Penelope Sokolowski was just 16 years old when she took her own life last February.
Her father, Jason, believes her suicide was the culmination of a grooming process that began on Roblox, the game platform beloved by kids — with some 170,000 users under the age of 13, according to company data from 2023.
“We kind of thought we were covering all the bases,” Jason told The Post, noting that his family had used a third-party app to monitor Penelope’s online activity.
Jason alleges that his only child was contacted by a predator on Roblox who coerced her into cutting his name into her chest and sending videos of herself bloodied from self-harm — and who, ultimately, sent Penelope down a spiral that culminated in her death.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2026/02/06/us-news/dad-claims-daughter-16-took-life-after-meeting-a-predator-on-roblox/
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