A 30-year-old man from New Orleans who told police he was a programmer for the kids’ game Roblox is now facing 238 felony charges in a growing child sexual abuse investigation, the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office announced.
Jamie Borne was arrested after a routine compliance check in late February, where probation officers visited Borne’s home on St. Andrew Street and found a child-sized sex doll in his bedroom in plain view. When asked to explain the doll, Borne told officers that he was very lonely, per NOLA.com. Officers on the scene then immediately contacted Homeland Security Investigations and the Louisiana State Police.
Investigators seized 11 items from Borne’s home, including two laptops, four external hard drives, a USB drive, and three cell phones. He was initially booked on February 27 on a child sex doll charge, then again on March 17 on 40 counts of child sexual abuse material involving children under age 13. The investigation, and Borne’s crime spree, didn’t stop there. On March 31, Borne was rebooked on 195 additional counts of child sexual abuse material involving prepubescent children, plus two counts of sexual abuse of an animal.
According to the arrest warrant, approximately 195 files of child sexual abuse material were recovered from a single hard drive that Borne owned.
Borne is also carrying a probation hold from a prior guilty plea to aggravated assault with a dangerous weapon and illegal discharge of weapons, and – as of press time – is being held in Orleans Parish jail (Inmate ID: 011616045). Attorney General Murrill issued a quick statement simply saying that her office will fully prosecute the disturbing case, and that anyone who possesses child sexual abuse materials will face “Louisiana justice.”
Police later confirmed that Borne was a contributing programmer on the Roblox gaming platform, though the company had previously denied that he was a “direct employee.”
A statement from the company obtained by WBRZ News reads: “Roblox’s platform allows people unaffiliated with the company to build experiences that are governed by our robust community standards. We currently have more than 2 million creators using our technology to build. We have deactivated his experiences and banned his accounts in accordance with our off platform behavior policy in our community standards.”
Roblox’s Predator Problem: A Platform Under Fire
The recent Borne case comes at a time when the world is increasingly confronting Roblox over its inability to keep tens of millions of children safe on its platform.
As of December 2025, Roblox reported over 151 million daily active users, with over two-thirds of them under 16.
Since 2018, at least two dozen people in the United States have been arrested on charges of abducting or sexually abusing children they groomed through Roblox, per Bloomberg. And reports to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children connected to the Roblox platform surged from 675 incidents in 2019 to more than 24,000 documented cases in 2024.
A quick search using the term “Roblox” on the Department of Justice website pulls in dozens of other high-profile arrests connected to kidnapping, assault, rape, the production of child abuse materials, and even terroristic threats within the past few years alone.
Investigations in 2024 even exposed a predator network called “764” that used Roblox and Discord to coerce children into producing sexual and self-harm materials across the U.S., Germany, and Romania – a network the FBI has since labeled as a transnational predator threat.
In a 2025 press release, the DOJ described how the 764 use “online social media communications platforms as mediums to support the possession, production, and sharing of extreme gore media and child sex abuse material with vulnerable, juvenile populations.” Adding that “these individuals often conduct coordinated extortions of teenagers, blackmailing the victims to comply with the group’s demands.”
State governments have even had to take action against the Roblox team. As of March 2026, at least seven states have filed lawsuits against Roblox, with Louisiana leading the way in August 2025, alleging that the platform operates without meaningful age-verification or parental-consent requirements. Kentucky, Nebraska, Tennessee, Texas, and others have followed suit with their own lawsuits, while the Georgia attorney general’s office has also initiated an investigation into Roblox and its development team.
“We cannot allow platforms like Roblox to continue operating as digital playgrounds for predators where the well-being of our kids is sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed,” said Attorney General Paxton (R-TX). “Roblox must do more to protect kids from sick and twisted freaks hiding behind a screen.
“Our children are not safe on Roblox. Predators and criminals aren’t just lurking in the platform’s shadows; they’ve been allowed to commit their crimes out in the open,” added Attorney General Coleman (R-KY). “For years, Roblox has ignored this crisis so it could continue turning a profit.”
In response to mounting criticism, Roblox has rolled out new safety features in recent years, like its improved parental controls and updated “facial recognition-based age verification.” Many parents, however, say the changes are too little and too late, and still insufficient to keep their children safe online.