Roblox Says an 8-Year-Old's Click Waived Her Family's Right to Sue Over Her Death

Roblox wants a wrongful death lawsuit over a 13-year-old's suicide moved out of court and into private arbitration, arguing the girl waived her right to sue when she clicked "I agree" on the platform's terms of service at age 8.

Jaimee Seitz filed the lawsuit in October 2025 in federal court in the Eastern District of Kentucky, according to the Louisville Courier Journal. She alleges her daughter, Audree Heine, was exposed to "harmful and violent influences" on Roblox after joining the platform at age 8, despite parental controls Seitz says she had set up. Audree also used Discord and TikTok to talk with other Roblox users, and both companies are named as defendants.

Audree 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 drawn into an online community that glorified a mass school shooter, along with other violent ideologies, through interactions on Roblox, Discord and TikTok, minnlawyer reported.

The arbitration argument

Roblox filed a motion to compel arbitration, arguing Audree and her parents waived her right to a jury trial 28 separate times. The company's court filing lists 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, according to the Courier Journal.

Seitz rejected that framing directly. "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 told the Courier Journal. "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 the motion is really about keeping the case out of public view. "Why would the companies want that?" Walsh said. "For a very simple reason. 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 and TikTok's separate defenses

Discord is also seeking dismissal, arguing Audree agreed to arbitration at least five times and is partly bound to the terms because she entered an adult birthdate when she registered at age 8, despite Discord's rule requiring users to be at least 13. A Discord spokesperson told minnlawyer and Yahoo News the company requires all users to be 13 or older and has "strong systems intended to prevent the spread of sexual exploitation and grooming."

TikTok's filing argues most of the lawsuit's allegations address the platform generally and don't specifically mention Audree, and separately claims it did not "proximately cause" her death, according to Yahoo News. Roblox has also argued that if the case proceeds at all, it should move forward with only "limited discovery." Roblox, TikTok, and their attorneys did not provide comment for the Courier Journal's reporting.

Context that matters

This is not an isolated dispute. minnlawyer reported more than 150 similar lawsuits are pending against Roblox in federal court, and thegamer put the number above 100, over child safety failures on the platform. Roblox, valued around $41 billion, allows children under 9 to create accounts, and at the time Audree signed up there was no email or phone verification required at all, according to Kotaku.

wegotthiscovered noted a comparable arbitration fight from 2024, when Disney's lawyers argued a Disney+ trial signup barred a widower from suing over his wife's fatal allergic reaction at a Disney resort. That case drew national backlash before Disney backed off the arbitration argument. wegotthiscovered also flagged that the California Supreme Court previously overturned forced arbitration in a separate child exploitation case against Roblox, meaning there is precedent working against the company's position, though whether that ruling controls in Kentucky federal court is unresolved.

The legal argument Roblox is actually making, separate from how it sounds, hinges on established contract law. Courts do regularly enforce clickwrap agreements against adults, and companies routinely argue that a parent's or guardian's acceptance of terms on a child's behalf can bind that account. Roblox's filing leans on the fact that Seitz, an adult, set up and managed the account, not solely on Audree's own click. Whether that argument holds up against an 8-year-old user is exactly what the Kentucky federal court will now have to decide.

No court has ruled on the arbitration motion. No trial date has been set. Discord, TikTok and Roblox have each filed separate motions to dismiss the underlying claims, meaning the case could end well before a jury ever hears it, regardless of how the arbitration question is resolved.