Girl, 11, LURED OUT OF HOME BY GROWN MAN, VIDEO GAME ROBLOX

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

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🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

An 11-year-old girl’s brother thinks his sister is leaving for school, but it's 5:30 in the morning.

Then the boy realizes that it's Sunday. He calls his mother, who is working overnights. Mom comes home and calls the Wayne Police Department.

The mom tells police this is not the first time the girl has gone missing. A missing person's report was filed in June, but the 11-year-old returned 90 minutes later, telling her mother that she had met up with a man named Darius, whom, she had been talking to on the online game platform Roblox.

The girl was grounded after the incident, and access to the online platforms was taken away, but as North Jersey.com reports, the mother now thinks the girl may have used other family members' phones to continue to communicate with 27-year-old Darius Matylewich.

When he was contacted by the police, Matylewich denied knowing the girl's whereabouts. Finally, Matylewich admitted to picking up the girl and driving her back across the state line to his home in Bear, Delaware, 135 miles away from Wayne, New Jersey. Darius Matylewich is charged with first-degree kidnapping and third-degree endangering the welfare of a child.

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

Fran Longwell – Former Deputy State’s Attorney, Former Assistant State’s Attorney (specializing in child abuse, sex offenses and homicides)
Dr. Shari Schwartz– Forensic Psychologist (specializing in Capital Mitigation and Victim Advocacy); Twitter: @TrialDoc; Author: “Criminal Behavior” and “Where Law and Psychology Intersect: Issues in Legal Psychology”
Barry Golden - Former Senior Inspector for the U.S. Marshals Service, Owner of Golden Consulting and Investigations
Titania Jordan – Chief Parent Officer, Bark Parental Controls; Author: “Parenting In A Tech World;” Instagram/Twitter: @TitaniaJordan
William Slater – Cybersecurity Expert and Chief Information Security Officer at Slater Technologies. Inc.
Alexis Tereszcuk - CrimeOnline.com Investigative Reporter, Writer/Fact Checker at Lead Stories; Twitter: @swimmie2009

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0:00.0	A Little Girl, just 11 years old, just turned 11, kidnapped by a grown man.
0:23.5	She meets online, playing Roblox.
0:28.5	Why someplace Roblox?
0:31.5	All over the world, tweens and teens, play Roblox.
0:37.3	How in the hay did he get his mitts on an 11 year old, a grown man?
0:45.7	Number one, what is he doing playing Roblox?
0:48.7	Shouldn't he have a job?
0:50.5	But number two, is he chatting this little girl up online and lowering her?
0:57.8	Well it worked, because he kidnapped her.
1:01.7	I need to see Grace, this is Crime Stories.
1:04.1	Thank you for being with us here on Crime Stories and on Series XM 111, first of all, how
1:11.3	did it go down?
1:12.3	Listen.
1:13.3	It was an odd and early start to the school day, an 11 year old girl's brother thinks his
1:17.4	sister is leaving for school early, it's around 5.30 in the morning.
1:21.5	But then the boy realized it was Sunday.
1:24.5	He calls his mother who is working overnight.
1:26.8	Mom comes home, calls the Wayne Police Department.
1:30.0	Interesting, very interesting, so this is a Sunday.
1:34.4	He thinks it's a school day, and at 5.30 AM, the little sister is already gone.
1:45.2	And this boy, the brother, of course, calls mommy.
1:50.0	Little did they know that Sunday morning at 5.30 AM.
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