cormack12
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Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-roblox-pedophile-problem
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Doc claimed to be one of the highest-paid developers on Roblox, boasting about it to his community on the chat app Discord. There, thousands of fans who’d filtered over from Sonic Eclipse got to know him as Jadon Shedletsky, 28, “a Game Developer, Industry Visionary, and a bit braggadocious,” as he wrote in his bio. He was the California-based younger brother of Roblox legend John Shedletsky, the platform’s longtime creative director, or so he said. No one knew what Doc really looked like, but he told anyone who asked that he was buff, with blond hair and teal blue eyes.
When he posted a joke about rape, one fan replied, “10/10.” When he called young girls who helped him develop Sonic Eclipse “sex slaves,” it became a running gag. He quipped about being “the old man with kids in his basement.”
Some were also quick to defend his honor in September 2020, when a Sonic Eclipse player posted screenshots on Twitter of a private chat Doc had had with a preteen:
The person who posted the screenshots was one of a group of gamers who’d grown tired of the homophobic, racist and predatory tirades Doc shared on Discord and had started digging into the person behind them.
Gamers speculated that he’d killed himself. Then, a few months later, a player sent an alert on Discord: “Doc finally got arrested.”
Posted below was an article from a New Jersey news site, with the headline: “FBI: Groomed-For-Sex Indiana Girl, 15, Rescued After Paterson Man Pays Uber To Bring Her To NJ.”
Since 2018, police in the US have arrested at least two dozen people accused of abducting or abusing victims they’d met or groomed using Roblox, according to data compiled by Bloomberg Businessweek. Some were already on sex offender registries or had been accused of abusing minors; there were also a sheriff’s deputy, a third-grade teacher and a nurse. In just the past 13 months there have been seven arrests, including those of a man in Florida accused of trying to kidnap a teen he played with on Roblox; a man charged with abducting an 11-year-old New Jersey girl he met on the platform; and a California man who allegedly abused a kid he, too, had met on Roblox. These predators weren’t just lurking outside the world’s biggest virtual playground. They were hanging from the jungle gym, using Robux to lure kids into sending photographs or developing relationships with them that moved to other online platforms and, eventually, offline.
(.....much more at link, gated content)
Doc claimed to be one of the highest-paid developers on Roblox, boasting about it to his community on the chat app Discord. There, thousands of fans who’d filtered over from Sonic Eclipse got to know him as Jadon Shedletsky, 28, “a Game Developer, Industry Visionary, and a bit braggadocious,” as he wrote in his bio. He was the California-based younger brother of Roblox legend John Shedletsky, the platform’s longtime creative director, or so he said. No one knew what Doc really looked like, but he told anyone who asked that he was buff, with blond hair and teal blue eyes.
When he posted a joke about rape, one fan replied, “10/10.” When he called young girls who helped him develop Sonic Eclipse “sex slaves,” it became a running gag. He quipped about being “the old man with kids in his basement.”
Some were also quick to defend his honor in September 2020, when a Sonic Eclipse player posted screenshots on Twitter of a private chat Doc had had with a preteen:
“You’re 12, I expect you to be a little slow on the upbringing, but soon I’ll corrupt you beyond your wildest dreams.”
“Words cannot explain what I want to do with you.”
“You’re the reason why I’m gonna end up behind bars.”
The person who posted the screenshots was one of a group of gamers who’d grown tired of the homophobic, racist and predatory tirades Doc shared on Discord and had started digging into the person behind them.
Gamers speculated that he’d killed himself. Then, a few months later, a player sent an alert on Discord: “Doc finally got arrested.”
Posted below was an article from a New Jersey news site, with the headline: “FBI: Groomed-For-Sex Indiana Girl, 15, Rescued After Paterson Man Pays Uber To Bring Her To NJ.”
Since 2018, police in the US have arrested at least two dozen people accused of abducting or abusing victims they’d met or groomed using Roblox, according to data compiled by Bloomberg Businessweek. Some were already on sex offender registries or had been accused of abusing minors; there were also a sheriff’s deputy, a third-grade teacher and a nurse. In just the past 13 months there have been seven arrests, including those of a man in Florida accused of trying to kidnap a teen he played with on Roblox; a man charged with abducting an 11-year-old New Jersey girl he met on the platform; and a California man who allegedly abused a kid he, too, had met on Roblox. These predators weren’t just lurking outside the world’s biggest virtual playground. They were hanging from the jungle gym, using Robux to lure kids into sending photographs or developing relationships with them that moved to other online platforms and, eventually, offline.
