A Somerset County mother is suing the makers of three of the most popular online games claiming that they knowingly created addictive products that harmed 9-year-old son.

Casey Henderson filed the lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Maine on behalf of her son against Roblox, Epic Games, Microsoft and Mojang.

Epic Games makes Fortnite. Mojang developed Minecraft and sold it to Microsoft.

The lawsuit accuses the gamemakers of ignoring “known risks” to minors from excessive use of their products in favor of “programming that exacerbated these risks to increase their profits.”

Henderson alleges in the lawsuit that her son started playing the defendants’ video games at age 4 and “continues to use video games at an increasing, uncontrollable, compulsive, and/or addictive pace.”

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