"I’m stunned this happened to my child," she said. The mother filed a report with her local sheriff’s department and handed over the family iPad to investigators. “ has denied there were any pictures of him naked.
"He told my son he was a handsome boy," the mother said, adding she knows her son sent pictures of himself but she doesn’t know if nudity was involved.
The conversations quickly escalated with questions about the boy’s school, his home address – and photos. "He would continue to find in the same games and they became play partners." "At the beginning portrayed himself like a child," said the mother, who requested anonymity because she fears her son could be in danger. The Louisiana boy met the alleged predator on Roblox, which boasts nearly 50 million users a month who “create adventures, play games, role-play and learn with friends.” It also allows players to chat with each other, which is how the boy was allegedly targeted. The outraged mother of an 8-year-old boy is sounding the alarm about a popular online gaming site for kids, telling NBC 4 New York's I-Team she believes her son was "groomed" by a sexual predator who was lurking in the virtual adventure world.
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