LAS VEGAS — When Livingston Parish deputies executed a search warrant at a suspect's home, they discovered him actively using voice-changing technology to pose as a teen girl while communicating with a real child online— exactly the crime they had come to arrest him for."He had a 14-year-old girl on the phone, he was basically disguising his voice, and that's what's so scary with these devices out there, these apps, that it will have no consequences," said Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason Ard."And this kid had no idea they were talking to a 40-something-year-old man."Investigators say the suspect was actively on Roblox, an online gaming app popular with children, according to authorities.
And the suspect, a registered sex offender, shouldn't have been using it.That device that we now have in our hands that we give in our children is the white van, right? That is the white van.It is now at your dinner table.
It's now in your bedroom.Roblox says its platform does not include any kind of voice modulation, but the case is part of the state's lawsuit against the game company.'TO CATCH A PREDATOR' HOST CHRIS HANSEN WARNS ROBLOX DANGERS FAR WORSE THAN PAST ONLINE CHATROOMSLouisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is shown alongside the Roblox logo in a split image.(Getty)A statewide crackdown on child sex predators led to the arrest and highlights a disturbing national trend, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill told Fox News Digital last weekend at CrimeCon Las Vegas."This is not a victimless crime," she said.
"There are children who are being victimized to produce pornography that's being traded, and there are children who are getting raped and hurt in a number of ways."Chris Hansen, Michael "Schlep," Liz Murrill and Martin Gould speak on a panel at CrimeCon in Las Vegas on May 29, 2026.(@RenownedPhotos)She described cases where children are lured from their homes hundreds or thousands of miles away before they are rescued.205 ARRESTED IN FBI CHILD SEX OPERATION, P...