SAN MATEO, California (Gray News) – A family in California is suing Roblox and Discord after they say the online platforms failed to protect their 10-year-old daughter from being abducted by a predator.

The lawsuit was filed by law firm Anapol Weiss last week.

According to a news release , this is the seventh such lawsuit brought by the law firm against Roblox, which the firm says underscores “a pattern of systemic negligence and failure to protect child users.”

According to the lawsuit, 27-year-old Matthew Macatuno Naval posed as a peer to contact the girl through Roblox. Then, the conversation moved to Discord, where the child was allegedly “groomed and manipulated” into sharing her home address.

The lawsuit says that on April 13, Naval abducted the girl from her home in Taft, Cali

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