Roblox Wants Deluge of Child Sex Abuse Cases Moved Out of Court

Myra’s daughter got a Roblox account when she was 8. For more than a decade, the immersive gaming platform had advertised itself as a safe place for kids to play, and during the pandemic, there weren’t many other options.

Myra herself had grown up trawling the chatrooms on AOL Instant Messenger, but knew it was a different internet era and decided to be more stringent with her daughter’s safety. She reviewed Roblox’s website and checked various “parental control” boxes, according to a September lawsuit she filed in California.

One day Myra got a call from her daughter’s school. An administrator ...