Gaming platform Roblox is arguing that an 8-year-old girl gave up her right to sue the company by clicking “I agree” on its terms of service, according to court filings in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by her mother. The girl tragically took her own life at just 13 year old after being introduced to dark and violent subcultures on Roblox, TikTok, and Discord.
The Louisville Courier Journal reports that Jaimee Seitz filed the lawsuit in October 2025 in federal court in the Eastern District of Kentucky, alleging her daughter, Audree Heine, was exposed to “harmful and violent influences” on Roblox after joining the platform at age eight, despite parental controls Seitz says she had set on the account. Audree also used Discord and TikTok to communicate with other Roblox users, and the suit names both companies as defendants alongside Roblox.
Audree tragically died by suicide in December 2024, one week after her 13th birthday. According to the lawsuit, investigators later found a journal in her school locker showing she had been introduced to a community that glorified a mass school shooter and other violent ideologies through her interactions on Roblox, Discord, and TikTok.
Roblox, Discord and TikTok have each asked the court to dismiss the claims. Roblox also filed a motion to compel arbitration, arguing that Audree and her parents waived her right to a trial no fewer than 28 times, including by creating her account, accepting six updates to Roblox’s terms, redeeming gift cards twice, and buying the platform’s virtual currency, Robux, 19 times. “Roblox made the Terms plain and Audree repeatedly manifested her assent, as courts have routinely held in examining similar agreements and as the one at issue here,” the company’s attorneys wrote.
Seitz disputed that argument in comments to the Courier Journal. “So let’s be serious about an argument that if my child clicking a tiny ‘I agree’ box somehow means she knowingly agreed to arbitration,” she said. “She was a child, she didn’t understand arbitration. She didn’t understand contracts. She didn’t understand what the little box could mean years later. But now they want a court to treat that click as though an 8-year-old knowingly negotiated away her right to have these issues heard. It’s insulting.”
Alex Walsh, an attorney representing Seitz, said Roblox’s filing seeks to move the case into a “secret arbitration process” rather than a jury trial. “Why would the companies want that? For a very simple reason,” Walsh said. “They do not want the truth about how dangerous their platforms are to come out. They don’t want there to be a light shined on what they’ve done wrong and how many children have been harmed.”
Discord also argues Audree agreed to arbitration at least five times through the app’s terms, and claims she is partly bound because she entered an adult birthdate when she registered at age 8. TikTok’s filing states that most of the complaint’s allegations “address the platform generally and do not mention Audree.” Neither Roblox nor TikTok provided comment for this story. A Discord spokesperson said the company requires users to be at least 13 and uses “advanced technology and trained safety teams to proactively find and remove content that violates our policies,” adding that its Family Center gives parents tools “to help their teen have a safer experience online while maintaining privacy.”
Walsh said Audree’s case is one of more than 150 currently pending against Roblox, with 10 law firms pursuing mass tort claims in the Northern District of California. His firm, Anapol Weiss, is reviewing more than 1,000 additional claims nationwide.
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Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of AI, free speech, and online censorship.
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