Jason Sokolowski | 764: A New Terror | Have A Seat ep 25

Have A Seat with Chris Hansen

Chris Hansen

True Crime

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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*This episode contains sensitive material and talk of suicide, audience discretion is advised* In this heartbreaking, shocking and emotionally raw episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen talks with Jason Sokolowski, a Canadian father whose daughter died by suicide in 2025 after being groomed by someone she met on Roblox and was messaging with on Discord. Penelope was just 16-years-old when someone going by the screen name “Culprit”, a member of the vicious online group 764, encouraged her to commit heinous acts, self harm and eventually to take her own life. Today, Penelope’s father Jason speaks out about what he went through in the hopes to educate parents and adults on 764, the online group that prey upon our children to commit horrendous acts of self-harm and violence against themselves and others. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741 Photo CreditInstagram - Jason Sokołowski Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.6	A little more than a year ago, Jason Sokolowski lost his 16-year-old daughter, Penelope, to suicide.
0:48.2	Let's let that sink in for a minute.
0:51.0	16-year-old daughter to suicide.
0:53.6	Why?
0:57.5	We may never know exactly, but we do know that Penelope had been spending time on the app Roblox. And as you know, I've been investigating
1:03.7	Roblox for several months now. We have a documentary coming out of my streaming crime network,
1:08.1	True Blue, later in February. Details on that later. But apparently
1:13.1	Penelope was in communication with people involved in 764. That's the group engaging in
1:20.1	grooming, extortion, self-harm. And that's exactly what these evil people were able to do to Penelope. Jason, Penelope's father, joins me now on
1:31.7	this episode of Have a Seat. Jason, thank you very much for having the time and the courage to come on
1:37.7	and talk about all this. Thanks for having me, Chris. How would you best describe Penelope?
1:45.3	She wasn't a troubled child in any way, right?
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