Roblox Facing Criminal Investigation! | Uthmeier | Have A Seat

Have A Seat with Chris Hansen

Chris Hansen

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🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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For this episode of Have a Seat with Chris Hansen, Chris travels to Tallahassee, Florida for a candid and in-depth interview with Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier regarding his offices recent criminal charges against the online gaming platform Roblox. Uthmeier provides insight into the investigation and how Roblox is choosing profit over protecting kids by allowing sexual predators to access, communicate and groom underaged children. According to the Office of the Florida Attorney General press release, the subpoenas will investigate whether Roblox’s actions, or lack thereof, are aiding in predators accessing and harming children and look into predators that are utilizing the platform’s in-game currency ‘Robux’ to bribe minors into sending sexually explicit images. If you’ve been following Hansen’s investigation into Roblox, this is an episode you won’t want to miss. *Video courtesy of the Florida Attorney General’s Office Home Title Lock: Go to https://hometitlelock.com/chrishansen and use promo code HANSEN to get a FREE title history report and a FREE TRIAL of their Triple Lock Protection! For details visit https://hometitlelock.com/warranty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Based on the worldwide best-selling novel.
0:02.0	Why do you want this job?
0:03.0	I really enjoy being a housemaid. This Christmas. Would you like the Grand Tora? See what you're getting yourself into? Discover what lies. I don't know what's been going on with her lately. Behind closed doors. I need this job. I do not want to go back. Sydney Sweeney. You'd lie it about everything. Amanda Seifred. What kind of monsters are we?
0:23.0	I want you to feel scary. back. Sydney Sweeney. You'd lie it about everything. Amanda Seifred.
0:23.0	What kind of monsters are we?
0:25.4	I want you to feel safe here.
0:26.4	The House Maid.
0:27.9	In Cinema's Everywhere, Boxing Day.
0:45.8	See it first with previews from December 22. As you know, I've been investigating the online gaming platform Roblox. There have been thousands and thousands of allegations of predators grooming children
0:52.1	on this platform, paying them through Robux, the platform's
0:57.0	currency to do things, provide things. It really has been a playground for predators in many ways.
1:06.0	Now, Roblox itself has said it is initiating security measures to protect children on its platform.
1:13.8	But remember, this platform is marketed, geared, created expressly for children.
1:20.1	Children as young as four and five years old.
1:23.0	And now, at least four attorneys general in the United States have filed legal action against Roblox, Louisiana and Texas, Kentucky, and Florida.
1:40.6	Florida has actually initiated a criminal investigation. They've issued subpoenas.
1:46.0	And recently for a larger documentary we're producing about child safety on Roblox, I interviewed the Florida Attorney General James Uthmeyer.
1:57.0	And he really distills the issues here.
2:04.8	And he takes issue with some of the things Roblox has been saying in its own defense.
2:12.3	Take a look.
2:13.4	This is Attorney General James Uthmire.
2:16.0	Today our office will be issuing criminal subpoenas to the online children's gaming company Roblox.
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