Nebraska's attorney general has filed a sweeping child-safety lawsuit against Roblox Corporation, calling the gaming giant 'no bigger online playground for predators in the entire world,' a broadside that adds Nebraska to a growing coalition of states now pressing the company in court.
Attorney General Mike Hilgers announced the complaint on 4 March 2026, filing it in Adams District Court in Hastings. The suit alleges that Roblox has knowingly built and maintained a platform that exposes tens of millions of children to sexual predators, violent content, and illegal activity, all while assuring parents the service is safe.
It asks the court to declare Roblox in violation of the Nebraska Consumer Protection Act and the Nebraska Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act, and it seeks civil penalties, punitive damages, and injunctive relief, including mandatory age and identity verification.
The core of Hilgers' complaint,filed publicly on the Nebraska Attorney General's website, is that Roblox markets itself to children as young as six while refusing to implement the most basic safeguards. According to the complaint, sexual predators have 'repeatedly used Roblox to groom and eventually abduct and sexually assault children.'
The suit goes on to state: 'For years, Roblox has known that it has a paedophile problem.' It accuses the company of deliberately targeting pre-teenage users as a commercial strategy, noting that Roblox once described itself as the '#1 gaming site for kids and teens.'
What we have seen leading up to our Roblox lawsuit is horrifying.I have four young kids, and I encourage every parent to read our complaint / research how this service is so dangerous to kids.Instead of a walled garden, this service is instead a place where predators all…
Hilgers told reporters at a press conference that the platform allows adults to masquerade as younger users, enabling grooming that can move from in-game chats to real-world abuse. He pointed to user-generated game modes accessible to children that included avirtual recreation of Jeffrey Epstein's island, simulations of school shootings, KKK rallies, and virtual strip clubs. He also argued that even Roblox's own parental controls are largely cosmetic, easily bypassed and, the lawsuit alleges, incapable of addressing predatory behaviour at scale.
'Parents deserve the truth,' Hilgers said in astatement released by his office. 'Roblox has built a multibillion-dollar business on the trust of families, all while creating a playground for predators and exposing children to graphic and dangerous content.'
Nebraska's filing is far from an isolated action. Thestates of Louisiana, Kentucky, Texas, Florida, Iowa, and Tennessee have all sued Robloxon child-safety grounds. Los Angeles County filed its own lawsuit in February 2026.
Florida's attorney general separately opened a criminal investigationinto the company, and the attorneys general of Oklahoma and South Carolina have signalled they may file their own actions. TheJPML transfer order, dated 12 December 2025, noted that by the time of consolidation, the federal docket already comprised 'nearly 80 actions and potential tag-along actions pending across eighteen districts before dozens of judges, with at least fifteen different plaintiffs' firms involved.'
Source: International Business Times UK
