A HEARTBROKEN father claims his daughter, 16, took her own life after being groomed by a satanic predator on Roblox.
Penelope Sokolowski took her own life last February after she was recruited into a self-harm group through the game platform beloved by kids.
Jason claims his daughter was approached by a sick predator on RobloxCredit: Courtesy of Jason Sokolowski
Penelope told her dad she had been recruited into a self-harm group through the gameCredit: Courtesy of Jason Sokolowski
When Jason looked through his daughter’s phone he said it was like a ‘crime scene’Credit: Courtesy of Jason Sokolowski
Her father, Jason, alleges his only child was approached by a sick predator through the game and coerced into cutting his name into her chest.
She was then told to send horrific, bloodied images of herself after self-harming.
Roblox has over 111 million users worldwide and it’s estimated that 40 per cent are minors.
Messaging features allow it to function as a social media space where users can chat and create online communities.
Jason, from Vancouver, British Columbia, said the family used a third-party app to monitor Penelope’s online activity.
“We kind of thought we were covering all the bases”, he told the New York Post .
The filmmaker separated from Penelope’s mother and moved out of the family home when his daughter was 13.
Penelope’s grades soon began to plummet and when she was 14 Jason noticed cuts on her arms.
In a gut-wrenching admission, she told her dad she had been recruited into a self-harm group she had met on Roblox.
She said she had moved on, but days later took her own life.
When Jason looked through his daughter’s mobile phone, what he found was like a “crime scene”.
Messages spanning two years showed streams of satanic messages with a person who encouraged her destruction, Jason said.
He believes his beloved daughter was contacted by the predator on Roblox before the chat moved over to Discord – a gaming and group chat platform.
In one message, Penelope sent a photograph of her chest where she appears to respond to someone asking her to cut it.
The message read: “I could but I definitely couldn’t go too deep bc thats tough to bandage n im not tryna get an infection.”
Within minutes she had posted an image showing the predators Discord username sliced into her skin.
Further terrifying images show her cutting “767” into her body.
The FBI has described 767 as a “violent online group” known to groom minors into committing self-harm and violence.
How to get help
EVERY 90 minutes in the UK a life is lost to suicide.
It doesn’t discriminate, touching the lives of people in every corner of society – from the homeless and unemployed to builders and doctors, reality stars and footballers.
It’s the biggest killer of people under the age of 35, more deadly than cancer and car crashes.
And men are three times more likely to take their own life than women.
Yet it’s rarely spoken of, a taboo that threatens to continue its deadly rampage unless we all stop and take notice, now.
If you, or anyone you know, needs help dealing with mental health problems, the following organisations provide support:
- CALM, www.thecalmzone.net , 0800 585 858
- Heads Together, www.headstogether.org.uk
- HUMEN www.wearehumen.org
- Mind, www.mind.org.uk , 0300 123 3393
- Papyrus, www.papyrus-uk.org , 0800 068 41 41
- Samaritans, www.samaritans.org , 116 123
The cult-like members troll platforms like Roblox to pick up victims.
Jason said: “They are grooming girls to do whatever it is they can get a girl to do, whether it’s nudes or cuts or gore or violence.”
It comes after a boy, 14, as he aspired to “die as a martyr” fighting alongside terrorists.
An investigation by Singapore’s Internal Security Department (ISD) found the boy spent up to nine hours a day consuming ISIS-related extremist content online.
And two sisters, 16 and 10, were allegedly lured away from their home in Mexico by a man they met on the online game.
The girls, from Nezahualcóyotl, were missing for 10 days before they were rescued by cops 700 miles away.
Dozens of lawsuits accusing the Roblox Corporation of neglecting to protect minors have been consolidated into one federal case in the US.
The first hearing took place in the Northern District of California on January 31.
The Sun has approached Roblox for comment.
Jason and his daughter PenelopeCredit: Courtesy of Jason Sokolowski
Roblox has over 111 million users worldwide and it’s estimated that 40 per cent are minorsCredit: Getty
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