SAN DIEGO — "Nate" offered friendship in a sometimes unfriendly world.

The online game, Roblox, provided a safe reality in a sometimes cruel and unsafe world for a middle school boy in Santee, CA.

But "Nate" was not a friend to 12-year-old Ethan Dallas.

Despite "Nate" telling Dallas that he was the same age, "Nate" was a 37-year-old sexual predator who used his home in western Florida to torment, blackmail, and extort Ethan and other young players on one of the world's most popular online gaming platforms.

In April 2024, more than four months after the then-15-year-old Ethan told his mother that he had been forced to send nude and explicit photos of himself in exchange for anonymity, Ethan killed himself.

Now, Ethan's mother, Rebecca Dallas, wants justice for her son and seeks to prev

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