DALLAS — A Texas man is suing Roblox, alleging the popular online gaming platform’s design and safety failures allowed a predator to groom, extort and sexually abuse him when he was a child.

In a complaint filed Wednesday in a Dallas federal court, the man — identified only as John Doe — accuses the San Mateo, California-based company of falsely promoting Roblox as a safe, educational space for children while knowingly allowing predators to use it as a “hunting ground.”

Roblox is a free-to-play online platform that hosts millions of user-created games. Players can use custom avatars, interact with other players within those games, and explore different game modes.

Doe, now an adult and former U.S. Marine, alleges in the lawsuit that he was 11 years old in 2007 when he met an adult man p

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