're live on Roblox Shop, thrifted fits from your favorite creators and more. So call me absolutely crazy, but kids don't need to be thrifting clothes from adults they meet online. Kids don't need to be buying anything with real money without their parents knowing what they're buying, considering it's Their parents money. You can see this. It literally, it's like they create a real Salvation army type store in this virtual world and you can take your avatar into the store and you can shop and again, prompts you to use real money. And the company is making money off of this. It's crazy. They're turning little kids into little consumers. Again, it's really not their money. Kids don't have credit cards. It's not like they take lemonade stand money. So kids are being groomed into, you know, sex acts or being exposed to sex acts and being consumers now and using their parents money buying that they don't need. And when your kids aren't being groomed into all this stuff, they're also being groomed into being future liberal voters. They are role playing politics. When we see something play out on the world stage or in our country and it's all over the headlines and in the news, then people on Roblox creators on Roadblocks recreate these events in the platform. So we all saw what happened in Minneapolis over the last few months with Alex Preddy and Renee Goode being shot and all the protesters agitizing, agitating ICE agents and things like that in the streets. And then on Roblox, all of these ICE raids are taking place in video game form. Watch this POV. ICE is now going door to door in Roblox 2. And it's little fake SWAT teams and there's an absolute unit that's the biggest ICE agent I've ever seen in my life. I missed that on the clipping. I. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah. So these kids, I guess, or maybe they're adults again. There are adults on this app for whatever reason. And I know people are going to come for me. Every time I say that adults shouldn't be playing video games, there's some guy that gets mad at me for saying that, oh, this is how I relax. This is my hobby. Whatever, it's. It ain't for me. But if, if it's for you, fine. But I just don't think that adults need to be playing these things. I think you need adult hobbies. There are certain things that you grow out of or you're supposed to grow out of. And if you're playing video games, I think that it's tapping into some kind of childhood. And I, I guess you can relive this kind of stuff, but for me, I just think it's weird. I think it's weird. You know, I used to play with Barbie dolls and now I don't and it's just something that you grow out of. And this is how I feel about adults recreating ice raids in Roblox. I think it's weird. I think it's really weird. And then they're not only recreating ice rays, but they're also encouraging young people on this app to get involved in Palestinian protests. Watch this. This is a guy, and I turned the sound off because he's not speaking English. So you don't. You're not going to know what he's saying, but he's encouraging. And you can see in this video, there are all these Roblox players with Palestinian flags, and they're getting together for somewhat of a protest, and they can kind of recreate this thing that's happening in real life on the app. And again, like, maybe you're a kid and you see this happening on Roblox and you think, oh, well, let me just find out if there's one happening in my area or on my college campus or something like that. Like, this is how they groom little kids to be activists, essentially. And then this is the worst example that I've seen yet. And obviously, I'm not saying that this is worse than pedophiles actually attacking children in real life, but in terms of what people are recreating on the app, this is absolutely the most disturbing. So on the Sean Ryan show, he had on these guys that were exposing what is happening happening on this app, Roblox, and it turns out that kids are actually. They're not just recreating protests. They're not just recreating ice raids. They are creating school shootings. So they basically recreate the inside of Sandy Hook Elementary School, and you can essentially play out a school shooting. Watch. This is awful.
