Hawaii Roblox Lawsuit: What Parents Need to Know

Federal lawsuits alleging that Roblox’s design enabled adult predators to contact and groom children were consolidated in December 2025 into MDL 3166, In re: Roblox Corporation Child Sexual Exploitation and Assault Litigation, before Chief Judge Richard Seeborg in the Northern District of California. As of October 1, 2026, 180 cases are pending , with new cases filed weekly; the litigation is in active discovery, and no ruling has issued on the platforms’ threshold defenses. Families from Hawaii are among the plaintiffs in the filed cases. No court has found Roblox or any other platform liable in these cases, and there is no settlement of families’ individual claims. The federal litigation is in its early stages, and every family’s case depends on its own facts.

What the filed cases allege

The complaints allege that platform features — open chat with strangers, giftable in-game currency, and limited age screening — made it possible for adults to reach children inside games and move contact to less-moderated platforms. The JPML’s transfer order names Roblox Corporation, Discord Inc., Snap Inc., and Meta Platforms, Inc. Roblox and the other platforms dispute the allegations, and the claims remain unproven.

What’s happening in Hawaii

No Hawaii attorney general enforcement action against Roblox had been announced as of October 2026, but at least ten other states have sued and four have settled — and the federal MDL is open to families from every state. Member cases in MDL 3166 are predominantly filed directly in the Northern District of California regardless of a family’s home state, so no public count of Hawaii families exists — direct filing is the standard path.

• 7,441 CyberTipline reports resolved to Hawaii in 2025 (of 1.9 million resolving to a U.S. state). (Source: NCMEC, 2025 CyberTipline Reports by State)
• 33 victims in Hawaii in FBI IC3 complaints carrying the crimes-against-children designation (2025). (Source: FBI IC3 2025 State Report)
• 293,560 children under 18 live in Hawaii. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024)
• 21,351,493 reports to the NCMEC CyberTipline nationally in 2025, including 1,413,347 online-enticement reports — up 158% year over year. (Source: NCMEC 2025 CyberTipline Report)
• 65,381 reports Roblox itself submitted to the NCMEC CyberTipline in 2025 — up from 24,522 in 2024, per Roblox and NCMEC disclosures. (Source: NCMEC 2025 Reports by ESP; Roblox newsroom) Reports and complaints are reports — not verified incidents — and reporting volume reflects detection and reporting practices as much as underlying conduct.

What Hawaii law provides on deadlines

In Hawaii, claims arising from child sexual abuse are governed as follows: A civil action against the person who committed the child sexual abuse must be brought within eight years after the victim’s eighteenth birthday, or within three years of discovery of the causal injury. The statute provides: “shall be commenced against the person who committed the act of sexual abuse more than: (1) Eight years after the eighteenth birthday” (Haw. Rev. Stat. § 657-1.8(a)(1)). Verified against the official statutory text on August 16, 2026. On revival or lookback windows: Hawaii’s revival window is closed — § 657-1.8(b) opened an eight-year window from April 24, 2012 that expired April 24, 2020, and no window is open today. Separately, the deadline rules courts apply to claims against the platforms themselves are contested and may differ from the abuse-claim rules — the characterization of such claims is an open legal question. Whether any individual has a timely claim depends on their circumstances and the law of their state; an attorney licensed in Hawaii can evaluate whether a claim is timely.

How the litigation is progressing

The MDL court entered evidence-preservation orders in August 2026, approved an expert-discovery framework, and is managing bellwether proceedings on the platforms’ arbitration defenses. Since August 2025, at least ten state attorneys general have brought suits over child-safety practices, and four states reached regulatory settlements in 2026. Four states — Nevada, Alabama, West Virginia, and South Dakota — reached settlements with Roblox in 2026 resolving those states’ regulatory claims. Those settlements do not resolve, and do not pay, families’ individual lawsuits. Iowa’s state case is set for trial on November 8, 2027.

Resources for Hawaii parents

Parents researching what happened in a child’s account can consult the platforms’ own data-request processes, the NCMEC CyberTipline (report.cybertip.org) for reporting, and local law enforcement — reporting to authorities does not require an attorney. Hawaii’s Internet Crimes Against Children task force — Hawaii ICAC Task Force, hosted by Hawaii Department of the Attorney General — https://ag.hawaii.gov/hicac — investigates online exploitation of children and accepts tips. Marin & Murphy Law Firm is not licensed in Hawaii; details below. Inquiries from Hawaii residents are referred to attorneys licensed in Hawaii.

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